Hershel Shanks served biblical archaeology with joy (Suzanne Singer, Times of Israel Blogs)
Dead Sea Scrolls liberator Hershel Shanks passes away at 90. (Abigail Adler, Jerusalem Post)
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State media reported that his body was thought to be among three discovered in Kahloul, east of Palmyra.I hope that they have found his body, so that his remains can be laid to rest.DNA tests will be carried out to confirm their identities.
Background here and links. Many other past posts on Palmyra, its history, the ancient Aramaic dialect spoken there (Palmyrene), and the city's tragic reversals of fortune, now trending for the better, are here and links (cf. here).
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To recap the story of the Iraqi Jewish Archive(s): a lot of Jewish documents in Hebrew and Arabic were found rotting in the flooded basement of the Iraqi Intelligence headquarters during the Iraq war in 2003. In a few weeks these were frozen to preserve them and they were later shipped to the United States for conservation. Meanwhile, Iraq was asking for them back. They have been conserved for some years and have traveled in an exhibition. There have been negotiations with Iraq about their return. The return deadlines have repeatedly been extended. Some, including some Iraqi Jewish refugees and their descendants, oppose the return to Iraq. There was a rumor of a three-year extension to the most recent return agreement, which would put the current informal return date in September of 2021.
Background here, with links going back to the discovery of the archive in 2003.
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It reads: ‘The fourth consulate of Imperator Vespasianus Augustus.’ ‘Accounts, salary. Gaius Messius, son of Gaius, of the tribe Fabia, from Beirut.’ ‘I received my stipendium of 50 denarii, out of which I have paid barley money 16 denarii. […]rnius: food expenses 20(?) denarii; boots 5 denarii; leather strappings 2 denarii; linen tunic 7 denarii.’ And the total of deductions is 50 denarri – Messius’ entire pay check.Fun extra fact. Gaius Messius was from Beirut. He was a Phoenician in the Roman army. You can read the Latin text of the payslip here.
James Clark wrote an ironically appreciative article on this papyrus in the military magazine Task & Purpose in March of 2019, based on a tweet by Dr. Jo Ball. No one, including me, noticed it at the time. But it was republished yesterday and now the Mail has taken it up.
UPDATE (10 Feb): Richard Bauckham e-mails: "If he belonged to the gens Fabia, surely he must be Roman, not Phoenician."
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Hershel Shanks, who made biblical archaeology widely available, dies. (Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service).
Died: Hershel Shanks, Editor Who Saved Biblical Archaeology from Academics (DANIEL SILLIMAN, Christianity Today)
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February 9 has officially been declared as International Greek Language Day and is a day for Greeks and non-Greeks to celebrate the important role the Greek language has played in world culture.I didn't know that this was a thing. But since it is, let's celebrate.
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John among the ApocalypsesJewish Apocalyptic Tradition and the 'Apocalyptic' Gospel
Benjamin E. Reynolds
Description
- Draws on modern genre theory to compare the Gospel of John and Jewish apocalypses
- Explains the importance of revelation in John and John's portrayal of Jesus as a figure descending from heaven
- Explores reception history, including Byzantine iconography, to consider historical explanations for the apocalyptic shaping of the Gospel
The Gospel of John has long been recognized as being distinct from the Synoptic Gospels. John among the Apocalypses explains John's distinctive narrative of Jesus's life by comparing it to Jewish apocalypses and highlighting the central place of revelation in the Gospel. While some scholars have noted a connection between the Gospel of John and Jewish apocalypses, Reynolds makes the first extensive comparison of the Gospel with the standard definition of the apocalypse genre. Engaging with modern genre theory, this comparison indicates surprising similarities of form, content, and function between John's Gospel and Jewish apocalypses.
Even though the Gospel of John reflects similarities with the genre of apocalypse, John is not an apocalypse, but in genre theory terms, John may be described as a gospel in kind and an apocalypse in mode. John's narrative of Jesus's life has been qualified and shaped by the genre of apocalypse, such that it may be called an 'apocalyptic' gospel. In the final two chapters, Reynolds explores the implications of this conclusion for Johannine Studies and New Testament scholarship more broadly. John among the Apocalypses considers how viewing the Fourth Gospel as apocalyptic Gospel aids in the interpretation of John's appeal to Israel's Scriptures and Mosaic authority, and examines the Gospel's relationship with the book of Revelation and the history of reception concerning their writing. An examination of Byzantine iconographic traditions highlights how reception history may offer a possible explanation for reading John as apocalyptic Gospel.
