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Saturday, September 30, 2023

The Anu Museum and the Codex Sassoon

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IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM AND THAT'S WHERE IT IS: Inside the new home of the Codex Sassoon - the world's oldest Hebrew bible. The Anu ...

Editionen und Studien zum Testamentum Salomonis (Mohr Siebeck)

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NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK: Editionen und Studien zum Testamentum Salomonis. Herausgegeben von Felix Albrecht unter Mitarbeit von Jan Dochh...
Friday, September 29, 2023

Sukkot 2023

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THE SEVEN-DAY FESTIVAL OF SUKKOT (BOOTHS, TABERNACLES) begins tonight at sundown. Best wishes to all those observing it. Last year's S...

Did Eve give Adam an etrog?

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FOR SUKKOT: The Etrog: Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil (Prof.Rachel Adelman, TheTorah.com). The etrog tree, according to mi...

Sukkot sifting prize

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THE TEMPLE MOUNT SIFTING PROJECT BLOG: SUKKOT AT THE TEMPLE MOUNT SIFTING PROJECT . This Sukkot holiday we will be raffling off (at no extra...
Thursday, September 28, 2023

Hyrcania excavation yields a 6th-century Greek Psalms quote

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GREEK EPIGRAPHY: Byzantine Greek Inscription Of Psalms 86 Found In Hyrcania: Unearthing Ancient Faith. A rare inscription paraphrasing part...

More on that courtesan's tomb

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UPDATE: Israeli Archaeologists May Have Found First-ever Grave of Hetaira From Time of Alexander the Great. Buried 2,300 years ago on the r...

On writing about demons

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: AJR Conversations | Writing about Demons. by Sara Ronis and Travis Proctor in Articles . S: Yeah. So, for the Rabbis, ...

Boyes (ed.), ... The Social Context of Writing Practices in Late Bronze Age Ugarit (Oxbow, open access)

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NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS: Script and Society The Social Context of Writing Practices in Late Bronze Age Ugarit Philip J. Boyes (Editor) ...
Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Ancient courtesan's tomb excavated near Jerusalem

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FUNERARY SPELUNIC ARCHAEOLOGY: Archeologists 'for first time' unearth tomb of Ancient Greek hetaira courtesan. Discovered alongside...

Greek oracles and biblical prophets

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SEERS, DIVINERS, AND PROPHETS: Ancient Greek Oracles vs Jewish Prophets (Philip Chrysopoulos, Greek Reporter). An interesting and fairly in...

A sorcerer's cache on the road to Mecca?

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Magic on the Road to Mecca. Cache of Ottoman period ritual objects discovered in Eilat (Nathan Steinmeyer). Every ...
Tuesday, September 26, 2023

An inscription fragment related to King Hezekiah? Caution urged.

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NORTHWEST SEMITIC EPIGRAPHY: King Hezekiah's riddle: Has the ancient royal inscription finally been cracked? Using advanced tech, Israe...

Review of Strange, Excavating the Land of Jesus

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READING ACTS: James Riley Strange, Excavating the Land of Jesus (Phil Long). Strange, James Riley. Excavating the Land of Jesus: How Archae...

Paul within Judaism (Mohr Siebeck; open access)

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NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK: Paul within Judaism. Perspectives on Paul and Jewish Identity. Edited by Michael Bird, Ruben A. Bühner, Jörg F...
Monday, September 25, 2023

When did the Qumran sectarians observe the Day of Atonement?

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FOR YOM KIPPUR: First recorded evidence of Yom Kippur depicts day of affliction as sectarian struggle. Prof. Yonatan Adler, author of ‘The ...

Horvat Midras

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THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST TODAY: Horvat Midras (Israel): A Window into Socio-Religious Change in Rural Roman Palestine (Orit Peleg-Barkat and G...

On Moses' and Pharaoh's horns

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Moses as Pharaoh’s Equal—Horns and All (Gary A. Rendsburg). In these two passages, Moses, the prophet par excellence, ...
Sunday, September 24, 2023

Yom Kippur 2023

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YOM KIPPUR , the Day of Atonement, begins this evening at sundown. An easy and healthy fast to all those observing it. Last year's po...

Shifting sifting soil in Jerusalem

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THE TEMPLE MOUNT SIFTING PROJECT BLOG: A GLIMPSE INTO THE DIFFICULTIES OF CONDUCTING ARCHAEOLOGY IN JERUSALEM . Three weeks ago, we transfer...