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Saturday, August 17, 2024

Satlow's Talmud course

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TALMUD WATCH: Professor Michael L. Satlow is teaching an undergraduate, English-only course on The Talmud this autumn. Follow the link for ...
Friday, August 16, 2024

Is the Ivory Pomegranate inscription authentic?

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BIBLE ARCHAEOLOGY REPORT: Weighing the Evidence: Is the Ivory Pomegranate Authentic? (Bryan Windle). If authentic, this small artifact has ...

Wisdom Between East and West (open-access, Venice University Press)

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THE AWOL BLOG: Wisdom Between East and West: Mesopotamia, Greece and Beyond . An open-access publication from Venice University Press, edite...

Tu B'Av explainer

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COMING THIS SUNDAY: Tu B'Av: Everything you need to know about the Jewish holiday of love and romance - explainer. Tu B'Av is often...
Thursday, August 15, 2024

ASOR webinar: Magness on "What Makes Jerusalem Special?"

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ONLINE EVENT: FRIENDS OF ASOR WEBINARS: What Makes Jerusalem Special? Friends of ASOR present the first webinar of the 2024-2025 season on S...

Review of Magness, Jerusalem through the Ages

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BOOK REVIEW: Unveiling Jerusalem: Jodi Magness’s comprehensive archaeological journey through time. 'Jerusalem through the Ages' is...

Why is the Gallus Revolt forgotten?

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THE ANXIOUS BENCH: Jews And Christians In Roman Palestine (Philip Jenkins). In other words, the Gallus Revolt of the 350s looks like a stra...
Wednesday, August 14, 2024

Diaspora Judaism and the Temple

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DR. MICHAEL TUVAL: Judaism Transforms in the Diaspora During the Second Temple Period (TheTorah.com). Even before the destruction of the Te...

Lieber, Staging the Sacred: SBL review panel, part 4

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Author's Response: An Invitation (Laura Lieber). SBL 2023 Review Panel | Staging the Sacred: Theatricality and Perf...

The latest on Jewish-Temple denial

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TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: ‘A Jewish myth': In Arab world, many still refuse to accept existence of the two Temples - analysis. ‘Temple denial...
Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Drainage channel profiles Jerusalem during Great Revolt

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MATERIAL CULTURE: Detritus from ancient Jerusalem drainage channel captures moment of city’s destruction. Excavation reveals rare glass and...

Antoninus Pius coin sifted from Temple Mount

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THE TEMPLE MOUNT SIFTING PROJECT BLOG: A RARE TEMPLE MOUNT COIN FEATURING THE PORTRAIT OF THE EMPEROR WHO REPEALED THE HARSH DECREES AGAINST...

Another stone just fell at the Western Wall

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TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: A day before Tisha B’Av, a large Jerusalem stone falls at the Western Wall. A comment on Israeli society, or an odd coi...

Tisha B'Av explainer

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BACKGROUND AND CUSTOMS: Tisha B'Av 2024: What the Jewish summer fast day is all about - explainer. On Tisha B'av, the Jewish people...
Monday, August 12, 2024

Tisha B'Av 2024

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TISHA B'AV (THE NINTH OF AV) begins this evening at sundown. An easy fast to all those observing it. The Ninth of Av is not specifical...

Lieber, Staging the Sacred: SBL review panel, part 3

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: All the (Ancient) World’s a Stage (Erin Galgay Walsh). SBL 2023 Review Panel | Staging the Sacred: Theatricality and P...

Review of the Irshai Festschrift

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ּBRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Essays on Jews and Christians in late antiquity in honour of Oded Irshai . Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony, Martin Goo...

What is Latin?

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: What Is Latin? Exploring the language of Rome and beyond (Jennifer Drummond). Another in the useful BHD introducto...
Sunday, August 11, 2024

Morales (ed.), Cult and Cosmos (Peeters)

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NEW BOOK FROM PEETERS: Cult and Cosmos Tilting toward a Temple-Centered Theology SERIES: Biblical Tools and Studies, 18 EDITOR: ...
Saturday, August 10, 2024

Porter& Yoon (eds.), The Johannine Prologue and its Resonances (Brill)

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: The Johannine Prologue and its Resonances Series: Johannine Studies, Volume: 4 Volume Editors: Stanley E. Porter ...