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Published: 22 October 2020
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The third and last pre-Islamic Iranian empire was ruled by the Sasanian dynasty from the 220s to 651 CE.For more on the Sasanian (Sassanian) Empire and why it is of interest to PaleoJudaica, see the links collected here (cf. here)
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Published in English.
It is often presumed that biblical redaction was invariably done using conventional scribal methods, meaning that when editors sought to modify or compile existing texts, they would do so in the process of rewriting them upon new scrolls. There is, however, substantial evidence pointing to an alternative scenario: Various sections of the Hebrew Bible appear to have been created through a process of material redaction. In some cases, ancient editors simply appended new sheets to existing scrolls. Other times, they literally cut and pasted their sources, carving out patches of text from multiple manuscripts and then gluing them together like a collage. Idan Dershowitz shows how this surprising technique left behind telltale traces in the biblical text – especially when the editors made mistakes – allowing us to reconstruct their modus operandi. Material evidence from the ancient Near East and elsewhere further supports his hypothesis.
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In Memory of Hershel Shanks (Bas Staff).
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Published in English.
This volume contains the proceedings of two international meetings held by the Minerva Center for the Relations between Israel and Aram in Biblical Times (RIAB) in Ramat-Gan/Jerusalem (March 2017) and Leipzig (May 2018). Most of the papers relate to various aspects of the Aramaic epigraphy in different contexts with a second part of the volume dealing with Idumean ostraca. The papers will be of interest to ancient historians, archaeologists of the ancient Near East, scholars of Semitic and Biblical studies and the ancient Near East.
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H-Judaic: Passing of Hershel Shanks.
H-Judaic is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Hershel Shanks (1930-2021), founder and longtime editor of Biblical Archeology Review and once described in The New York TImes as "probably the world's most influential amateur Biblical archaeologist." ...Bible History Daily: In Memory of Hershel Shanks. Honoring the Founder, Longtime Editor, and Editor Emeritus of Biblical Archaeology Review.
Some PaleoJudaica posts on Hershel and his work are here, here, here, here, and here. You can find links to many of his essays in the archives. And the latest, from last week, on developments regarding the BAR editorship is here and here
May his memory be for a blessing.
UPDATE: Bad link now fixed.
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Anat Israeli presents the first feminist commentary in the series on a chapter from the »Order of Women.« She discusses the last chapter of Tractate Qiddushin, devoted to »betrothals.« Chapter 4 deals in general with two major topics: the first is Jewish genealogies (what parts the mother and father play in deciding who is a Jew and who can marry whom). The second topic is about forbidden seclusions between members of the opposite sex (since they can bring about promiscuity, adultery and other unwanted sexual contacts). In this study, Anat Israeli and her collaborators first analyze the Mishnah and show what its authors had considered important about these two topics, and then they show how the emphases had shifted on the way between the land of the Mishnah (Israel) and the land of the Talmud (Babylonia).
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Masculinities in the Court Tales of Daniel
Advancing Gender Studies in the Hebrew BibleBy Brian Charles DiPalma
Copyright Year 2018Paperback
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In this volume, Brian Charles DiPalma examines masculinities in the court tales of Daniel as a test case for issues facing the burgeoning area of gender studies in the Hebrew Bible. In doing so, it both analyses how the court tales of Daniel portray the characters in terms of configurations of masculinity in their socio-historical context, and also seeks to advance gender studies in the Hebrew Bible on theoretical, methodological, and political grounds.Masculinities in the Court Tales of Daniel is therefore of interest not only to scholars working on Daniel, but also biblical scholars studying gender in the Hebrew Bible more broadly, including those engaged in feminist criticism, queer criticism, and studies of masculinity, as well as anyone studying gender within an ancient Near Eastern context.
