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Saturday, April 26, 2025

Khan Festschrift (Open Book)

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CONGRATULATIONS TO GEOFFREY KHAN on the two-volume Festschrift in his honour published by Open Book Publishers. Interconnected Traditions...
Friday, April 25, 2025

More on the Ostia mikveh, etc.

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VARIANT READINGS: More on the mikveh at Ostia and Other Jewish Materials (Brent Nongbri). Including information on the Jewish materials ...

Satlow on AI and Word Similarity in the Talmud

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MICHAEL L. SATLOW: Word Similarity in the Talmud . Professor Satlow has an ongoing project "to explore ways in which AI and machine lea...

Aramaic postdoc in Madrid

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ARAMAIC WATCH; REPOSTED FROM THE AGADE LIST: From Jonathan Valk (jonathan.valk@gmail.com): ==================== The ERC-funded ARAMAIZATIO...

Open-access titles from Project Muse

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THE AWOL BLOG notes some open-access Brown Judaic Studies monographs, all reprinted in 2020 by Project Muse: Ben Sira’s View of Women: A L...
Thursday, April 24, 2025

Caviezel, Gibson, Passion of the Christ 2, and the fall of the angels?

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CINEMA: Passion of the Christ 2: Jim Caviezel Explains Different Mindset for Sequel (Anthony Nash, ComingSoon.net). Jim Caviezel is current...

More on the Punic lack of Levantine ancestry

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PUNIC WATCH, UPDATE: Who Were the Carthaginians? Ancient DNA Study Reveals a Stunning Answer Carthage and its empire were established by Ph...

Why so many churches in the late-antique Levant?

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SOCIAL-ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECONSTRUCTION: Private churches and public synagogues – how devotion and ambition shaped the religious landscape of I...

Hybrid Lecture: Alexander the Great in Jerusalem and the Origins of the Alexander Romance

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UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL: Alexander the Great in Jerusalem and the Origins of the Alexander Romance The ACE [Archaeology, Classics and Egyp...
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

MOTP2: Introduction to the Book of Giants

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THE BIBLE AND INTEPRETATION: The Descent of Heavenly Beings to Earth from the Book of Giants The Book of Giants survives, in a highly fra...

On Dalton, How Rabbis Became Experts (Princeton)

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: From Dinner to Donor: the Social Exchanges at the Heart of Rabbinic Expertise ( Krista Dalton). How Rabbis Became Exper...

BIAJS 2025 Student Essay Prize

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NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS: Open for 2025: BIAJS 2025 Student Essay Prize Deadline for Submissions: 16 June 2025 We are delighted to an...
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Antiquities seized in Dimona

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APPREHENDED: Police find ancient treasures, weapons in Dimona antiquities probe. A Dimona resident was detained for questioning after the s...

Permanent Hebrew Bible Lectureship at KCL

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THE TIMES HIGHER: Lecturer in Hebrew Bible Employer KINGS COLLEGE LONDON Location London (Greater) (GB) Salary £44,105 - £51,485 ...

Nancy Lapp (1930–2025)

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SAD NEWS FROM BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Milestones: Nancy Lapp (1930–2025). Pioneering biblical archaeologist (Morag Kersel and Meredith Chesso...
Monday, April 21, 2025

First review of MOTP2

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READING ACTS: James R. Davila and Richard Bauckham, eds. Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, vol. 2: More Noncanonical Scriptures (Phil Long). Da...

Syriac text-excerpting and the Talmud?

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SYRIAC WATCH MEETS TALMUD WATCH: Could AI solve the enigmas of ancient Talmud-like Christian manuscripts in Aramaic? An Israeli researcher ...

Jesus' crucifixion and a lunar eclipse?

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BELATEDLY EASTER/GOOD FRIDAY-RELATED: Lunar eclipse over Jerusalem may mark date of Jesus's crucifixion, NASA reports. some believe tha...
Sunday, April 20, 2025

Easter 2025

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HAPPY EASTER to all those celebrating. The Easter post for 2023 is here with links. And a few loosely Easter-related posts from 2023-24 ar...

Unruly Books (T&T Clark)

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NEW BOOK FROM BLOOMSBURY/T&T CLARK: Unruly Books Rethinking Ancient and Academic Imaginations of Religious Texts Esther Brow...