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Saturday, April 05, 2025

Purity in Ancient Judaism (Mohr Siebeck)

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NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK: Purity in Ancient Judaism Texts, Contexts, and Concepts Edited by Lutz Doering, Jörg Frey and Laura von B...
Friday, April 04, 2025

Gaza archaeology exhibition in Paris

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NOW OPEN: New Gaza archaeology exhibit opens in Paris, as most sites in enclave severely damaged. Artifacts on display include findings fro...

Albert Pietersma (1935–2025)

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SAD NEWS: Obituary for Albert Pietersma (1935–2025) (Robert Hiebert, IOSCS). Albert Pietersma Professor Emeritus of Septuagint and Helleni...

Review panel on Neis, When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven (5)

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW has published another essay in its review panel on Rafael Rachel Neis, When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven : The Theory ...
Thursday, April 03, 2025

Zoom lecture by Prof. Amy-Jill Levine on Jesus' parables

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CAL STATE LONG BEACH COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS: Zoom Event- Dr. Amy-Jill Levine: "Jesus’ Parables as Jewish Stories" The CSULB Jewis...

Guide to ethnographic passages in Poseidonios of Apameia

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ETHNIC RELATIONS AND MIGRATION IN THE ANCIENT WORLD: Guide to Poseidonios of Apameia (Philip A. Harlan). This post is aimed at providing a ...

Aliyari Babolghani, The Great King’s Word under AhuraMazdā’s Protection (Brill)

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BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: The Great King’s Word under AhuraMazdā’s Protection . Notice of a New Book: Aliyari Babolghani, Salman. 2024. The Gre...
Wednesday, April 02, 2025

Ten Commandments Scroll coming to Reagan Library exhibition

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SCROLL ROTATION: Ten Commandments Scroll To Be Featured At The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library (Reagan Foundation press release). SIMI V...

Biblical Studies Carnival 226

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ZWINGLIUS REDIVIVUS: The March Carnival: A Special Edition- Agade (Jim West). Some of you are familiar with Jack Sasson’s brilliant email l...

Bentley Layton (1941-2025)

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SAD NEWS: Bentley Layton, distinguished Coptic linguist and scholar of ancient Christianity (YaleNews). Bentley Layton, the pre-eminent sch...

On the Coptic “Pillow Psalter”

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: The “Pillow Psalter” Returns. The Oldest Complete Book of Psalms is Back on Display (Marek Dospěl). One of the most t...
Tuesday, April 01, 2025

Assyrian New Year 2025

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THE ASSYRIAN NEW YEAR 6775 is celebrated today: President Rashid congratulates the Babylonian-Assyrian New Year (Iraqi News Agency). The Pr...

Relocating the Valley of Rephaim?

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HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY: Archaeologist proposes new location for Biblical Rephaim Valley. New research suggests the Rephaim Valley may have be...

More Egyptian Book of the Dead fragments recovered

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MUSEUM EXCAVATION: Outstanding discovery in Trento: fragments of a very rare Egyptian papyrus found (Redazione, Finestre sull'Arte). Id...
Monday, March 31, 2025

Podcast interview with Emanuel Tov on the scribes of Qumran

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THE STONE CHAPEL PODCAST with David Capes has a two-part interview with renowned Dead Sea Scrolls scholar Emanuel Tov. Transcripts included ...

Review panel on Neis, When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven (3-4)

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW has published two more essays in its review panel on Rafael Rachel Neis. When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and ...

Kitchen obituary

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Milestones: Kenneth A. Kitchen (1932–2025). Leading Egyptologist who connected Egyptian and biblical history (James K...
Sunday, March 30, 2025

Schmied, Anklage Gottes im Midrasch zu den Klageliedern (Mohr Siebeck)

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NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK: Mareike Schmied Anklage Gottes im Midrasch zu den Klageliedern Eine Studie zu den Transformat...
Saturday, March 29, 2025

Chapman, The Victorians and the Holy Land (Eerdmans)

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NEW BOOK FROM EERDMANS: The Victorians and the Holy Land Adventurers, Tourists, and Archaeologists in the Lands of the Bible by Allan...
Friday, March 28, 2025

Jug decorated with camels etc. excavated in Negev

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THERIO-ORNAMENTAL CERAMICS: Archaeologists in Negev unearth 1,200-year-old jug decorated with camels. Artifact daubed with red pattern and ...