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Learning the Language of ScripturePaleoJudaica posts on Origen's recently rediscovered Homilies on the Psalms are here and links and here. Posts on Origen's Hexapla are here and links, here, here, here, and here. Some other posts on Origen, his work and his theology, are here, here, here, and here.Origen, Wisdom, and the Logic of Interpretation
Series: Studies in Systematic Theology, Volume: 24
Author: Mark Randall James
In Learning the Language of Scripture, Mark Randall James offers a new account of theological interpretation as a sapiential practice of learning the language of Scripture, drawing on recently discovered Homilies on the Psalms by the influential early theologian Origen of Alexandria (2nd-3rd c. C.E). Widely regarded as one of the most arbitrary interpreters, James shows that Origen’s appearance of arbitrariness is a result of the modern tendency to neglect the role of wisdom in scriptural interpretation. James demonstrates that Origen offers a compelling model of a Christian pragmatism in which learning and correcting linguistic practice is a site of the transformative pedagogy of the divine Logos.
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Archival Historiography in Jewish AntiquityLaura Carlson Hasler
Description
- Argues that the books of Ezra and Nehemiah help reveal how the Bible received its unusual form
- Suggests that the concept of archival historiography makes sense of Ezra and Nehemiah's unusual format and place in the Bible
- Integrates archaeology, postcolonial theory, and archive studies into the reading of the text
The question of how the Bible received its unusual form has been a question addressed by scholars since critical study of the text began. Early attention focused on the Pentateuch and the Primary History. Archival Historiography in Jewish Antiquity argues that Ezra and Nehemiah, late texts sometimes overlooked in such discussions, reveal another piece of this longstanding puzzle. Laura Carlson Hasler suggests that the concept of archival historiography makes sense of Ezra and Nehemiah's unusual format and place in the Bible. Adapting the symbolic quality of ancient Near Eastern archives to their own purposes, the writers of these books found archiving an expression of religious and social power in a colonized context. Using the book of Esther as a comparative example, Carlson Hasler addresses literary disruption, a form unpalatable to modern readers, as an expected element of archival historiography. This book argues that archiving within the experience of trauma is more than sophisticated history writing, and in fact served to facilitate Judean recovery after the losses of exile.
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The answer, or lack thereof, teaches us something important about the meaning and limits of divine revelation.
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Jane Grogan, Beyond Greece and Rome: reading the ancient Near East in Early Modern Europe. Classical presences. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xiii, 341. ISBN 9780198767114 $105.00.The book deals with the early modern reception of the Persia, Assyria, and Babylon of the Classical Greek writers, holy land pilgrimage, Alexander the Great, Zenobia of Palmyra, etc.Review by
Raphael Magarik, University of Illinois Chicago. magarik@uic.edu
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In Rome lies the Santi Apostoli church, cared for by Franciscan brothers for more than 500 years. For more than 1500 years, this site has held the believed remains of two of the earliest Christians and Jesu apostles: St. Philip and St. James the Younger - relics of the Holy Catholic Church.[...]
The researchers considered the remains of St. Philip too difficult to de-contaminate and radiocarbon date, and their age thus remains unknown so far. But the femur, believed to belong to St. James, underwent several analyses. Most importantly, it was radiocarbon dated to AD 214-340.
Thus, the preserved relic, the femur, is not that of St. James. It originates from an individual some 160-240 years younger than St. James, explains Professor Kaare Lund Rasmussen, University of Southern Denmark, adding:
- Though the relic is not that of St James, it casts a rare flicker of light on a very early and largely unaccounted for time in the history of early Christianity.
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Again, Judith is a story. To follow up my earlier comment, do people who root for Indiana Jones when they watch the films take him as a moral example?
Earlier posts in Phil's Judith series are here and here.
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Discovering BabylonThe book includes a chapter on Babylon in the Bible and a chapter on what I like to call Greek Fantasy Babylon.By Rannfrid Thelle
Copyright Year 2019
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£33.29ISBN 9780367496753
Published February 25, 2020 by Routledge
206 PagesBook Description
This volume presents Babylon as it has been passed down through Western culture: through the Bible, classical texts, in Medieval travel accounts, and through depictions of the Tower motif in art. It then details the discovery of the material culture remains of Babylon from the middle of the 19th century and through the great excavation of 1899-1917, and focuses on the encounter between the Babylon of tradition and the Babylon unearthed by the archaeologists. This book is unique in its multi-disciplinary approach, combining expertise in biblical studies and Assyriology with perspectives on history, art history, intellectual history, reception studies and contemporary issues.
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Were there multiple gold-tongued mummies or just one? This article preserves the ambiguity.
