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Saturday, May 13, 2023

Chatting in Aramaic at the Coronation

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ARAMAIC WATCH: The Coronation smalltalk? It was in Aramaic, reveals rabbi Dweck. The Senior Rabbi of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews’ Congr...

10 artifacts in the Bible Lands Museum

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: 10 Great Biblical Artifacts at the Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem. Artifacts and the Bible (David Moster). This essa...
Friday, May 12, 2023

A peer-review article on the Mount Ebal tablet

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PUBLICATION: Scholars Expound on Mount Ebal Curse Tablet with Oldest Hebrew Text (Etgar Lefkovits, The Jewish Press). (JNS) A lead tablet f...
Thursday, May 11, 2023

Review of Cotton, Roman rule and Jewish life

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Roman rule and Jewish life: collected papers . Hannah M. Cotton, Ofer Pogorelsky, Roman rule and Jewish life: co...

On publishing unprovenanced artifacts

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: To Publish or Not to Publish? This is No Longer the Question (Morag M. Kersel). The debate over how, if at a...
Wednesday, May 10, 2023

Funding approved for development of Samaria/Sebastia

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RENOVATION: Israel to turn biblical Sebastia into archaeological park. The capital of the northern Kingdom of Israel will be preserved and ...

Shootings near the Djerba synagogue in Tunisia

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VIOLENCE: 4 killed in shooting near Lag Ba'omer fest at ancient synagogue in Tunisia. Thousands of Jewish pilgrims arrive to the island...
Tuesday, May 09, 2023

Lag B'Omer 2023

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LAG B'OMER , the 33rd day of the Counting of the Omer , began last night at sundown. Best wishes to all observing it. My 2022 Lag B...

Introduction to Carbon-14 dating

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TECHNOLOGY WATCH: Carbon-14 dating, explained (Steve Koppes and Louise Lerner, UChicago News). Radiocarbon dating, or carbon-14 dating, is ...
Monday, May 08, 2023

Schwartz, 1 Maccabees (AB; Yale)

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NEW BOOK FROM YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS: 1 Maccabees A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary by Daniel R. Schwartz Series: ...

Codex Sassoon going on display in New York

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FOR SALE: The world’s oldest Hebrew Bible will be publicly displayed in NYC. The Codex Sassoon has a long and mysterious history but remain...
Sunday, May 07, 2023

Elgvin, Warrior, King, Servant, Savior (Eerdmans)

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NEW BOOK FROM EERDMANS: Warrior, King, Servant, Savior Messianism in the Hebrew Bible and Early Jewish Texts Torleif Elgvin HARDCOV...

Archaeology of Mind in the Hebrew Bible (De Gruyter, open access)

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NEW BOOK FROM DE GRUYTER: Archaeology of Mind in the Hebrew Bible / Archäologie alttestamentlichen Denkens Edited by: Andreas Wagner , J...
Saturday, May 06, 2023

The Coronation

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THE CORONATION OF KING CHARLES III today has roots in ancient Israelite and ancient Near Eastern traditions, with many fascinating and somet...
Friday, May 05, 2023

More on the Negev wine grapes

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ANCIENT VITICULTURE: Modern Israeli grapes linked to grapes in the Bible - study. The seeds were found at archaeological excavations led by...

Llewellyn-Jones, Ancient Persia and the Book of Esther (Bloomsbury)

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BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: Ancient Persia and the Book of Esther . Notice of a New Book: Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd. 2023. Ancient Persia and the Bo...

Bay, Biblical Heroes and Classical Culture in Christian Late Antiquity (CUP)

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NEW BOOK FROM CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS: Biblical Heroes and Classical Culture in Christian Late Antiquity The Historiography, Exemplari...
Thursday, May 04, 2023

An Akkadian translation algorithm

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ALGORITHM WATCH: Israeli experts create AI to translate ancient cuneiform text - study Researchers at Tel Aviv University (TAU) and Ariel U...

Power, The Significance of Linguistic Diversity in the Hebrew Bible (Mohr Siebeck)

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NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK: Cian Power. The Significance of Linguistic Diversity in the Hebrew Bible. Language and Boundaries of Self and O...

SBL review panel on Carlson, Unfamiliar Selves; Carlson responds

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW has published another essay in its SBL review-panel series on Reed Carlson's book, Unfamiliar Selves in the Hebrew Bi...