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Saturday, May 20, 2023

Yarbro Collins, Collected Essays on the Gospel According to Mark (Mohr Siebeck)

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NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK: Adela Yarbro Collins. Collected Essays on the Gospel According to Mark. 2023. VI, 342 pages. Wissenschaftliche ...
Friday, May 19, 2023

Codex Sassoon sold for $38.1M, is going to Israel

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SOLD! Codex Sassoon, oldest near-complete Hebrew Bible, purchased for $38.1 million. Rare, 1,100-year-old manuscript to be displayed at ANU...

On the Lachish Letters

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: The Lachish Letters. A Judahite archive from the First Temple period (Nathan Steinmeyer). The Lachish Letters are a c...
Thursday, May 18, 2023

Schiffman on ancient synagogues

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PROF. LAWRENCE H. SCHIFFMAN: CLUES FROM THE PAST: THE RUINS OF ANCIENT SYNAGOGUES REVEAL SECRETS THAT EXPLAIN OUR TRADITIONS . This repr...

On the Queen of Sheba legend

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AUDIO (but with a substantial article too): The shapeshifting Queen of Sheba: legends, facts and fictions. Ideas about gender and power hav...
Wednesday, May 17, 2023

More inscriptions in ‘Atiqot

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EPIGRAPHIC NEWS: This post is a follow-up to the immediately preceding one, Rock receipt recovered on the Pilgrimage Road . It was about an ...

Rock receipt recovered on the Pilgrimage Road

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LAPIDARY NORTHWEST SEMITIC EPIGRAPHY: 2,000-Year-Old Financial Record Unearthed on Jerusalem’s Pilgrimage Road. The discovery sheds light o...
Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Seminar on Comparative Approaches to Apocalyptic Literature (c. 600-c. 900)

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H-JUDAIC: EVENT: Comparative Approaches to Apocalyptic Literature In Judaism, Islam and Christianity (c. 600-c. 900) . The event takes pl...

Looting arrests at Roman-era caves in northern Israel

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APPREHENDED: Antiquities robbers caught red-handed looting Roman-era caves. The site in question contained artifacts that are approximately...
Monday, May 15, 2023

Skepticism concerning the Mount Ebal Tablet

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REACTION: Academic article on controversial 3,200-year-old ‘curse tablet’ fails to sway experts. Year after team hails bombshell discovery ...

Marble shipwreck cargo found by Israeli swimmer

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SERENDIPITIOUS SCULPTURE SIGHTING: Ancient Roman-era marble cargo shipwreck found by Israeli beachgoer. The cargo shipment of marble items ...
Sunday, May 14, 2023

Review of Invitation to Syriac Christianity: an anthology

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Invitation to Syriac Christianity: an anthology . Michael Philip Penn, Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, Christine Shepa...

BAS 2023 Dig Scholarship Winners

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: 2023 Dig Scholarship Winners. Congratulating BAS’s 2023 Scholarship Winners . Yes, congratulations to the winners! Vis...
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...