Archaeologists working at a temple on the outskirts of the Egyptian city of Alexandria have found 16 human burial chambers there, the government’s ministry of tourism and antiquities announced on Friday."At least one." It seems the writer doesn't know either. This shouldn't be hard. Would someone associated with the excavation please tell us how many mummies excavated at the site had a gold tongue? I would be happy to post the clarification here.At least one contained a human skull with a golden tongue nestled in its jawbone.
The article does confirm that the excavators came to Taposiris Magna looking for Cleopatra's tomb, but so far they have not found it.
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Cross-file under Palmyra Watch. For many PaleoJudaica posts on Palmyra, its history, the ancient Aramaic dialect spoken there (Palmyrene), and the city's tragic reversals of fortune, which more recently seem to have been trending for the better, start here (cf. here) and follow the links.
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One of the ideas I am exploring in connection with my research on the historical John the Baptist, and which I already make some reference to in my book What Jesus Learned from Women, is the persistence of Israelite traditions of a variety of sorts in a range of places including Galilee as well as Egypt and Mesopotamia.I think this idea has some mileage to it. I have commented further here.[...]
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Archaeologists have found a 2,000-year-old mummy with a gold tongue at an ancient Egyptian site called Taposiris Magna.Most of the articles on this story, like this one, refer to a single gold-tongued mummy. But a couple published in the last day (by the BBC and the Telegraph) mention multiple mummies. Perhaps they have more recent information. I don't know.Embalmers perhaps placed the golden tongue on the mummy to ensure that the deceased would be able to speak in the afterlife, the Egyptian antiquities ministry said in a statement released Jan 29.
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The site of Taposiris Magna was in the news last summer, with reports that it was being excavated as the possible site of Cleopatra's tomb. The current articles mention a hoard of Cleopatra coins found at the site, but nothing about looking for her there. Perhaps the excavators have decided she wasn't buried there after all. Again, I don't know.
Cleopatra VII, the famous Cleopatra, has been in the news lately. She has been of interest to PaleoJudaica for a long time. For posts on her, start here and follow the links.
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For PaleoJudaica posts involving the Samaritan Temple on Mount Gerizim, see here and links.
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- Michael Avioz and Meir Ben Shahar, Editors’ Preface
- Kenneth Atkinson, Josephus's Use of Scripture to Describe Hasmonean Territorial Expansion
- Meir Ben Shahar, Dating the Destruction of the First Temple: Tradition and Interpretation in Josephus
- Silvia Castelli, Between Tradition and Innovation: Josephus's Description of the Tabernacle (Ant. 3.108-150) as an Improved Alternative to the Greek Bible
- Jonathan Klawans, Heresy, Forgery, Novelty: Condemning and Denying Innovation in Josephus
- Étienne Nodet, Josephus, 1 Maccabees, and Hanukkah
- Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Between Ethnos and Nomos: Josephus and the Goyim
- Daniel R. Schwartz, Hellenism, Judaism, and Apologetic: Josephus's Antiquities According to an Unpublished Commentary by Abraham Schalit
- Jan Willem Van Henten, Herod's Law Against Theft in its Literary, Legal, and Historical Contexts
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The Antichrist
A New BiographyAUTHOR: Philip C. Almond, University of Queensland
DATE PUBLISHED: September 2020
AVAILABILITY: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
FORMAT: Adobe eBook Reader
ISBN: 9781108847643Description
The malign figure of the Antichrist endures in modern culture, whether religious or secular; and the spectral shadow he has cast over the ages continues to exert a strong and powerful fascination. Philip C. Almond tells the story of the son of Satan from his early beginnings to the present day, and explores this false Messiah in theology, literature and the history of ideas. Discussing the origins of the malevolent being who at different times was cursed as Belial, Nero or Damien, the author reveals how Christianity in both East and West has imagined this incarnation of absolute evil destined to appear at the end of time. For the better part of the last two thousand years, Almond suggests, the human battle between right and wrong has been envisaged as a mighty cosmic duel between good and its opposite, culminating in an epic final showdown between Christ and his deadly arch-nemesis.
- The first full treatment for 25 years of a subject that continues to generate enormous interest
- Offers new interpretations of the continuing significance of the Antichrist in popular culture
- The author's earlier book on the Devil (IB Tauris) was a widely reviewed academic bestseller
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For many PaleoJudaica posts on the archaeological discoveries at Huqoq, including the synagogue and the mosaics, see here and links (cf. here).
