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Saturday, July 04, 2026

Independence Day 2026

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HAPPY 250TH INDEPENDENCE DAY TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA! I can remember the Bicentennial celebrations. Wow. Visit PaleoJudaica d...

Knight-Messenger, The Place of Court Tales in the Hebrew Bible and Early Jewish Literature (T&T Clark)

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NEW BOOK FROM BLOOMSBURY/T&T CLARK: The Place of Court Tales in the Hebrew Bible and Early Jewish Literature Form, Development, and ...
Friday, July 03, 2026

Did Herod build a tomb in the Cave of Machpelah?

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ARCHIVAL ARCHAEOLOGY: Herod built a secret tomb for himself inside the Cave of Machpelah, Israeli researchers reveal (Tamar Stein, Israel36...

Nora's western (Phoenician/Punic) necropolis reopens

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PHOENICIAN AND PUNIC WATCH: Nora's western necropolis opens to the public after 90 years: "A historic day for the island, with cent...

Does the Bible prohibit intermarriage with non-Israelites?

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DR. EVE LEVAVI FEINSTEIN: The Making of the Biblical Prohibition of Intermarriage (TheTorah.com). Does the Bible prohibit intermarriage wit...
Thursday, July 02, 2026

Turbo footnotes in the Victorian era

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THE ANXIOUS BENCH: On Gnostics, Essenes, Footnotes, And The History Of Reading (Philip Jenkins). I have been working on the discovery of al...

Did Joseph have a wife (wives?) before Mary?

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: The Question of Mary’s Perpetual Virginity. Considering the brothers and sisters of Jesus with Helen Bond (Lauren K. ...

The first complete French translation of the Talmud

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TALMUD WATCH: The first complete French translation of the Talmud is complete. The complete translation project of the Talmud was launched ...
Wednesday, July 01, 2026

More on the "Tracing Scribes and Scrolls" project

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RESEARCH FUNDING: EU Funding Huge Project on the Origins of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Dead Sea Scrolls were written over centuries, and now...

A new excavation at the Iron Age II eastern Ophel in Jerusalem

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TEMPLE MOUNT (CORNER) WATCH: Why Excavate Area E on Jerusalem’s Ophel? The next opportunity to reveal Jerusalem’s royal quarter (BRENT NAG...

Gardner, The Letters of Mani (OUP)

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BIBLOGRAPHIA IRANICA: The Letters of Mani . Notice of a New Book: Gardner, Iain. 2026. The Letters of Mani. A Lost Scripture of the Late Ant...
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

A literal "hair of the dog" remedy from Ugarit?

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Nursing a Hangover in the Biblical World. A “hair of the dog” remedy from Ugarit (Lauren K. McCormick). Remarkably, a...

The Hexapla Institute reloaded

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THE ETC BLOG: The Hexapla Institute Relaunched (John Meade). The Hexapla Institute was founded in 2001 to publish a “Field for the Twenty-F...

Fetching and stripping biblical texts?

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THE OTTC BLOG: WebApp for Estimating Scroll Dimensions (Drew Longacre). Potentially useful for reconstructing fragmentary biblical scrolls ...
Monday, June 29, 2026

Report on the "Christology Within Judaism" Enoch Seminar

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RELIGION PROF: Christology Within Judaism (Enoch Seminar June 2026) (James F. McGrath). Our focus at this meeting was on messianisms (inclu...

Chazon on the origin of fixed communal prayer

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PROF. ESTHER CHAZON: The Origin of Fixed Communal Prayer: Evidence from Qumran (TheTorah.com). The discoveries from the caves of Qumran yie...

ERC awards "Tracing Scribes and Scrolls" project €2.5M

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RESEARCH FUNDING: Mladen Popović awarded ERC Advanced Grant to trace the origins of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Professor Mladen Popović has been...
Sunday, June 28, 2026

Barer, Going Off Script (OUP)

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NEW BOOK FROM OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS: Going Off Script Improvisational Judgment in the Talmud Deborah Barer £68.00 Hardback Pub...
Saturday, June 27, 2026

(Con)textual Perspectives on the Dead Sea Scrolls (Chazon Festschrift, Brill)

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NEW BOOK FROM BRILL: (Con)textual Perspectives on the Dead Sea Scrolls Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Orion Symposium, Febru...
Friday, June 26, 2026

Ancient Anatolian Mithraeum was closed by Syriac Christians

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ARAMAIC WATCH: Ancient Aramaic inscription reveals early Christians sealed Türkiye's Mithras Temple (Türkiye Today). {The decipherer, P...