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Saturday, May 18, 2024

Kazen & Roitto, Revenge, Compensation, and Forgiveness in the Ancient World (Mohr Siebeck)

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NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK: Thomas Kazen / Rikard Roitto. Revenge, Compensation, and Forgiveness in the Ancient World. A Comparative Study ...
Friday, May 17, 2024

Nongbri on recent Coptic codicological matters

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OVER AT THE VARIANT READINGS BLOG, Brent Nongbri has a couple of technical posts on the codicology of two Coptic biblical manuscripts: Th...

Review of Lafontaine, Hellénisme et prophétie. Les Oracles sibyllins juifs et chrétiens

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Hellénisme et prophétie. Les Oracles sibyllins juifs et chrétiens . Xavier Lafontaine, Hellénisme et prophétie. ...

Salemi, A Linguistic-Theological Exegesis of Ezekiel as Môphēt (Brill)

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: A Linguistic-Theological Exegesis of Ezekiel as Môphēt “I have made you a sign” (Ezekiel 12:6) Series: Studia Sem...
Thursday, May 16, 2024

News on the Beth Shemesh alphabetic cuneiform tablet

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NORTHWEST SEMITIC EPIGRAPHY: Enigmatic Canaanite Tablet Turns Out to Be School Exercise, Israeli Researchers Say. Inscription found nearly ...

Review of Vörös, Mount Machaerus

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Review: Mount Machaerus (Konstantinos Politis). Mount Machaerus An Introduction to the Historical, Archaeological, an...
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Satlow on astrology

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MICHAEL L. SATLOW: The Business of Astrology . The practice of astrology is, of course, ancient. So too is criticism of it. Like today, most...

More on new and old Plato traditions

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ASSESSMENT: Ancient scroll reveals new story of Plato's death—here's why you should be suspicious of it (Bert van den Berg, The Con...
Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Conference on Jewish and Christian Perspectives on the Encounter with God

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AT ST VLADIMIR'S ORTHODOX THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: Third Annual Academic Symposium. “I Saw the Lord” (Isa 6.1): Entangled Jewish and Chri...

Elephantine exhibition

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STAATLICHE MUSEEN ZU BERLIN: Elephantine: Island of the Millennia . 26.04.2024 to 27.10.2024 James-Simon-Galerie The Nile Island Elephanti...
Monday, May 13, 2024

On divorce documents

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GENIZA FRAGMENT OF THE MONTH (APRIL 2024): Geṭ groundwork from the Cairo Genizah: practising writing a Jewish divorce document (T-S 10J2.34...

On Coptic

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: What Is Coptic? The language of Christian Egypt (Marek Dospěl). Another in the useful BHD introductory series on b...
Sunday, May 12, 2024

Lester, Deuteronomy and the Material Transmission of Tradition (Brill)

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: Deuteronomy and the Material Transmission of Tradition Series: Vetus Testamentum, Supplements, Volume: 198 Author...
Saturday, May 11, 2024

Litwa, Simon of Samaria and the Simonians (T&T Clark)

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NEW BOOK FROM BLOOMSBURY/T&T CLARK: Simon of Samaria and the Simonians Contours of an Early Christian Movement M. David Litw...
Friday, May 10, 2024

The Exagoge of Ezekiel is playing in New York

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THEATRE: Exagoge Review. The oldest Jewish play, PLUS (Jonathan Mandell, New York Theater). “Exagoge,” inspired by the oldest known Jewish ...

Gross, Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity (CUP)

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NEW BOOK FROM CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS: Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity AUTHOR: Simcha Gross, University of ...
Thursday, May 09, 2024

On the Leviticus Holiness Code

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PROF. JULIA RHYDER: Israel, Be Holy! A Command for Religious Conformity (TheTorah.com). The sanctification of all Israel in Leviticus 17–26...

Review of Yarbro Collins, Paul Transformed

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Paul Transformed: Reception of the Person and Letters of Paul in Antiquity (D. Clint Burnett). Adela Yarbro Collins. Pa...

Claremont Coptic Encyclopedia latest

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THE AWOL BLOG: Claremont Coptic Encyclopedia Chronological List of Recent Entries (23 April 2024) . It's been a few years since I men...
Tuesday, May 07, 2024

Review of Huber & O'Day, Wisdom Commentary: Revelation

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Life Goes On? Temporality, Resistance, Excess: A response to Lynn Huber’s and Gail O’Day’s Commentary on Revelation (Je...