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Saturday, December 13, 2025

Harris, Religious Experience and Divinization in the Sectarian Dead Sea Scrolls (Brill)

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: Religious Experience and Divinization in the Sectarian Dead Sea Scrolls Living in the Liminal Series: Supplement...
Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Assyrian inscriptions that mention Israelite kings

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: The Kurkh Monolith and Black Obelisk. References to Ancient Israel in Assyrian Texts (Nathan Steinmeyer). This is the...
Monday, December 08, 2025

Excavating Jerusalem's Hasmonean-era city wall

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ANCIENT FORTIFICATION: Huge Section of Jerusalem's 'First' City Wall Found Beneath Prison. Hasmonean Jerusalem had a bristling ...

Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day 2025

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IT'S THAT DAY AGAIN: Pretend To Be A Time Traveler Day (Days of the Year). Pretend To Be A Time Traveler Day was created in 2007 by Sen...

Ancient glass ring found by Sifting Project volunteer

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THE TEMPLE MOUNT SIFTING PROJECT: FINDER AND FIND OF THE MONTH: IRÈNE POLLAK-REIN AND THE GLASS RING . Glass rings were popular in the Roman...
Sunday, December 07, 2025

3-4 Maccabees and the Apocalypse of Baruch According to the Syriac Peshitta Version with English Translation (Gorgias)

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NEW BOOK FROM GORGIAS PRESS: 3-4 Maccabees and the Apocalypse of Baruch According to the Syriac Peshitta Version with English Translation ...
Saturday, December 06, 2025

Ogden, Proverbs 1–9 (SBL/Sheffield Phoenix)

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NEW BOOK FROM SBL (SHEFFIELD PHOENIX) PRESS: Proverbs 1–9 Graham S. Ogden ISBN 9781914490705 Status Available Publication Date June 20...
Friday, December 05, 2025

Ruins of an ancient palace excavated at Sartaba-Alexandrium

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ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE: Israeli archaeologists uncover remains of dramatic mountaintop royal palace. “It sheds light on the architectural sty...

Israel seizes artifacts from damaged West Bank site

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CONFISCATED: Israel seizes rare artifacts in Palestinian villa built atop major archaeological site. Civil Administration inspectors recove...

"Lost" Languages That Shaped Culture

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PHILOLOGY: Lost Languages That Shaped Culture (ADAM GARCIA, Go2Tutors). Languages die all the time. Scholars estimate that one language dis...
Thursday, December 04, 2025

Lucian of Samosata—a Syrian barbarian?

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ARAMAIC WATCH: Lucian of Samosata: ܠܘܩܝܰܢܳܣ ܫܰܡܝܼܫܰܛܳܝܐ (Denho Bar Mourad–Özmen, Syriac Press). Lucian of Samosata is far more than a Greek...

Noah's administrative calendar?

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MICHAEL L. SATLOW: The Calendar Before Chaos . It is plausible, but speculative, that the authors of P were close enough to the scribal and ...

The site of Ur is being renovated

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CONSERVATION: Iraq preparing $14.5 million renovation of ancient city of Ur. The head of the General Authority for Antiquities and Heritage...
Wednesday, December 03, 2025

The narrative "hypothesis" behind the Gospels

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: The Hypothesis of the Gospels (Ian N. Mills) An author's summary of Ian N. Mills, The Hypothesis of the Gospels:...

Les stèles puniques de Carthage au musée du Louvre

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THE AWOL BLOG: Les stèles puniques de Carthage au musée du Louvre: Des offrandes à Tanit et à Baal Hammon . An open-access online catalog...
Tuesday, December 02, 2025

The last Hasmonean princess

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HANUKKAH IS COMING: Miriam: The Last Jewish Princess. The Hanukkah miracle sparked a century of Jewish sovereignty—and a princess whose mar...

Another review of Perrin, Lost Words and Forgotten Worlds

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Rediscovering the Dead Sea Scrolls. An accessible introduction to the scrolls and their significance (Abigail Naidu )...

The Josephus Christianus project

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THE AWOL BLOG: Josephus Christianus: The Reception of Josephus in Greek Christian Literature (2nd - 15th Cent. CE) . A new, multi-institutio...
Monday, December 01, 2025

Who goads God in the Aqedah?

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PROF. KRISTEN H. LINDBECK: The Satan Provokes God into Testing Job and Abraham (TheTorah.com). Why would God make righteous people suffer j...

Dream divination in the Exagoge of Ezekiel

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OLD TESTAMENT PSEUDEPIGRAPHA WATCH: Signs of Dream Divination in the Exagoge of Ezekiel the Tragedian, 68–89: Hypotexts, Tragedy, and Jewish...