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Jonathan R. Trotter. The Jerusalem Temple in Diaspora: Jewish Practice and Thought during the Second Temple Period. Brill, 2019.Excerpt:
Trotter has tackled the difficult topic of ancient Jewish identity using two sets of evidence that reflect parallel, but distinct discourses of identity: one centered in lived practices (pilgrimage and donation) and one constructed by a group of texts from the late Second Temple Period. In other words, The Jerusalem Temple analyzes both what people did to connect to the temple and what they said about it.I noted the publication of the book here.
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Coulter George, How dead languages work. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. viii, 224. ISBN 9780198852827 $25.00.Review by
Audrey Mathys, Chargée de recherches F.R.S.-FNRS, Université Libre de Bruxelles. audreymathys@gmail.comThe book under review is an introduction to seven Ancient and Medieval languages which are culturally relevant for English native speakers. Six of them are Indo-European—Ancient Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, Old English, Old Irish and (Middle) Welsh—and the last one, Hebrew, belongs to the Semitic language family. As hinted by the title, the author aims at providing information on how these languages “work”, that is to say, how each of them is phonologically, morphologically and syntactically structured, and how this contrasts with Modern English.
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Jesus Christ as the Son of David in the Gospel of MarkPart of Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series
AUTHOR: Max Botner, Grand Rapids Theological Seminary, Michigan
DATE PUBLISHED: October 2020
AVAILABILITY: Available
FORMAT: Paperback
ISBN: 9781108702140Description
This study contributes to the debate over the function of Davidic sonship in the Gospel of Mark. In contrast to William Wrede's paradigm, Max Botner argues that Mark's position on Jesus's ancestry cannot be assessed properly though isolated study of the name David (or the patronym son of David). Rather, the totality of Markan messiah language is relevant to the question at hand. Justification for this paradigm shift is rooted in observations about the ways in which ancient authors spoke of their messiahs. Botner shows that Mark was participant to a linguistic community whose members shared multiple conventions for stylizing their messiahs, Davidic or otherwise. He then traces how the evangelist narratively constructed his portrait of Christ via creative use of the Jewish scriptures. When the Davidssohnfrage is approached from within this sociolinguistic framework, it becomes clear that Mark's Christ is indeed David's son.
- Scrutinizes the plight of Davidic messianism in Markan studies
- Adopts a sociolinguistic approach to ancient messianism to provide a new paradigm for assessing how ancient authors deployed traditions about David and his descendants
- Will appeal to those who are interested in intertextuality in early Jewish literature in general and in the New Testament Gospels in particular
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Jonathan Z. Smith on ReligionFor more on Jonathan Z. Smith and his work, see here and here.
By Christopher I. Lehrich
Copyright Year 2021Paperback
£34.99Hardback
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£31.49ISBN 9780367030834
Published December 31, 2020 by Routledge
184 PagesBook Description
Jonathan Z. Smith (1938–2017) was unquestionably one of the most important and influential voices of critical reflection within the academic study of religion in the last century. His work explored the nature and history of religious phenomena across cultures—from ancient Jewish practices to Maori cults, from early Christianity to mass suicide in the twentieth century—while critiquing the assumptions underlying the very category of "religion."
This important volume offers the first full critical assessment of the influence of Jonathan Z. Smith’s thought on the subject of religion. Christopher I. Lehrich systematically examines and develops a critical overview that will assist others in engaging more fully with Smith’s scholarship.
This book is an essential reading for students and scholars interested in the work of Jonathan Z. Smith as well as the history of religion more broadly.
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The Critical Dictionary of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements (CDAMM) is an online encyclopedia covering secular and religious expressions of apocalyptic and millenarian thinking throughout history and across cultures.Newly launched this month.
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End of History and the Last King Achaemenid Ideology and Community Identity in Ezra-NehemiahBy: David Janzen
Published: 02-11-2021 Format: Hardback Edition: 1st Extent: 288 ISBN: 9780567698018 Imprint: T&T Clark Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies Volume: 713 Dimensions: 6 1/8" x 9 1/4" List price:
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This book examines community identity in the post-exilic temple community in Ezra-Nehemiah, and explores the possible influences that the Achaemenids, the ruling Persian dynasty, might have had on its construction. In the book, David Janzen reads Ezra-Nehemiah in dialogue with the Achaemenids' Old Persian inscriptions, as well as with other media the dynasty used, such as reliefs, seals, coins, architecture, and imperial parks. In addition, he discusses the cultural and religious background of Achaemenid thought, especially its intersections with Zoroastrian beliefs.
