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Saturday, April 18, 2026

The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 3

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NEW BOOK FROM YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 3 Encountering Christianity and Islam, ...
Friday, April 17, 2026

The Copper Scroll in the news

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NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE: A viral social media post is reminding the world that one Dead Sea Scroll is not scripture but a copper-engraved inve...

Review of Karla and Konstan, Life of Aesop the Philosopher

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BYRN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Life of Aesop the Philosopher . Grammatiki A. Karla, David Konstan, Life of Aesop the Philosopher. Writings fro...

Safaee, Women of the empire (Brill)

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BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: Women of the Empire . Notice of a New Book: Safaee, Yazdan. 2026. Women of the empire: Life and labor in the Achaemen...
Thursday, April 16, 2026

Moses of Crete, "the drowning messiah"

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MESSIANISM: Moses of Crete: The ‘Messiah’ Who Promised to Part the Sea and Led Hundreds to Death (Nick Kampouris, The Greek Reporter). In t...

The siegeworks of the Roman conquest of Jerusalem

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: The Roman Conquest of Jerusalem. How were the siegeworks deployed around the city? (Clinton J. Moyer). The Roman army...

Pharaoh Tiberius?

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EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY: Ancient Egyptian stone monument depicting a Roman emperor as a pharaoh discovered in Luxor. A stone slab depicting th...
Wednesday, April 15, 2026

On biocodicology

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TECHNOLOGY WATCH: How DNA forensics is transforming studies of ancient manuscripts. Scientists are exposing the biological information hidd...

More on that Ark of the Covenant docudrama

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CINEMA: EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: 'Legends of the Lost Ark' docudrama: Archaeologist Chris McKinney investigates fate of the biblical art...

U of Iowa project funded to reconstruct ancient manuscripts

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TECHNOLOGY WATCH: UI professor repairs damaged ancient manuscripts with AI. Paul Dilley received a $500,000 grant from Schmidt Sciences to ...
Tuesday, April 14, 2026

What's in the Herculaneum papyri? What might be?

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HERCULANEUM WATCH: The Latin Problem: BYU's Roger Macfarlane on What We Have — and Haven't — Found in the Herculaneum Papyri (Utah ...

Reports of bombed antiquities sites in Israel and Lebanon

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THIS IS WAR: There are reports of the bombing of antiquities sites in northern Israel and Lebanon. Hezbollah rocket hits remains of 1,500-y...

39 more Lebanese sites under enhanced cultural protection

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: 39 Sites in Lebanon Gain UNESCO Protection. Why it matters for biblical history and beyond (Lauren K. McCormick). In ...
Monday, April 13, 2026

Review of The Oxford handbook of the Hellenistic and Roman Near East

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BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: The Oxford handbook of the Hellenistic and Roman Near East . The Oxford handbook of the Hellenistic and Roman Ne...

Eight 3,000-year-old scrolls excavated in Egypt

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YET ANOTHER SCROLL DISCOVERY: Valuable discovery in Egypt reveals 3,000-year-old scrolls with secret messages still unread. Cache of coffin...

How old is the layout of the MT Hebrew Bible?

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GENIZA FRAGMENT OF THE MONTH (FEBRUARY 2026): Scrolls, Stratigraphy and the Song of the Sea: Re-examining Ashkar-Gilson (Kim Phillips). Th...
Sunday, April 12, 2026

Arnold, The Cambridge Introduction to the Old Testament (2nd ed., paperback)

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NEW PAPERBACK FROM CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS: The Cambridge Introduction to the Old Testament Edition: 2nd Edition Author: Bill T. Arn...
Saturday, April 11, 2026

Dever, For Those Who Sleep in the Dust (SBL)

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NEW BOOK FROM SBL PRESS: For Those Who Sleep in the Dust: Essays on Archaeology and the Bible William G. Dever ISBN 9781628376470 Statu...
Friday, April 10, 2026

Reopenings in Israel

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IN ISRAEL, museums and holy sites are starting to reopen during the ceasefire: Museums begin to reopen in Israel following ceasefire (Jess...

Revisiting the God-fearer Thesis

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THE BIBLE AND INTERPRETATION: Revisiting the God-Fearers The widely accepted “god-fearer” thesis rests on weak foundations: the ancient ...