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Saturday, June 29, 2024

Glas, Flavius Josephus' Self-Characterisation in First-Century Rome (Brill)

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: Flavius Josephus' Self-Characterisation in First-Century Rome A Historiographical Analysis of Autobiographical ...
Friday, June 28, 2024

Eerdmans interviews James McGrath

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THE EERDWORD BLOG: Interview with the Author—James F. McGrath . Meet the real John the Baptist. For many, John the Baptist is a footnote i...

The Berenike buddha, pet cemetery, papyri, and more!

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EGYTPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY: A Buried Ancient Egyptian Port Reveals the Hidden Connections Between Distant Civilizations. At the site of Berenike...

Another Millard obituary

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IN MEMORIAM: The archaeologist and the teacher: life and ministry of Alan Millard. One emphasis Millard made in his talks is that archaeolo...
Thursday, June 27, 2024

Review of Crellin, The semantics of word division in northwest Semitic writing systems

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: The semantics of word division in northwest Semitic writing systems: Ugaritic, Phoenician, Hebrew, Moabite and G...

Interview with Jody Magness on the DSS

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PODCAST: The Dead Sea Scrolls (National Review). John J. Miller is joined by Jodi Magness of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hil...
Wednesday, June 26, 2024

ToI on the new Infancy Gospel of Thomas fragment

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NEW TESTAMENT APOCRYPHA WATCH: 1,600-year-old papyrus fragment contains earliest account of Jesus’ childhood. Scrap from extra-biblical Inf...

AI translates Aramaic. Sort of.

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RELIGION PROF: ChatGPT Writes Sermons, Translates Aramaic . James McGrath set ChatGPT to translating some Syriac. As is usual with AI, th...

Review of Friesen, Acting gods, playing heroes ...

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Acting gods, playing heroes, and the interaction between Judaism, Christianity, and Greek drama in the early com...
Tuesday, June 25, 2024

... Documentary Papyri and the New Testament (Brill)

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: Everyday Life in Graeco-Roman Times Documentary Papyri and the New Testament Series: Studies in Cultural Context...
Monday, June 24, 2024

Tri-partite temples at Tell Tayinat in Turkey

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HOLY LAND PHOTOS' BLOG: Tell Tayinat and the Judean Temple — Design and Placing the Treaty/Covenant Document in the Holy of Holies (Car...

The Nuzi archive

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: The Nuzi Tablets. Bronze Age records from the time of the Patriarchs (Philippe Bohström). An informative, balanced...

Brazil, Jesus and YHWH-Texts in the Synoptic Gospels (T&T Clark)

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NEW BOOK FROM BLOOMSBURY/T&T CLARK: Jesus and YHWH-Texts in the Synoptic Gospels Scott Brazil (Author) Hardback $115.00 $103.50...
Sunday, June 23, 2024

Social Memory Theory and Conceptions of Afterlife in Jewish and Christian Antiquity (Brill)

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RECENT BOOK FROM BRILL: Social Memory Theory and Conceptions of Afterlife in Jewish and Christian Antiquity Series: Studies in Cultural C...
Saturday, June 22, 2024

Encountering the Parables in Contexts Old and New (T&T Clark)

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NEW BOOK FROM BLOOMSBURY/T&T CLARK: Encountering the Parables in Contexts Old and New T. E. Goud (Anthology Editor) , J.R.C. Couslan...
Friday, June 21, 2024

Oldest deep-sea shipwreck found off coast of Israel

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MARINE ARCHAEOLOGY: Energy Company Finds Earliest Deep-sea Shipwreck in the World, and It's Canaanite. While scanning the seabed ahead ...

Vermes centenary

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IN MEMORY OF: Search for the Jewish Jesus. Alexander Faludy celebrates the life and legacy of Géza Vermes, born 100 years ago on Saturday ...

More on Sennacherib's possible camps

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HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY UPDATE: Long-lost Assyrian military camp devastated by 'the angel of the Lord' finally found, scientist claims....

When was Jesus born?

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: When Was Jesus Born—B.C. or A.D.? (Megan Sauter). This is an old one that I've linked to before, but it's g...
Thursday, June 20, 2024

Walter (ed.), The Temporality of Festivals (De Gruyter, open access)

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NEW BOOK FROM DE GRUYTER: The Temporality of Festivals Approaches to Festive Time in Ancient Babylon, Greece, Rome, and Medieval China ...