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Saturday, March 15, 2025

For the Ides of March

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NUMISMATICS: Heritage to Hold Twelve Caesars Ancient Coin Showcase Auction March 15 (Heritage Auctions, CoinWeek). The article has a nic...

Bodner (ed), The Cambridge Companion to Biblical Narrative

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NEW BOOK FROM CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS: The Cambridge Companion to Biblical Narrative Part of Cambridge Companions to Religion EDITOR: ...
Friday, March 14, 2025

Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: More Noncanonical Scriptures, Vol. 2!

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MY RULE IS: A BOOK ISN'T FINISHED UNTIL I HOLD A COPY IN MY HAND. Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: More Noncanonical Scriptures , volume...

Conference: The Bible in its Ancient Iranian Context

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BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: The Bible in its Ancient Iranian Context . International conference at UCLA on March 13-14, 2025. This is an in-pe...

Review of Ophir, In the Beginning Was the State

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Review | In the Beginning Was the State: Divine Violence in the Hebrew Bible (Emily Filler). Adi Ophir, In the Beginnin...

Obituary: Ze’ev Meshel (1932–2024)

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Milestones: Ze’ev Meshel (1932–2024). Leading archaeologist of Israel’s desert regions (Lily Singer-Avitz). Ze’ev Mes...
Thursday, March 13, 2025

Purim 2025

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HAPPY PURIM to all those celebrating! The festival begins tonight night at sundown. Last year's Purim post is here , with links. More ...

Who Wrote the Book of Esther?

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FOR PURIM: Who Wrote the Book of Esther? Tradition says Mordechai wrote the Book of Esther, but surely he wouldn't have gotten the timi...

Permanent Hebrew Bible lectureship at KCL

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KINGS COLLEGE LONDON: Lecturer in Hebrew Bible . About the role The Department of Theology and Religious Studies at King’s College London ...

Scribal corrections in the DSS

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THE ETC BLOG: Correcting a Dead Sea Scroll (Anthony Ferguson). The phenomenon of simple and neat corrections is a modern reality, not an an...
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Purim essays at TheTorah.com

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PURIM IS COMING: Ruth and Esther: Divergent Narratives, Convergent Narratology (Prof. Rabbi Reuven Kimelman, TheTorah.com). Why are the Boo...

Punic peoples had little Levantine DNA?

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PUNIC WATCH: Punic people had Greek genetics and almost no Levantine ancestors, new study finds. A new study has found that the Punic peopl...

JJS 76.1

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H–JUDAIC: The latest issue of Journal of Jewish Studies is now available online . Behind the subscription wall, that is. But the H-Ju...
Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Late-antique ritual bath excavated in Ostia (Rome)

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ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE: Ancient Jewish ritual bath discovered in Ostia Antica Archaeological Park (Redazione, Finestre sull'Arte). The in...

More on that excavated chained nun

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THE EXTREME ASCETICISM STORY from last month has started getting more media attention, including another article from the Jerusalem Post. Th...

Ten years of Bibliographia Iranica

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ANNIVERSARY: A Decade of BiblioIranica (Arash Zeini). As we mark a decade of sharing bibliographic updates and scholarly announcements, we ...

Free online Phoenician and Punic languages classes!

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PHOENICIAN AND PUNIC WATCH: Phoenician and Punic language training. Free online short courses (Archaeology Newsroom, Archaeology Wiki). Th...
Monday, March 10, 2025

IDF permits Hasidim to visit traditional grave of Talmudic rabbi on Lebanon border

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TALMUDIC PILGRIMAGE: IDF Lets Hundreds of Hasidim Pray at Rabbi's Grave in Southern Lebanon. For the first time since the war with Leba...

Review of Callegher, Coins and economy in Magdala/Taricheae from the Hasmoneans to the Umayyad Period

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Coins and economy in Magdala/Taricheae from the Hasmoneans to the Umayyad Period . Bruno Callegher, Coins and ec...

How biblical archaeology has developed

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: The Evolution of Biblical Archaeology. From proving the Bible to exploring everyday lives . That sub-heading about sum...