Ezra-Nehemiah, Janzen argues, accepts Achaemenid claims for the necessity and beneficence of their hegemony. The result is that Ezra-Nehemiah, like the imperial ideology it mimics, claims that divine and royal wills are entirely aligned. Ezra-Nehemiah reflects the Achaemenid assertion that the peoples they have colonized are incapable of living in peace and happiness without the Persian rule that God established to benefit humanity, and that the dynasty rewards the peoples who do what they desire, since that reflects divine desire.
The final chapter of the book argues that Ezra-Nehemiah was produced by an elite group within the Persian-period temple assembly, and shows that Ezra-Nehemiah's pro-Achaemenid worldview was not widely accepted within that community.
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If you like technical things, the underlying article at Plos One is: Early evidence of royal purple dyed textile from Timna Valley (Israel).
Naama Sukenik , David Iluz, Zohar Amar, Alexander Varvak, Orit Shamir, Erez Ben-Yosef
Published: January 28, 2021https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0245897
PaleoJudaica posts involving Tyrian purple dye are here, here, here, and here. And for the Israelite telekhet dye, also made from the murex snail, see here and links.
The Plos One article suggests that the fragments may have come from posh clothing. A couple of posts on clothing in ancient Israel are here and here. (Timna was Edomite, but the sartorial conventions would have been similar, at least to us.)
This discovery is further proof that delicate organic artifacts from as far back as the tenth century BCE can survive to the present in the right climate. The Timna Valley has the right climate. So does Megiddo.
Parchment and papyrus scrolls are delicate organic artifacts. If these cloth fragments can survive with their dye intact, I see no reasons why still-readable scroll fragments could not survive in the same environment. We would have to be lucky for them to survive and for us to find them. But the right conditions exist.
I have further thoughts on this point here and links and here (on the Timna Valley excavation) and here and here (on Megiddo).
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The scholar named in the article as "Charles de Ferriol" should be "Charles Virolleaud."
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The collection includes manuscripts and papyrus fragments with texts written in Coptic, hieratic and demotic scripts, and Greek. Some of the papyri feature Christian prayers written in Arabic and Coptic or Arabic only.It sounds as though this is part of the planned repatriation of artifacts of unverified provenance which Steve Green announed last spring. See here and here. I commend Mr. Green and the MOTB for working to get their act together. But I hope there are no more problems like this.Other items in the collection include cartonnage funerary masks, parts of coffins, heads from stone statues, and portraits of the deceased, according to Egyptian officials. The objects will be handed to the Coptic Museum in Cairo, which is the largest museum of its kind in the world.
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It's a good story though, so let's not over-think it. Imagine scholars two thousand years from now pondering what people in the twentieth century could have made of the historical inaccuracies in the Indiana Jones movies.
Background here.
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The best known inscriptions are rock inscriptions on mountains, Dr. Sulaiman Al-Thiaeb, professor of ancient Arabic writings and cultural consultant at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies said.There is an impressive variety of inscriptions. Many are in various dialects of Old Arabian, many are in Aramaic or Nabatean (Nabataean), and there are some in Palmyrene Aramaic, Hebrew, Latin, Greek, Egyptian (Coptic?), and Babylonian cuneiform. If you would like to look at some of them, see the link here. And just keep following the links there for more on Arabian, Aramaic, Natabean, etc. inscriptions in Saudia Arabia and ancient Arabia more generally
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This two-week summer workshop for up to 30 students combines lectures and workshops to advance the work of these developing scholars. Beginning in 2021, the workshop will rotate on alternating years between Oxford and Washington, DC.Assuming things are being done on-site again, this year's workshop will be in Washington D.C. Apparently the enrolment deadline is soon, but I can't find the date anywhere.
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Kim Ryholt, Gojko Barjamovic, Libraries before Alexandria: ancient Near Eastern traditions. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xvii, 491. ISBN 9780199655359 $130.00."Before," means before the Hellenistic period, so the Qumran Library, the Library at Herculaneum, etc. are not included. But there is wide coverage of ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian libraries of the second and first millennium BCE.Review by
Bernhard Schneider. mcb170@gmail.com
I have collected some PaleoJudaica posts on the Library of Alexandria here. For more on the volume on the St Andrews conference mentioned in the review, see here. That post has additional links on ancient libraries. And for a book on ancient Roman libraries, see here.
