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Saturday, October 05, 2024

Portier-Young, The Prophetic Body (OUP)

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NEW BOOK FROM OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS: The Prophetic Body Embodiment and Mediation in Biblical Prophetic Literature Anathea E. Portier...

Walter E. Aufrecht, R.I.P.

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SAD NEWS: In memorium - Walter “Wally” E. Aufrecht (Kevin McGeough & Shawn Bubel, University of Lethbridge). With sadness, we are writi...
Friday, October 04, 2024

Nutzman on Ritual Healing in Roman and Late Antique Palestine

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THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST TODAY: Person, Place, and Object: Ritual Healing in Roman and Late Antique Palestine (Megan Nutzman). I argue that th...

Presentation on ancient art and ritual in Jewish worship practices

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EVENT: CHAP presents Representing the Divine: Late Antique Jewish Art and Ritual (Porterville Recorder [California]). Independent art histo...

Review of Eliav, A Jew in the Roman bathhouse

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: A Jew in the Roman bathhouse: cultural interaction in the ancient Mediterranean . aron Z. Eliav, A Jew in the Ro...
Thursday, October 03, 2024

Biblical Studies Carnival 220

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THE AMATEUR EXEGETE: Biblical Studies Carnival #220 (September 2024) (Ben). Visit PaleoJudaica daily for the latest news on ancient Judaism...

Review of Hayes, The literature of the sages: a re-visioning

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: The literature of the sages: a re-visioning . Christine Hayes, The literature of the sages: a re-visioning. Com...

Ancient Eshtemoa Synagogue defaced and burned

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VANDALISM: Pro-Hamas vandals deface, burn ancient Judea synagogue. The Eshtemoa Synagogue south of Hebron dates to around the 4th century C...
Wednesday, October 02, 2024

Rosh HaShanah 2024

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HAPPY NEW YEAR ( ROSH HASHANAH - Jewish New Year 5785) to all those celebrating. The New Year begins tonight at sundown. Pray for peace ...

A Judeo-Egyptian in the third century BCE?

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GREEK EPIGRAPHY: A Judeo-Egyptian Complains to King Ptolemy About His Neighbor. First record of ethnic identifier 'Judeo-Egyptian' ...

The Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East (HMANE)

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THE AWOL BLOG: Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East (HMANE) Collections . Formerly, the Harvard Semitic Museum. On the name change in ...

Review of Mason, Jews and Christians in the Roman world

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Jews and Christians in the Roman world: from historical method to cases . Steve Mason, Jews and Christians in th...
Tuesday, October 01, 2024

One MOTB Afghan codex, not two

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EXHIBITION AND CORRECTION: ‘Most exciting find in a millennium’: Oldest Hebrew book goes on display in DC. The eighth-century Afghan Liturg...

Review of Mazza, Stolen Fragments

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BOOK REVIEW: Inside the dangerous world of papyrus dealing. Frauds have infested the artefact trade (Alexander Poots, UnHerd). Kardashian’s...

Meir, Rethinking Ancient Jewish Politics (PhD diss. University of Helsinki, 2023)

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Dissertation Spotlight: Rethinking Ancient Jewish Politics: The Hasmonean Dynasty in the Seleukid Empire (Rotem Avneri ...
Monday, September 30, 2024

Abebe, Apocalyptic Spatiality in 1 Peter and Selected 1 Enoch Literature (Mohr Siebeck)

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NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK: Sofanit Tamene Abebe. Apocalyptic Spatiality in 1 Peter and Selected 1 Enoch Literature. A Comparative Analysis...

CFP: Divination Techniques in the Ancient Near East and the Mediterranean World

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THE MELAMMU PROJECT: Divination Techniques in the Ancient Near East and the Mediterranean World Twentyfifth Workshop of the Melammu Projec...

Forty in the Bible

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RABBI YEHUDA HAUSMAN: Forty: A Biblical Symbol of Completeness (TheTorah.com). In biblical texts, the span of forty days or forty years is ...
Sunday, September 29, 2024

Runesson, Judaism for Gentiles (Mohr Siebeck, open access)

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NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK: Anders Runesson. Judaism for Gentiles. Reading Paul beyond the Parting of the Ways Paradigm. Wissenschaftliche...
Saturday, September 28, 2024

Cover (ed.), Philo of Alexandria: On the Change of Names (Brill)

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: Philo of Alexandria: On the Change of Names Introduction, Translation, and Commentary Series: Philo of Alexandri...