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Saturday, June 13, 2026

Van Henten Feschrift (Brill)

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: Tyrants, Heroes, Prophets, and Martyrs Shifting Images from the Past to the Present Series: Studies in Theology a...
Friday, June 12, 2026

That British Museum lecture was a success

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UPDATE: British Museum event on Ancient Israel and Judah draws largest audience of Jewish Culture Month (Board of Deputies of British Jews)...

The rest of the review series on Vidas, The Rise of Talmud

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW has continued its review series on Moulie Vidas's book, The Rise of Talmud . I was away for a bit and got behind on ...

The Ketef Hinnom silver amulets as ritual texts

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DR JEREMY D. SMOAK: The Ketef Hinnom Amulets: Wearing the Priestly Blessing for Protection (TheTorah.com). Inscribed in silver and rolled i...
Thursday, June 11, 2026

That British Museum lecture on ancient Israel is this afternoon

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RESCHEDULED: New date confirmed for postponed British Museum ancient Israel lecture. Jewish Culture Month event will now take place on 11 J...

Proverbs used Egyptian scribal techniques?

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PROF. BERND U. SCHIPPER: Proverbs in Egyptian Scribal Style (TheTorah.com). The parallels between Proverbs 22:17–23:11 and the Egyptian Ins...

Are the Nag Hammadi codices a "library?"

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NAG HAMMADI WATCH: The hunt for the Gnostics, Christianity’s bogeyman. For decades, the Gnostic Gospels were widely believed to have been a...

Hannibal movie paused

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CINEMA AND PUNIC WATCH: Netflix Pauses Denzel Washington and Antoine Fuqua’s Hannibal War Movie Over Budget Concerns (Angelique Jackson, Ni...

Fraenkel ... Confrontation Stories among Rabbis in the Babylonian Talmud (Magnes, Hebrew)

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NEW BOOK (IN HEBREW) FROM MAGNES PRESS: The Fragility of the Mind Confrontation Stories among Rabbis in the Babylonian Talmud By: Yuval Fr...
Wednesday, June 10, 2026

What do the Phoenician inscriptions say?

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: The Phoenician Alphabet in Archaeology. What did the Phoenicians record with their innovative script? (Josephine Quin...

Did the Phoenicians give us democracy?

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THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST TODAY: Did the Phoenicians Bring Democracy to Greece? (Brett Kaufman). Democracy therefore evolved as a form of polit...
Tuesday, June 09, 2026

Aberbach, Ancient Bible Interpretation and its Legacies (Routledge)

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NEW BOOK FROM ROUTLEDGE: Ancient Bible Interpretation and its Legacies Politics, Literature, and Heresy By David Aberbach Copyri...

The silver trumpets of Numbers 10, with pictures and sound!

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THE BIBLE AND INTERPRETATION: The Silver Trumpets of Numbers 10 The silver trumpet from Tutankhamun’s tomb offers a striking material para...

A Turoyo version of the Syriac Bible?

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(NEO-)ARAMAIC WATCH: Syriac Peshitta Bible now available in Turoyo (Surayt) in the Qadishapp (Syriac Press). TUR ABDIN — To strengthen the ...
Monday, June 08, 2026

Is the Siloam Tunnel Inscription an accident memorial?

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Was the Siloam Inscription a Message for the Dead? Rethinking the Siloam Tunnel with Ariel Cohen (Lauren K. McCormick...

Recovering biometric data from ancient bullae?

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HEBREW EPIGRAPHY AND ANCIENT MATERIAL CULTURE: Fingerprints of Artisans and Officials Discovered on the Backs of Clay Seals from Ancient Jer...

Digitizing ancient inscriptions.

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MICHAEL L. SATLOW: How Do You Teach a Computer to Read a Broken Ancient Inscription? It's complicated. Digitizing an inscription into E...
Sunday, June 07, 2026

Klein, Between the Lines (Gorgias)

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NEW BOOK FROM GORGIAS PRESS: Between the Lines The Literary and Ideological Shaping of Judah’s Genealogies in the Book of Chronicles By N...
Saturday, June 06, 2026

JiSeong James Kwon, Wisdom Discourse and Torah in Second Temple Judaism (SBL)

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NEW BOOK FROM SBL PRESS: Wisdom Discourse and Torah in Second Temple Judaism: Challenging the Integration Paradigm JiSeong James Kwon IS...
Friday, June 05, 2026

Reconstructing a very old Torah scroll

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THE GENIZA FRAGMENTS BLOG: What’s My Line? Reconstructing CUL T-S NS 3.21+ (Marc Michaels). Likely the oldest Torah in the Cairo Genizah, C...