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Saturday, October 28, 2023

Digitally reconstructing Palmyra

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PALMYRA WATCH: How Tourists Are Rescuing the Ancient City of Palmyra. Photographs taken from before terrorists destroyed the site are helpi...

Review of Ameling (ed.), Centre and periphery: working with the inscriptions of Iudaea/Palaestina

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Centre and periphery: working with the inscriptions of Iudaea/Palaestina . Walter Ameling, Centre and periphery:...
Friday, October 27, 2023

On King Sennacherib

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THE WORLD IS FULL OF HISTORY: King Sennacherib: The Warrior King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Portrayed in the Bible as the villain responsi...

Lenzo G., The Greenfield Papyrus (Peeters)

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NEW BOOK FROM PEETERS PRESS: The Greenfield Papyrus Funerary Papyrus of a Priestess at Karnak Temple (c. 950 BCE) SERIES :British Mus...

Burke on Christian Apocrypha at SBL 2023

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NEWS YOU CAN USE: Christian Apocrypha at SBL 2023 (Tony Burke, Apocryphicity Blog). Many papers are more or less related to ancient Juda...

Jonah (Anchor Bible commentary)

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NEW BOOK FROM YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS: Jonah A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary by Rhiannon Graybill, John Kaltner and ...
Thursday, October 26, 2023

A new Book of the Dead manuscript excavated in Egypt

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AND ANOTHER ONE: Ancient Egyptian cemetery holds rare 'Book of the Dead' papyrus and mummies. Archaeologists in Egypt have discover...

New open-access book: The Sinai Palimpsests

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THE ETC BLOG: New book on Sinai Palimpsests (Open Access) (Peter M. Head). A very interesting new book has just been published by the Austr...

Review of The Ingholt archive: the Palmyrene material ...

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: The Ingholt archive: the Palmyrene material, transcribed with commentary and bibliography . The Ingholt archive:...
Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Second Temple Judaism job at Cambridge

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THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE: Assistant Professor in Second Temple Judaism . The Faculty of Divinity wishes to appoint to an Assistant Profes...

Preview of Berkovitz, A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Publication Preview | A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity (A.J. Berkovitz). My book offers four related portraits...

Review of Franz Cumont: Studia Pontica II

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Franz Cumont: Studia Pontica II . Daniela Bonanno, Corinne Bonnet, Omar Coloru, Annick Fenet, Ted Kaiser, Fra...
Tuesday, October 24, 2023

A virtual Herod's Temple

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LEEN RITMEYER: Herod’s Temple Mount in Jerusalem in 3D . Cross-file under (Virtual) Temple Mount Watch. Also, congratulations to L...

Matsangou, The Manichaeans of the Roman East (Brill)

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: The Manichaeans of the Roman East Manichaeism in Greek anti-Manichaica & Roman Imperial Legislation Series: Nag...

Review of Heilmann, Lesen in Antike und frühem Christentum

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Lesen in Antike und frühem Christentum . Jan Heilmann, Lesen in Antike und frühem Christentum: Kulturgeschic...
Monday, October 23, 2023

Antiquities sites at risk in Gaza

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WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST: The archaeological sites at risk of being wiped out in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - from the oldest Christian ...

A gateway of Cyrus found at Persepolis?

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PESEPOLIS WATCH: Royal wall unearthed in Persepolis (Tehran Times). Adorned with striking glazed bricks, the astonishing structure, also re...

Korytko, Death of the Covenant Code (Brill)

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: Death of the Covenant Code: Capital Punishment in Old Greek Exodus in Light of Greco-Egyptian Law Series: Supplements...
Sunday, October 22, 2023

Review of Vinzent, Resetting the origins of Christianity

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Resetting the origins of Christianity: a new theory of sources and beginnings . Markus Vinzent, Resetting the or...

... New Trajectories in Syriac Studies (Brock Festschrift) (Brill)

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: The Third Lung: New Trajectories in Syriac Studies Essays in Honor of Sebastian P. Brock Series: Eastern Christia...