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Saturday, August 12, 2023

Ritual baths in the Land of Israel

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PURIFICATION ARCHITECTURE: Immerse yourself in the Holy Land’s history by visiting these ancient ritual baths. Essential to Jewish religiou...
Friday, August 11, 2023

Perseus publishes Philo

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PERSEUS DIGITAL LIBRARY UPDATES: Philo of Alexandria, Translations, and Perseus the Next Thirty Years (Gregory Crane). HT Rogue Classicism ...
Thursday, August 10, 2023

Essays on the Psalms of Solomon (Mohr Siebeck)

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NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK: Essays on the Psalms of Solomon Its Cultural Background, Significance, and Interpretation. Edited by Kenneth At...
Wednesday, August 09, 2023

Rogan, Purity in the Gospel of John (T&T Clark)

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NEW BOOK FROM BLOOMSBURY/T&T CLARK: Purity in the Gospel of John Early Jewish Tradition, Christology, and Ethics Wil Rogan...
Tuesday, August 08, 2023

Henze & Lincicum (eds.), Israel's Scriptures in Early Christian Writings (Eerdmans)

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NEW BOOK FROM EERDMANS: Israel's Scriptures in Early Christian Writings The Use of the Old Testament in the New Matthias Henze an...
Monday, August 07, 2023

Ship-protection talisman found near Israeli beach

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ANOTHER APOTROPAIC ARTIFACT: A rare 2,500-year-old marble disc, designed to protect ancient ships and ward off the evil eye discovered near ...
Sunday, August 06, 2023

Rhetorical poetics of the Aramaic incantation bowls

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THE AWOL BLOG: 'I Descended to the Depths of the Earth': A Rhetorical Poetics of the Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Incantation Bowls . A...
Saturday, August 05, 2023

Which Ten Commandments? And whose?

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PROF. J. CORNELIS DE VOS: Adapting the Decalogue to Your Religion (TheTorah.com). Jewish Greek philosophy, the New Testament, Christian the...
Friday, August 04, 2023

Demon-repellant magic mirror excavated at Usha?

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APOTROPAIC ARTIFACT: Israeli High-schooler on Day Dig Finds Mirror Plaque Against Demons. The broken artifact found in northern Israel is m...
Thursday, August 03, 2023

Biblical Studies Carnival 208

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READING ACTS: Biblical Studies Carnival 208 for June and July 2023 . Phil Long has a consolidated carnival for the two months. Visit PaleoJu...
Wednesday, August 02, 2023

Tu B'Av 2023

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THE FESTIVAL OF TU B'AV began yesterday evening at sundown. Best wishes to all those celebrating. Tu B'Av (which just means the 15...

More on the Megiddo amphitheater

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ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE: Archaeologists Find Roman Military Amphitheater in Israel, With Blood-red Walls. The Roman legion camp next door to T...
Tuesday, August 01, 2023

Fiano, Three Powers in Heaven (Yale)

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NEW BOOK FROM YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS: Three Powers in Heaven The Emergence of Theology and the Parting of the Ways by Emanuel Fiano ...
Monday, July 31, 2023

Reinhartz Festschrift (T&T Clark)

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NEW BOOK FROM BLOOMSBURY/T&T CLARK: The Ties that Bind Negotiating Relationships in Early Jewish and Christian Texts, Contexts, ...
Sunday, July 30, 2023

Eskenazi, Ezra (AB Commentary)

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NEW BOOK FROM YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS: Ezra A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary by Tamara Cohn Eskenazi Series: ...
Saturday, July 29, 2023

Docherty & Smith (eds.), The Scriptures in the Book of Revelation and Apocalyptic Literature (T&T Clark)

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NEW BOOK FROM BLOOMSBURY (T&T CLARK): The Scriptures in the Book of Revelation and Apocalyptic Literature Essays in Honour of Steve M...
Friday, July 28, 2023

There was almost a third Temple?

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BELATEDLY FOR TISHA B'AV: How the Jews almost built a Third Temple. Roman Emperor Julian, who rejected Christianity and possibly sought...

Nero's theatre found in Rome?

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ARCHAEOLOGY: Ruins of ancient Roman emperor Nero's theater unearthed in 'exceptional' discovery in Rome. Archaeologists in Rome...
Thursday, July 27, 2023

Archaeomagnetic reconstruction of a fire in ancient Jerusalem

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TECHNOLOGY WATCH: Examination of ancient pottery shards reveals how a building burned during siege of Jerusalem in 586 BCE (Bob Yirka, Phys...

Mason, Jews and Christians in the Roman World (Brill)

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: Jews and Christians in the Roman World From Historical Method to Cases Series: Ancient Judaism and Early Christian...