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Saturday, May 27, 2023

Sims-Williams et al., A Manichaean Prayer and Confession Book (Brepols)

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NEW BOOK FROM BREPOLS PUBLISHER: A Manichaean Prayer and Confession Book Nicholas Sims-Williams, John S. Sheldon, Zsuzsanna Gulacsi Pag...
Friday, May 26, 2023

Forgotten Shavuot History

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FOR SHAVUOT: Forgotten Shavuot History: The 4 B.C.E Rebellion and the Therapeutae (Prof. Martin Goodman, TheTorah.com). The Shavuot rebelli...
Thursday, May 25, 2023

Shavuot 2023

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THE FESTIVAL OF SHAVUOT (Weeks, Pentecost) begins tonight at sundown. Best wishes to all those celebrating. Last year's Shavuot post...

A second Baron Award for Emanuel Tov

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RECOGNITION: Emanuel Tov wins second Baron Award. For Scholarly Excellence in Research of the Jewish Experience (University of Vienna). To...
Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Roman-era burial cave destroyed by house-building

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CUTTING CORNERS CAN BE COSTLY: Family building a house in northern Israel destroys 1,800-year-old burial cave. Inspectors raid construction...

Cyril and Methodius Day: the earliest known Cyrillic text?

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OLD CHURCH SLAVONIC WATCH: 1,100-year-old breastplate to ward off evil may contain the oldest Cyrillic writing ever found. An inscription o...
Tuesday, May 23, 2023

A page number in a Psalms codex

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VARIANT READINGS: A Book of Psalms and a Missing Page Number (Brent Nongbri). Not so missing after all? Cross-file under Codicology. Visit ...

In memory of Moshe Greenberg

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DR. ALEX SINCLAIR: Moshe Greenberg: A Spiritual Critical Bible Scholar (TheTorah.com). At the heart of the life and career of Moshe Greenbe...
Monday, May 22, 2023

Musical Proto-Semitic?

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MUSIC MEETS PHILOLOGY: Israeli artist brings ancient language back to life in song. Dor Zlekha Levy's One Tongue audiovisual project re...
Sunday, May 21, 2023

The not-so-secret Jewish treasures in the Vatican Library

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PROFESSOR LAWRENCE H. SCHIFFMAN: WHAT’S REALLY IN THE VATICAN LIBRARY? Disspelling some misconconceptions about the Vatican’s collections o...
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 ...