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Tuesday, March 05, 2024

The Ironclad Legion vs. the highway of blood

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DIFFICULT DECISIONS: Israeli Archaeologists Beg State: Don't Build Road Over Only Roman Legion Camp Ever Found. The extant highway is d...

Review of Smith & Landau, The Secret Gospel of Mark

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: The Secret Gospel of Mark: A Controversial Scholar, a Scandalous Gospel of Jesus, and the Fierce Debate Over Its Authent...

Review of Runia, Philo of Alexandria: collected studies 1997-2021

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Philo of Alexandria: collected studies 1997-2021 . Philo of Alexandria: collected studies 1997-2021 David T. Ru...
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

A 10th-century-BCE electrum pendant from Jerusalem

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PHOENICIAN WATCH (?): Tiny First Temple-era Phoenician pendant is ‘earliest gold artifact’ found in Jerusalem. Just 4 millimeters on a side...

Ancient multi-compartment stone box discovered in Jerusalem

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ANICENT ARTIFACT: Rare Second Temple-era merchants box displayed at Israel Museum. 2,000-year old artifact likely used to display wares in ...

Evacuated boy finds Alexander Janneus coin near Dead Sea

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NUMISMATICS: 2,000-year-old Hasmonean coin discovered by child evacuated on Oct.7. While exploring the area around the hotel that he had be...
Monday, February 26, 2024

Otto, Die Mose-Exodus-Tradition in den Korintherbriefen (Mohr Siebeck)

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NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK: Konrad Otto. Die Mose-Exodus-Tradition in den Korintherbriefen. Schriftrezeption und -verarbeitung 'zwische...
Thursday, February 22, 2024

Hagler, Owning Disaster (Routledge)

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NEW BOOK FROM ROUTLEDGE: Owning Disaster Coping with Catastrophe in Abrahamic Narrative Traditions By Aaron M. Hagler Copyright 2024...
Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Minets & Nowakowski (eds.), Shaping Letters, Shaping Communities (Brill)

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: Shaping Letters, Shaping Communities: Multilingualism and Linguistic Practice in the Late Antique Near East and Egypt ...
Monday, February 19, 2024

Semi-hiatus

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YES, I know I haven't been posting much. Bear with me. I will get back to regular posting as soon as I can. Soon, I hope. Visit PaleoJud...

Popa, The Making of Syriac Jerusalem (Routledge)

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NEW BOOK FROM ROUTLEDGE: The Making of Syriac Jerusalem Representations of the Holy City in Syriac Literature of Late Antiquity and the M...
Friday, February 16, 2024

Bühner, Paulus im Kontext des Diasporajudentums (Mohr Siebeck)

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NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK: Ruben A. Bühner. Paulus im Kontext des Diasporajudentums. Judenchristliche Lebensweise nach den paulinischen Br...
Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Long, Dynamics of Charity and Reciprocity in the Book of Sirach (Mohr Siebeck)

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NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK: Stephen Arden Long. Dynamics of Charity and Reciprocity in the Book of Sirach. 2024. XV, 339 pages. Forschungen...
Monday, February 12, 2024

Kim, Hebrew Forms of Address (SBL)

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NEW BOOK FROM SBL PRESS: Hebrew Forms of Address: A Sociolinguistic Analysis Young Bok Kim ISBN 9781628373639 Volume ANEM 31 Status Av...
Wednesday, February 07, 2024

A Grand Prize winner for the Vesuvius Challenge

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TECHNOLOGY WATCH: An Ancient Roman Scroll on Pleasure Was Just Decoded Using AI (Will Henshall, Time Magazine). Papyrologists working with ...

The latest on muon detection under Jerusalem

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TECHNOLOGY WATCH: Unable to dig, researchers look to cosmic rays to unlock Jerusalem’s ancient underworld. A Tel Aviv University team is us...

Singing grape pips from the Negev?

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ARCHAEOBOTANY: The ancient history of Israeli grape pips and wine. Excavations have given proof of a flourishing wine industry in the Byzan...

News about the Coptic Magical Papyri Project

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COPTIC WATCH: Love and hate in ancient times: New anthology on 'magical' texts published (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg p...
Sunday, February 04, 2024

Trotter, Hellenistic Jews and Consolatory Rhetoric (Mohr Siebeck)

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NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK: Christine R. Trotter. Hellenistic Jews and Consolatory Rhetoric. 2 Maccabees, Wisdom of Solomon, 1 Thessalonia...
Saturday, February 03, 2024

Smith, Luke and the Jewish Other (Routledge)

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NEW BOOK FROM ROUTLEDGE: Luke and the Jewish Other Politics of Identity in the Third Gospel By David Andrew Smith Copyright 2024 ...