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Saturday, June 01, 2024

Jeal (ed.), Exploring Sublime Rhetoric in Biblical Literature (SBL)

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NEW BOOK FROM SBL PRESS: Exploring Sublime Rhetoric in Biblical Literature Roy R. Jeal, editor ISBN 9781628375626 Volume ESEC 28 Statu...
Friday, May 31, 2024

Scales on Spaces of ancient Galilee

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THE BIBLE AND INTERPRETATION Spaces of ancient Galilee: How Judaism created Galilee and Galilee created Judaism in the time of the Hasmonean...

Jerusalem’s Herodian Quarter is reopening

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RENOVATION: Unveiling Jerusalem’s priestly neighborhood from Herodian era. "History is being revived in the Jewish Quarter" as an...

Still more on the Crosby-Schøyen Codex

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MORE ON THE CODEX'S CONTENTS: Crosby-Schøyen Codex: ancient Coptic manuscript reveals sermon that spurred violence against Jews (M J C ...
Thursday, May 30, 2024

Macaskill, The Entangled Enoch: 2 Enoch and the Cultures of Late Antiquity (Brill)

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: The Entangled Enoch: 2 Enoch and the Cultures of Late Antiquity Series: Studia in Veteris Testamenti Pseudepigrapha,...

Kirk, Agur’s Wisdom and the Coherence of Proverbs 30 (SBL)

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NEW BOOK FROM SBL PRESS; Agur’s Wisdom and the Coherence of Proverbs 30 Alexander T. Kirk ISBN 9781628375657 Volume AIL 50 Status Avai...

Josephus on the Essenes

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Josephus on the Essenes . I've linked to this one before, but it's back, and the information is good to have h...
Wednesday, May 29, 2024

Forthcoming: The Illustrated Cairo Genizah (Gorgias Press)

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THE GENIZA FRAGMENTS BLOG: The Illustrated Cairo Genizah – now available to pre-order (Nick Posegay and Melonie Schmierer-Lee). We are very...

Bakhos & Gray (eds.), Kalmin Festschrift (SBL)

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NEW BOOK FROM SBL PRESS: Making History: Studies in Rabbinic History, Literature, and Culture in Honor of Richard L. Kalmin Carol Bakhos, A...

UHaifa adds a new archaeology master's program

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HIGHER EDUCATION: The University of Haifa Presents: Dig, Dive and Discover. University of Haifa’s School of Archaeology and Maritime Cultur...
Tuesday, May 28, 2024

Niehoff, Judentum und Hellenismus (Mohr Siebeck)

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NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK: Maren R. Niehoff. Judentum und Hellenismus. Herausgegeben von Birgit Weyel unter Mitarbeit von Florian Zacher. ...

Online course on the history of biblical translations

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MEDIEVALISTS.NET: Online course starting this week: The History of Biblical Translation . Starting, Saturday, June 1st: This six-week course...

What John the Baptist wasn't

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RELIGION PROF: John The Baptist Was Not A Hermit . And he didn't necessarily live in the "desert." For more on James McGrat...
Monday, May 27, 2024

Ancient gold ring excavated in Jerusalem

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MORE ANCIENT BLING: Ancient gold ring, 2,300 years old, discovered in City of David. “This is an unusual and deeply moving find, not one fo...

Hannibal was here?

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PUNIC WATCH? Hidden gold earring reveals forgotten episode of Carthage-Rome war (Mining.com). A gold earring found in a stash at the Iron A...

Review of Kubiak-Schneider, Palmyra and the east

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Palmyra and the east . Kenneth Lapatin, Rubina Raja, Palmyra and the East. Studies in Palmyrene archaeology and...
Sunday, May 26, 2024

Israeli & Ilan, Massekhet Gittin Chapters 4–5 (Mohr Siebeck)

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NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK: Anat Israeli / Tal Ilan. Massekhet Gittin Chapters 4–5. Volume III/6/d-e. Text, Translation, and Commentary. 2...
Saturday, May 25, 2024

Lag B'Omer 2024

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LAG B'OMER , the 33rd day of the Counting of the Omer, begins tonight at sundown. Best wishes to all observing it. My 2023 Lag B'...

Smith, Luke Was Not A Christian (Brill)

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: Luke Was Not A Christian: Reading the Third Gospel and Acts within Judaism Series: Biblical Interpretation Series, Vo...
Friday, May 24, 2024

Epigraphic finds at Berenike, Egypt

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GREEK EPIGRAPHY: Letters from Roman Centurions Found in Ancient Berenike, Egypt: “I Send Them with Dromedarius, Take Care of Them” (Guiller...