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Saturday, August 31, 2024

Auvinen, Philo’s Influence on Valentinian Tradition (SBL)

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NEW BOOK FROM SBL PRESS: Philo’s Influence on Valentinian Tradition Risto Auvinen ISBN 9781628375749 Volume SPhiloM 10 Status Avail...
Friday, August 30, 2024

An egregious cheating weight after all?

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: First Temple Cheating Weight. Find shows how Jerusalem merchants manipulated weights to defraud customers (Nathan Ste...

Inscribed genie seal excavated in Jerusalem

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ARCHAEOLOGY, HEBREW EPIGRAPHY, ICONOGRAPHY: ‘Extremely rare, beautiful’ First Temple-era ‘genie’ seal discovered in Jerusalem. 2,700-year-o...

Ancient tomb art going on display in Ashkelon

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ARCHAEOLOGY, DECORATIVE ART: Never Before Seen Ancient Roman Tombs to Be Shown to Public for the First Time. One of the tombs was first dis...

Review of Filtvedt & Schröter, Know yourself

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Know yourself: echoes of the Delphic maxim in ancient Judaism, Christianity, and philosophy . Ole Jakob Filtvedt...
Thursday, August 29, 2024

Lammers, "Have You Not Read this Scripture?" (Peeters)

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NEW BOOK FROM PEETERS: "Have You Not Read this Scripture?" Memory Variation and Context-Based Modification in the Old Testament Q...

Galatello, The Syriac Script at Turfan (Austrian Academy of Sciences)

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NEW BOOK FROM THE AUSTRIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES PRESS: GALATELLO Martina The Syriac Script at Turfan First Soundings Ver...
Wednesday, August 28, 2024

Atkins, The Animalising Affliction of Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel 4 (T&T Clark)

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NEWISH BOOK FROM BLOOMSBURY/T&T CLARK: The Animalising Affliction of Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel 4 Reading Across the Human-Animal Bo...

Karla & Konstan (trans.), Life of Aesop the Philosopher (SBL)

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NEW BOOK FROM SBL PRESS: Life of Aesop the Philosopher Grammatiki A. Karla; David Konstan, translator ISBN 9781628373271 Volume WGRW...
Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Korpel & Sanders (eds.), Meaningful Meetings with Foreigners in the World of the Bible (Spronk Festschrift, Peeters)

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NEW BOOK FROM PEETERS: Meaningful Meetings with Foreigners in the World of the Bible Essays in Honour of Klaas Spronk on the Occasion of ...

Baker, Mesopotamian Civilization and the Origins of the New Testament (CUP)

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RECENT BOOK FROM CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS: Mesopotamian Civilization and the Origins of the New Testament AUTHOR: Robin Baker, Universi...
Monday, August 26, 2024

1-2 Maccabees as "contemporary history"

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THE BIBLE AND INTERPRETATION: Modern Scholarship on 1–2 Maccabees in Its Historical Context: Three Episodes What are the theological impli...

Four new Babylonian lunar-omen tablets published

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CUNEIFORM LUNAR OMENS: Ancient Babylonians thought solar eclipses predicted disasters. Deciphering four Mesopotamian tablets, team led by A...

Haspia?

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ARCHAEOLOGY: Was the Jewish Settlement of ‘Haspia’, Mentioned in Rabbinic Sources, Found in the Golan? (crownheights.info). Impressive rema...
Sunday, August 25, 2024

O'Connell, The Hay Archive of Coptic Spells on Leather (British Museum, open-access)

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THE AWOL BLOG: The Hay Archive of Coptic Spells on Leather: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Materiality of Magical Practice . A 2022 ope...
Saturday, August 24, 2024

Boda & Rom-Shiloni (eds.), Crossing Borders between the Domestic and the Wild (T&T Clark)

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NEW BOOK FROM BLOOMSBURY/T&T CLARK: Crossing Borders between the Domestic and the Wild Space, Fauna, and Flora Mark J. Boda (A...
Friday, August 23, 2024

The rest of the sword has been found in that drainage channel

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MARTIAL MATERIAL CULTURE: Lost tip of 2,000-year-old Roman sword reunites with blade in remarkable City of David discovery. The sword likel...

On the Kingdom of Judah

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ANCIENT ORIGINS: Historical, Archaeological, and Theological Debates Surrounding the Kingdom of Judah (Aleksa Vučković). The Kingdom of Jud...

Biblical Archaeology Review's 50th anniversary is coming

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Celebrate BAR’s 50th! Share your favorite BAR stories, memories, and controversies . The anniversary is in 2025. There...
Thursday, August 22, 2024

More on the move of that Megiddo mosaic

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DECORATIVE ART EXHIBITION UPDATE: On loan from Israel, rare mosaic floor to be flown to museum in Washington. A rare third-century mosaic f...