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Saturday, October 21, 2023

An AJR conversation on Tobolowsky's The Myth of the Twelve Tribes of Israel

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: AJR Conversations | The Myth of the Twelve Tribes of Israel (Andrew Tobolowsky and Jill Hicks-Keeton). Actually though,...

That other ancient library of suppressed scriptures

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THE ANXIOUS BENCH: How an Ancient Library of Suppressed Sacred Books Survived Through the Middle Ages . Philip Jenkins follow up his recent ...
Friday, October 20, 2023

Hebrew Bible job at Towson University

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H-JUDAIC: FEATURED JOB: Assistant Professor of the Hebrew Bible, Towson University . Position: The College of Liberal Arts (CLA) invites a...

PSCO event in honor of Bob Kraft

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FROM THE PHILDEPHIA SEMINAR ON CHRISTIAN ORIGINS LIST: Dear PSCO community, Please join us on October 27 to celebrate Bob Kraft. The memori...

Malachi Beit-Arié 1937-2023

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SAD NEWS: Passing of Prof. Malachi Beit-Arié (Shalom Berger, H-Judaic). H-Judaic is greatly saddened to learn of the passing of Prof. Malac...
Thursday, October 19, 2023

Hazael's invasion and baked bricks at Gath

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TECHNOLOGY WATCH: New Discovery Changes Story of King Hazael’s Attack on Biblical Gath. The Philistines of Gath were thought to be outliers...

The two creation accounts in Genesis

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PROF. KONRAD SCHMID: Genesis’ Two Creation Accounts Compiled and Interpreted as One (TheTorah.com). Already the editors of the Torah recogn...

The statements from ASOR, SBL, and EABS

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RESPONSES FROM THE GUILD: Archaeological, Biblical Institutions Condemn Hamas Massacre. Following a week of complaints by Israeli archaeolo...
Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Barthélemy, The Precursors of Aquila (Brill)

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NEWLY TRANSLATED BOOK FROM BRILL: The Precursors of Aquila The First Complete Publication of the Text of the Greek Minor Prophets Scroll (...
Tuesday, October 17, 2023

Review of Bloch, Ancient Jewish diaspora

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Ancient Jewish diaspora: essays on Hellenism . René Bloch, Ancient Jewish diaspora: essays on Hellenism. Supple...

Mysterious jars buried at Qumran

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Baffling Burials. The meaning of jar burials at Khirbet Qumran (Marek Dospěl). At Khirbet Qumran, the ancient settlem...

Baden & Stackert (eds.), The Pentateuch and Its Readers (Mohr Siebeck)

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NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK: The Pentateuch and Its Readers. Edited by Joel S. Baden and Jeffrey Stackert. 2023. VIII, 454 pages. Forschunge...
Monday, October 16, 2023

Review of Van Maaren, The Boundaries of Jewishness in the Southern Levant 200 BCE–132 CE

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: The Boundaries of Jewishness in the Southern Levant 200 BCE–132 CE: Power, Strategies, and Ethnic Configurations (Josep...

The Sifting Project and Arabic

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THE TEMPLE MOUNT SIFTING PROJECT BLOG: REDUCING THE FUEL OF THE ‘AL-AQSA FLOOD’ . We are not trying to prove the existence of the Temple, or...

Mitchell, Cyrus the Great (Routledge)

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BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: Cyrus the Great: A Biography of Kingship . Mitchell, Lynette. 2023. Cyrus the Great: A Biography of Kingship. New Yo...
Sunday, October 15, 2023

The Sword of Judith (OpenBook)

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THE AWOL BLOG: The Sword of Judith: Judith Studies Across the Disciplines . The Sword of Judith is the first multidisciplinary collection of...

Ross & Robar (eds.), Linguistic Theory and the Biblical Text (CUP/OpenBook)

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WILLIAM A. ROSS: BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: LINGUISTIC THEORY AND THE BIBLICAL TEXT (OPEN ACCESS) . It is my pleasure to announce a new book that is...
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:...