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Saturday, August 01, 2026

Newsom & Schuller, The Thanksgiving Scroll (OUP)

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NEW BOOK FROM OXFORD UNVERSITY PRESS: The Thanksgiving Scroll Carol A. Newsom and Eileen M. Schuller Oxford Commentary on the Dea...
Friday, July 31, 2026

On ancient Jewish court tales

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THE BIBLE AND INTEPRETATION: New Perspectives on Court Tales in the Hebrew Bible and Early Jewish Literature Evidence from the Dead Sea Sc...

Tanit-faced incense-burner excavated in Iberia?

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PUNIC WATCH: The Face of Tanit, the Goddess of Life and Death, Returns to Alicante After 2,200 Years. The incense burner found intact in th...

Tu B'Av 2026, belatedly

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THE FESTIVAL OF TU B'AV was on the 28th-29th of July this year. Best wishes to all those who celebrated. Tu B'Av (which just means...
Wednesday, July 29, 2026

Esther in the Dura-Europos synagogue murals

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CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF NEW ENGLAND BLOG: Dura Europos and Esther (Ruth Breindel). HT Rogue Classicism . To conclude: the story of Esther ...

Tesla sent 1 Enoch to a customer instead of their solar lease contract?

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WAIT, WHAT? Tesla Solar Account Glitch: The Book of Enoch, Explained in 5 Points (BASENOR Editorial Desk). A Tesla solar lease customer log...

West Bank looting arrest

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APPREHENDED NUMISMATICS: Thousands of ancient artifacts recovered in Judea and Samaria looting case. The suspect was found carrying metal d...
Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Arshama and the satrapal houses

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THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST TODAY: The House of Aršāma, Persian Satrap in Egypt (Rhyne King). Aršāma’s was in many ways an exemplary satrapal hou...

More on that female figurine face mold from Jerusalem

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ANTHROPOMORPHIC CAST-ART UPDATE: The story has been getting some attention, with two new articles worth noting: First Temple-era mold off...

Three lost Neo-Assyrian kings discovered?

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ASSYRIOLOGY: Watch the Throne: Uncovering three new kings of Assyria. A new study co-written by Yale’s Eckart Frahm provides evidence that ...
Monday, July 27, 2026

Evidence of ancient Cypriot coin inflation from an Israeli beach?

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NUMISMATICS: 'Debased' Cypriot Coin From 2,500 Years Ago Found on Israeli Beach Generally, the siglos was made of silver, but this ...

First-temple-era female figurine mold excavated at Tower of David in Jerusalem

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ANTHROPOMORPHIC CAST-ART: Rare First Temple mold discovered beneath Tower of David. (Israel National News). Debbi Ben-Ami, Curator of the ...

Real and forged lost ancient books of the Renaissance

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THE ANXIOUS BENCH: Forging Spirituality In Renaissance Europe (Philip Jenkins). We have all heard of the modern rediscovery of ancient scri...
Sunday, July 26, 2026

Binder, Tertullian and the Jews in Early Christian Literary Imagination (CUP)

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NEW BOOK FROM CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS: Tertullian and the Jews in Early Christian Literary Imagination Series: Elements in Early Chri...
Saturday, July 25, 2026

The Scrolls of the Torah (Mohr Siebeck)

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NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK: The Scrolls of the Torah Material, Compositional and Interpretive Perspectives Edited by Jan Christi...
Friday, July 24, 2026

What is happening in Sebastia?

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POLITICS AND ARCHAEOLOGY: ‘Weaponization of cultural heritage’: Israel accuses PA of exploiting UNESCO in bid for Sebastia. The 450-acre si...

Was Isaiah's voice in the wilderness or not?

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DR. RABBI DAVID M. FREIDENREICH: “A Voice Cries Out in the Wilderness”—Isaiah, Translated and Improved (TheTorah.com). Can translators impr...

Damage to Gaza's antiquities sites

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BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: Gaza’s Catastrophic Loss. Scores of sites in ancient coastal city damaged or destroyed (Glenn J. Corbett). Official r...
Thursday, July 23, 2026

What happened to the Ark of the Covenant and the Temple treasures?

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FOR TISHA B'AV: Where are the Ark of the Covenant and the lost Temple treasures? Ancient texts place the Ark beneath the Temple Mount, h...

Two Tisha B'Av essays

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TWO TISHA B'AV ESSAYS have been posted at TheTorah.com: Did They Fast on Tisha B’Av During the Second Temple Period? (Prof. Tova Ganze...