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Saturday, November 22, 2025

Bremmer, Jews, Pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire (Mohr Siebeck)

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NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK: Jan N. Bremmer Jews, Pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire Collected Essays III 2025...
Friday, November 21, 2025

Pre-exilic linguistic dating of Isaiah 40-66?

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THE BIBLE AND INTERPRETATION: Refining Linguistic Dating of Biblical Texts: Methodological Considerations for Future Use My analysis sugge...

Civil Administration expropriating land around Sebastia

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POLITICS AND ARCHAEOLOGY: Israel begins seizing 1,800 dunams of West Bank land to develop archaeological site. Civil Administration says de...

Faux Phoenician purple?

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SARTORIAL ARCHAEOLOGY: A 2,000-Year-Old Fashion Fraud: Roman Textiles Imitated Royal Murex Purple (Leman Altuntaş, Arkeonews). Ancient text...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

Anneli Aejmelaeus (1948-2025)

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SAD NEWS: Anneli Aejmelaeus, RIP (Drew Longacre, The OTTC Blog). Prof. Aejmelaeus passed away a few days ago. Many tributes are coming i...

The Poetics of Prophecy series - author response

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Listening to the Static: An Author Response (Yosefa Raz). The Poetics of Prophecy , then, presents the tension between ...

Ancient dueling Abraham exegesis

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DR. THOMAS R. BLANTON IV, PROF. NOAH BENJAMIN BICKART: Observance or Faith? Jews and Christians Contend Over Abraham’s Legacy (TheTorah.com...

TC has moved and has a new volume out (30, 2025)

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THE ETC BLOG: New issue: TC Journal 30 (2025) at a New Home (Tommy Wasserman). Big News about TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism ...

Behemoth in the Book of Job

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BIBLICAL MONSTER WATCH: The Terrifying Behemoth of the Book of Job. Job 40 presents the behemoth as an imposing and powerful creature comfo...
Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Hendel on textual criticism

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THE BIBLE AND INTEPRETATION: Farewell to Textual Criticism? Instead of abandoning textual criticism, scholars should embrace the productiv...

PEF boycott over excavations in Judea and Samaria

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ARCHAEOLOGY AND POLITICS: UK’s PEF to boycott Israeli archaeologists over Judea & Samaria excavations. The Palestine Exploration Fund a...

New materials tests on the Jordanian lead codices

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UNVERSITY OF SURREY PRESS RELEASE: Disputed Jordan codices reveal age variations under ion-beam scrutiny (edited by Lisa Lock, reviewed by ...

Ross's conversation about ancient Greek dictionaries

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WILLIAM A. ROSS: NEW PUBLICATIONS: PART 4 . This volume is edited by Ilan Stavans, who is Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities and Latin Am...
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

How ancient was the Jewish presence in Malta?

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HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY: Malta Jewish Heritage. An interview with Stanley Cassar Darien (Moment Magazine, 2025 November/December). Most...

An Aramaic inscription in Türkiye

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ARAMAIC WATCH: Ancient Aramaic inscription uncovered in rural Ardahan now under study at Kars Archaeology Museum (Türkiye Today). An Aramai...

Christian Apocrypha and Old Testament Pseudepigrapha at SBL

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THE APOCRYPHICITY BLOG: Christian Apocrypha Books to Look for at SBL 2025 (Tony Burke). The SBL Annual Meeting presents an ideal opportunit...
Monday, November 17, 2025

A Bronze Age ANE creation story?

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ARCHAIC COSMOGNONIC ICONOGRAPHY: This story has been getting a lot of attention. For a brief overview: World’s Oldest Cosmogony. Bronze Ag...

The Carpenter's Son debuts in the USA

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CINEMA MEETS NEW TESTAMENT APOCRYPHA WATCH: The Carpenter's Son is now out. Here are a couple of reviews: The Carpenter’s Son (James M...

BAS 2025 Publication Awards

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: BAS 2025 Publication Awards Winners (Jennifer Drummond). The categories are Best Book on the Hebrew Bible, Best Boo...
Sunday, November 16, 2025

Wiggershaus, The Man of Opened Eye (Gorgias)

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NEW BOOK FROM GORGIAS PRESS: The Man of Opened Eye Ancient Near Eastern Revelatory Convention and the Balaam Cycle By B. Wiggershaus P...