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Saturday, October 14, 2023

Alexandria's Graeco-Roman Museum reopens

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RENOVATION: Renowned Graeco-Roman Museum in Alexandria has finally reopened. The renowned Graeco-Roman Museum in Alexandria has finally reo...

Kókai-Nagy & Vér (eds.), Peace and War in Josephus (De Gruyter)

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NEW BOOK FROM DE GRUYTER: Peace and War in Josephus Edited by: Viktor Kókai-Nagy and Ádám Vér Volume 52 in the series Deuterocanonica...

Middlemas, Innovation in Persian Period Judah (Mohr Siebeck)

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BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: Innovation in Persian Period Judah . Notice of a New Book: Middlemas, Jill. 2023. Innovation in Persian Period Judah:...
Friday, October 13, 2023

Vesuvius Challenge: we have the first winner

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TECHNOLOGY CONTEST: AI reads text from ancient Herculaneum scroll for the first time. Machine-learning technique reveals Greek words in CT ...

How lost was the Gospel of Thomas and for how long?

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NEW TESTAMENT APOCRYPHA WATCH: The Long, Long, Afterlife of the Gospel of Thomas (Philip Jenkins, The Anxious Bench). In my 2015 book The M...

Lieber on Lieber, Staging the Sacred

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Backstage with Staging the Sacred (Laura Lieber). My new book, Staging the Sacred: Theatricality and Performance in Lat...
Thursday, October 12, 2023

Professor Mary Smallwood, 1919-2023

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OBITUARY: Classics professor known for work on Romano-Jewish history (Kay Smith, The Herald, Scotland). HT Rogue Classicism . Mary Smallwoo...

Wilson-Wright, Jeremiah’s Egypt (SBL)

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NEW BOOK FROM SBL PRESS: Jeremiah’s Egypt: Prophetic Reflections on the Saite Period Aren M. Wilson-Wright ISBN 9781628374629 Volume...

Arch of Titus illuminated with Israeli flag

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STATEMENT OF SUPPORT: Arch of Titus, Roman landmark celebrating ancient destruction of Jerusalem, lit up in in tribute to Israel (Ron Kampe...
Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Archaeology and the Babylonian Exile

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LEEN RITMEYER has been blogging about the archaeology of the Babylonian Exile: The Middle Gate. “her gates have sunk into the ground.” (La...

Lorber, Coins of the Ptolemaic Empire, Part II (ANS)

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NUMISMATICS: Announcing Coins of the Ptolemaic Empire, Part II (American Numismatic Society via the Pocket Change Blog). Thirty years in th...

Review of Sharp, Divination and philosophy in the letters of Paul

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Divination and philosophy in the letters of Paul . Matthew Sharp, Divination and philosophy in the letters of Pa...
Tuesday, October 10, 2023

DNA extracted from First Temple-era Israelites?

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TECHNOLOGY WATCH: In First, Archaeologists Extract DNA of Ancient Israelites. A rare First Temple-period family burial opens the door to ge...

The "son of Daedalus" in the Jerusalem Inscription

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Daedalus in Jerusalem. Evidence of a craftsmen’s guild in Jerusalem? (John Drummond). The inscription was written in ...

Orlov, Divine Mysteries in the Enochic Tradition (De Gruyter)

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NEW BOOK FROM DE GRUYTER: Divine Mysteries in the Enochic Tradition Andrei A. Orlov Volume 11 in the series Ekstasis: Religious Exper...
Monday, October 09, 2023

A child's undergarment from the Cave of Letters

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SARTORIAL MATERIAL CULTURE: 1,900-year-old Knot-Frilled Child’s Gown Discovered in Israel's Cave of Letters (Ashley Cowie, Ancient Orig...

A hoard of Byzantine-era coins found at Banias

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NUMISMATICS: Archaeologists Uncover Hidden Stash of Byzantine Gold Coins in Israel's Golan Heights (unattributed, Greek City Times). Th...

Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah 2023

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SHEMENI ATZERET AND SIMHAT TORAH took place this weekend. As I mentioned, I was away and was less than organized in pre-posting. This was n...
Sunday, October 08, 2023

Israel

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ON THE TERRIBLE NEWS: I was away. Just got back. The weekend posts were pre-posted. I want to express my support for Israel, my condemnatio...

The Syriaca.org Project

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SYRIAC WATCH: Texas A&M-Led Humanities Project Seeks To Preserve An Endangered Language. The team is working to preserve Syriac, a 2,00...