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Saturday, June 20, 2026

Porter & Laird (eds.), The New Testament Canon in Contemporary Research (Brill)

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: The New Testament Canon in Contemporary Research Series: Texts and Editions for New Testament Study, Volume: 21 V...
Friday, June 19, 2026

Fraenkel on ... Confrontation Stories among Rabbis in the Babylonian Talmud

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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Reading Conflict in the Babylonian Talmud: Behind The Fragility of the Mind (Yuval Fraenkel). A Publication Preview of ...

Hendel, Cultural Memory in the Hebrew Bible (CUP, temporarily open access)

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NEW (BRIEF) BOOK FROM CAMBRIDGE ELEMENTS: Cultural Memory in the Hebrew Bible Genesis to Kings Published online by Cambridge Univers...

A first-century synagogue at Tel Rekhesh

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Synagogues Jesus and Mary Magdalene Knew. Observing early Judaism at Tel Rekhesh (Lauren K. McCormick). To date, abou...
Thursday, June 18, 2026

A contentious West Bank archaeology conference in Jerusalem

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POLITICS AND ARCHAEOLOGY: West Bank archaeology conference unearths controversy as politics takes center stage. Jerusalem event attracts hu...

A mother-of-pearl, Indo-Pacific, Assyrian amulet-seal, oh my!

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ANCIENT MATERIAL (MULTI-)CULTURE: Rare mother-of-pearl seal highlights movement of goods and ideas across Assyrian empire. The 2,600-year-o...

The glorious imaginary Temple(s) in the Dead Sea Scrolls

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Teasing the Temple in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Thinking through the dimensions with Lawrence Schiffman (Clinton J. Moyer...
Wednesday, June 17, 2026

On AI, golems, and the Pope

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ALGORITHM WATCH MEETS GOLEM WATCH: AI, Magnifica Humanitas , and the Law of the Golem (Seth C. Oranburg, Public Discourse). The Talmudic an...

Ḥadashot Arkheologiyot Volume 138 (2026)

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HADASHOT ARKHEOLOGIYOT–Excavations and Surveys in Israel has a new volume out with articles in English and Hebrew . Visit PaleoJudaica da...

How the Hebrew Bible became Christian Scripture

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THE BIBLE AND INTERPRETATION: How the Hebrew Bible Became a Christian Book Medieval and early Christian biblical traditions developed thro...
Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Scrolls or unidentified rectangular objects?

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VARIANT READINGS: The Iconography of Jewish Scrolls in the Roman Era (Brent Nongbri). As far as I know, that is about the extent of the vis...

The first (bad) book on an apocryphal gospel?

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THE ANXIOUS BENCH: Finding The First Book Ever Written On A Hidden Gospel (Philip Jenkins). The Gospel of the Hebrews thus mattered greatly...

Was there a real Tower of Babel?

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MYTHOLOGICAL MONUMENTAL ARCHITECTURE? Was there a real Tower of Babel? This temple is the leading contender. Many archaeologists believe th...
Monday, June 15, 2026

Busts of "Lycurgus" and his shaggy friend found in salvage excavation

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ANCIENT STATUARY: 'Once-in-a-lifetime Discovery': Intact 1,700-year-old Roman Busts Found in Israel. Buried in a disused Roman-Byza...

Sifting Project lectures at the 50th Archaeological Congress

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THE TEMPLE MOUNT SIFTING PROJECT: THE SIFTING PROJECT AT THE 50TH ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONGRESS: A SEAL IMPRESSION FROM THE DAYS OF JOSIAH AND THE...

Online Oxford LXX Seminar: Synagogues and the Septuagint in the Late Second Temple Period

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WILLIAM A. ROSS: (VIRTUAL) OXFORD SEPTUAGINT SEMINAR, 17 JUNE . Details for the next seminar, available virtually, are as follows: Oxford S...
Sunday, June 14, 2026

Di Vito Festschrift (Gorgias)

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NEW BOOK FROM GORGIAS PRESS: “Where Were You When I Founded the Earth?” Essays on Primeval and Deuteronomistic History and their Reception ...
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 ...