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Saturday, July 13, 2024

Collins & Nati, The Rule of the Association and Related Texts (OUP)

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NEW BOOK FROM OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS: The Rule of the Association and Related Texts John J. Collins and James Nati Oxford Commentary o...
Friday, July 12, 2024

Magness, Jerusalem through the Ages (OUP)

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NEW BOOK FROM OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; Jerusalem through the Ages From Its Beginnings to the Crusades Jodi Magness £30.99 Hardb...

Palamidis & Bonnet (eds.), What’s in a Divine Name? (De Gruyter, open access)

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NEW BOOK FROM DE GRUYTER: What’s in a Divine Name? Religious Systems and Human Agency in the Ancient Mediterranean Edited by: Alaya P...

SOTS Booklist 2024

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IN THE MAIL: Samuel Hildebrandt (ed.) with Kengoro Goto, Society for Old Testament Study Book List 2024 (= JSOT 48.5) (London: Sage, 2024)....
Thursday, July 11, 2024

Jassen & Schiffman (eds.), The Dead Sea Scrolls (Palgrave Macmillan)

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NEW BOOK FROM PALGRAVE MACMILLAN: The Dead Sea Scrolls New Insights on Ancient Texts Book © 2024 Overview Editors: Alex P. Jas...

Raja (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Palmyra

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NEW BOOK FROM OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS: The Oxford Handbook of Palmyra Edited by Rubina Raja Oxford Handbooks £115.00 Hardback ...

On Seila, Jephthah’s Daughter

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DR. SHAYNA SHEINFELD: Seila, Jephthah’s Daughter: A Sacrifice Like Isaac (TheTorah.com). Jephthah is compelled by a vow to sacrifice his da...
Wednesday, July 10, 2024

Caligula was here and so was Philo

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ANCIENT HORTICULTURAL ARCHITECTURE: Archaeologists in Rome Find Spot Where Caligula Met Ill-fated Jewish Embassy. Construction works by the...

More on a rediscovered treatise of Porphyry

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ROGER PEARSE: A lost Greek philosophical text rediscovered in Syriac: Porphyry’s “On Principles and Matter.” The discovery of a lost text fr...

Crate Expectations?

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THE GENIZA FRAGMENTS BLOG: Crate Expectations (Melonie Schmierer-Lee). It's nice that even this crate of tiny Geniza scraps has produc...
Tuesday, July 09, 2024

Arnold Band (1929-2024)

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SAD NEWS: Remembering Arnold Band, a towering figure in Jewish studies. Band, who has died at 94, brought a classicist touch to his studies...

Rollston on the Megiddo Mosaic inscriptions

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ROLLSTON EPIGRAPHY: A Stunning Trio of Early Christian (3rd century) Inscriptions from Biblical Armageddon: ‘God Jesus Christ,’ Five Promine...

Bill advanced to expand IAA authority into West Bank

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ARCHAEOLOGY AND POLITICS: Ministers move to expand Antiquities Authority jurisdiction into West Bank. Bill would transfer auspices over ...
Monday, July 08, 2024

13th-century (CE) Hebrew tombstone found in India

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HEBREW EPIGRAPHY: Hebrew inscriptions found on 13th-century headstone in India. Ramanathapuram tombstone dates to 1224 or 1225; due to exte...

Is biblical pseudepigraphy a lie or a fib?

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PROF. JONATHAN KLAWANS: Biblical Pseudepigraphy: Are Falsely Attributed Biblical Texts Deceptive? (TheTorah.com). Is editing and writing in...

ANE/AWOL anniversary

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HAPPY THIRTY-FIRST ANNIVERSARY (yesterday) to the ANE discussion list, which eventually evolved into the AWOL Blog. I was a charter member ...
Sunday, July 07, 2024

Rovner, ... Studies in the Evolution and Formation of the Passover Haggadah (Gorgias)

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NEW BOOK FROM GORGIAS PRESS: IN EVERY GENERATION Studies in the Evolution and Formation of the Passover Haggadah By Jay Rovner The Pas...
Saturday, July 06, 2024

Cohn & Kogman-Appel, Beloved David (Stern Festschrift, SBL)

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NEW BOOK FROM SBL PRESS: Beloved David—Advisor, Man of Understanding, and Writer: A Festschrift in Honor of David Stern Naftali S. Cohn,...
Friday, July 05, 2024

The Antikythera mechanism used a lunar calendar?

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(ANCIENT) TECHNOLOGY WATCH: Advanced imaging discovers super-accuracy in Greek-era mystery "computer." The Antikythera mechanism,...

Barkay Festscrift book launch

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THE TEMPLE MOUNT SIFITNG PROJECT BLOG: FESTSCHRIFT BOOK LAUNCH EVENT IN HONOR OF DR. BARKAY . I mentioned the Festscrift earlier in anot...