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Saturday, August 08, 2026

Scarlata, Wine, Soil, and Salvation in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament (CUP)

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NEW BOOK FROM CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS: Wine, Soil, and Salvation in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament Author: Mark Scarlata, St Mell...
Friday, August 07, 2026

On John Dee's Enochian writings

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THE ANXIOUS BENCH: The Wizard, The Thief, Their Angels, And The Lost Language (Philip Jenkins). Which takes us back to the question of forg...

Video reconstructions of Herod's Temple courts

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THE TEMPLE MOUNT SIFTING PROJECT: VISUALIZING THE SPLENDOR: NEW 3D RECONSTRUCTIONS OF THE TEMPLE MOUNT COURTS . Frankie [Snyder] conducted t...

When did Nash buy the papyrus?

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VARIANT READINGS: The Purchase of the Nash Papyrus, Again (Brent Nongbri). I continue to be puzzled by the problem of the purchase of the N...
Thursday, August 06, 2026

The mis-mapping of Solomon's Pools?

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POLITICS AND ARCHAEOLOGY: Holy Land battle: Solomon's Pools become flashpoint in fight over Israel's biblical heritage. The ancient...

Orlov, Broken Vessels (SUNY)

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NEW BOOK FROM SUNY PRESS: Broken Vessels Theogonies of the Divine Light in Judaism and Christianity By Andrei A. Orlov Subjects: Kabba...

Variants from the MT in the Great Isaiah Scroll?

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THE OTTC BLOG: How Close is the Great Isaiah Scroll to the Medieval Masoretic Manuscripts? (Drew Longacre). I have addressed this questi...
Wednesday, August 05, 2026

A Mithraeum in Spain was really a Roman library?

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BILBIOTHECAL ARCHAEOLOGY: Oldest Known Roman Library in Spain Identified at Ancient Villa (Nisha Zahid, Greek Reporter). Archaeologists hav...

NEH awards to Princeton profs on the Cairo Geniza

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CAIRO GENIZA WATCH: Eve Krakowski and Marina Rustow awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (Rebekah Schroeder, Princ...
Tuesday, August 04, 2026

Update on Avdat's vintage resurrection

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ARCHAEOBOTANY: Long-lost Byzantine-era vines are again cultivated on ancient Negev terraces. Discovery of 7th-century grape seeds at Avdat ...

The Nash Papyrus and the Odyssey

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VARIANT READINGS: A Cambridge Papyrus of the Odyssey and the Nash Papyrus (Brent Nongbri). This is Cambridge University Library Add MS 4074...

The Gospel of Barnabas, the Nicodemites, and Don Quixote?

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THE ANXIOUS BENCH: The Gospel That Broke The Fourth Wall (Philip Jenkins). Briefly, Barnabas presents itself as the one authentic gospel, ...
Monday, August 03, 2026

Time Sensitive: Magic in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible

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CAMBRIDGE CORE ELEMENT: Magic in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible (Ilan Peled). Summary This Element introduces the reader to t...

Barcelona's ancient synagogue

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HISTORY (AND TOURISM): The Ancient Synagogue of Barcelona: 2,000 Years of History in One Place (Jay Abramson, Times of Israel Blogs). The A...

A call to move the Trumpeting Stone from the Israel Museum

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POLITICS AND ARCHAEOLOGY: Kotel Rabbi Demands Return Of Second Beis Hamikdash Trumpeting Stone (Chaim Racer, Belaaz.com). Kotel Rabbi Shmue...

Can AI identify when Josephus was using a source?

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ALGORITHM WATCH: Was Josephus a reliable historian? AI offers a surprising answer. Israeli researchers used computational analysis of ancie...
Sunday, August 02, 2026

Hayes, St. Ephrem the Syrian on Beatitude and the Afterlife (CUP)

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NEW BOOK FROM CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS: St. Ephrem the Syrian on Beatitude and the Afterlife Series: Elements in Early Christian Liter...
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...