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Saturday, May 10, 2025

Nir, Characterization in Midrash and Medieval Jewish Bible Commentaries (SBL)

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NEW BOOK FROM SBL PRESS: Characterization in Midrash and Medieval Jewish Bible Commentaries Sivan Nir ISBN 9781628376142 Volume BibRec ...
Friday, May 09, 2025

A new Regius Professor of Hebrew at Cambridge

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ANNOUNCEMENT: Aaron Koller joins AMES. Aaron Koller joins AMES as the new Regius Professor of Hebrew (Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern ...

Review of Llewellyn-Jones, The Cleopatras

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: The Cleopatras: the forgotten queens of Egypt . Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, The Cleopatras: the forgotten queens of E...

The Text Lab

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Introducing the Text Lab: Helping Students Engage with Ancient Sources (Alexander Chantziantoniou and Isaac Soon). This...
Thursday, May 08, 2025

On the Behistun inscription in Aramaic

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BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: Authority, Assimilation and Afterlife of the Epilogue of Bīsotūn (DB 4:36–92) . This post flags an important open-...

Karatepe bilingual inscriptions added to UNESCO Memory of the World International Register

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PHOENICIAN WATCH: Karatepe Aslantas inscriptions enter UNESCO Memory of World Register (Türkiye Today Newsroom). The ancient bilingual insc...

More Philodemus from Herculaneum

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TECHNOLOGY WATCH: X-ray reveals ancient Greek author of charred first century BC Vesuvius scroll. Ink traces show text is part of work by E...
Wednesday, May 07, 2025

On Jannes and Jambres, with an important announcement

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ETHNIC RELATIONS AND MIGRATION IN THE ANCIENT WORLD: Egyptian / Persian / Judean wisdom: Judean legends of Jannes and Jambres as Magians in ...

Review of Lang, Handbook of the Vulgate Bible and its reception (open access)

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Handbook of the Vulgate Bible and its reception Bernhard Lang, Handbook of the Vulgate Bible and its reception. ...

Conference: The Achaemenid Persian Empire and its Non-Western Borderlands: A Change of Paradigm (Innsbruck)

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BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: The Achaemenid Persian Empire and its Non-Western Borderlands: A Change of Paradigm . At Innsbruck University, Aus...
Tuesday, May 06, 2025

Ptolemaic and Roman-era military fortifications excavated in North Sinai

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ARCHAEOLOGY: Fortress discovered in Northern Sinai, including Roman-era soldiers' dwellings. Well-preserved Roman-era soldiers' dwe...

Masoretic Text variants in Rabbinic quotations

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PROF. SIMCHA KOGUT: Variants in the Masoretic Text: From Talmud to Rashi (TheTorah.com). Rabbinic quotations of the Bible differ in some in...

Tony Burke's Regensburg Year: April

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THE APOCRYPHICITY BLOG: My Regensburg Year Part 9: April 2025 . Tony Burke is on research sabbatical for the 2024-25 academic year at the...
Monday, May 05, 2025

Educational excavation at Chorazin

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ARCHAEOLOGY: Tourists and Child Archaeologists Break New Ground at Ancient Chorazin. Sixth-graders unearth homes near the synagogue of Chor...

NEH funding canceled for Critical Edition of the Hebrew Psalter Project

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AN UNFORTUNATE DECISION: Trump Cuts to Humanities Grants Undermine a Stated Priority: Restoring Religion (YONAT SHIMRON, RNS [reportedly - ...

Teen Bible contest opens the Codex Sassoon exhibit

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EXHIBITION COMPETITION: Jewish teens from around the world compete in International Bible Contest in Tel Aviv. Teens showcase biblical know...
Sunday, May 04, 2025

Vidas, The Rise of Talmud (OUP)

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NEW BOOK FROM OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS: The Rise of Talmud Moulie Vidas The Bible and the Humanities £119.00 Hardback Publis...
Saturday, May 03, 2025

Najman, Scriptural Vitality (OUP, open access)

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NEW BOOK FROM OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS: Scriptural Vitality Rethinking Philology and Hermeneutics Hindy Najman The Bible and the Huma...
Friday, May 02, 2025

Mysterious ancient lion-head bronze discs

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THERIOMORPHIC ICONOGRAPHIC ARTIFACTS: Unique and Mysterious Lions-Head Bronze Discs Found in Roman Tomb in Israel (Unattributed, Ancient Or...

The Codex Sassoon is going on display in Israel

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EXHIBITION: Sassoon Codex, world’s oldest Hebrew Bible to date, to join ANU permanent collection. The museum will be hosting a series of ev...