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The post flags articles on royal Achemenid, Seleucid, Arcasid, and Sassanian women (all periods of interest for PaleoJudaica). But the book also has articles on royal women of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece and Macedonia, and Rome. There is an article by Lucinda Dirven on Zenobia of Palmyra and an article by Julia Wilker on Hasmonean women.
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Last year's Tu B'Shevat post is here, with links to earlier posts.
For biblical background, see here. The name "New Year for Trees" comes from Mishnah Rosh HaShanah 1.1. That passage gives two alternative dates for the celebration, one from Shammai and one from Hillel. Hillel's date (15 Shevat) is the one celebrated at present.
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For PaleoJudaica posts on Sabar's recent book, Veritas, and the whole Gospel of Jesus' Wife saga, start here and follow the many links.
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PaleoJudaica posts on the many artistic representations of Judith are collected here. And for more on the historical background of the book, see here.
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Chaos from the Ancient World to Early ModernityFormations of the Formless
Edited by: Andreas Höfele, Christoph Levin, Reinhard Müller, and Björn Quiring
De Gruyter | 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110655001OVERVIEW
Chaos is a perennial source of fear and fascination. The original "formless void" (tohu-wa-bohu) mentioned in the book of Genesis, chaos precedes the created world: a state of anarchy before the establishment of cosmic order. But chaos has frequently also been conceived of as a force that persists in the cosmos and in society and threatens to undo them both.
From the cultures of the ancient Near East and the Old Testament to early modernity, notions of the divine have included the power to check and contain as well as to unleash chaos as a sanction for the violation of social and ethical norms. Yet chaos has also been construed as a necessary supplement to order, a region of pure potentiality at the base of reality that provides the raw material of creation or even constitutes a kind of alternative order itself. As such, it generates its own peculiar 'formations of the formless'.
Focusing on the connection between the cosmic and the political, this volume traces the continuities and re-conceptualizations of chaos from the ancient Near East to early modern Europe across a variety of cultures, discourses and texts. One of the questions it poses is how these pre-modern 'chaos theories' have survived into and reverberate in our own time.
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Among the collection of Hebrew-language books at the Bodleian Library at Oxford University include a catalog from 1605, in addition to a collection of early Hebrew and Yiddish printed books, a fragment of Maimonides' autograph draft of the Mishneh Torah from the Cairo Genizah and manuscripts of the Torah. Prized works held by the library also include the 15th century Kennicott Bible, still with its original goatskin box-binding and an illuminated 14th century Tripartite Maḥzor from the Michael collection.Dr César Merchán-Hamann is the new Curator of the collection. Congratulations to him and to the Bodleian Library!
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It has been hidden from view for thousands of years, and its whereabouts never proved. But if the Ark of the Covenant indeed rests in a chapel in northern Ethiopia, this extraordinary religious treasure could be at grave risk from fighting in the area.For PaleoJudaica posts on the supposed Ark of the Covenant in this Ethiopian chapel see here and follow the links here. I am saddened to hear that the region is at war.
For many more posts on the Ark of the Covenant, start here and keep following those links.
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From Qom to BarcelonaAramaic, South Arabian, Coptic, Arabic and Judeo-Arabic Documents
Series: Islamic History and Civilization, Volume: 178
Volume Editors: Andreas Kaplony and Daniel Potthast
The renaissance of Arabic Papyrology has become obvious by the founding of the International Society for Arabic Papyrology (ISAP) at the Cairo conference (2002), and by its subsequent conferences in Granada (2004), Alexandria (2006), Vienna (2009), Tunis/Carthage (2012), Munich (2014), and Berlin (2018). This volume collects papers given at the Munich conference, including editions of previously unpublished Coptic, Arabic and Judeo-Arabic documents, as well as historical studies based on documentary evidence from Achaemenid Bactria, Ancient South-Arabia, and Early Islamic, Fāṭimid and Mamlūk Egypt.
Contributors: Anne Boud'hors; Ursula Bsees; Peter T. Daniels; Maher A. Eissa; Andreas Kaplony; W. Matt Malczycki; Craig Perry; Daniel Potthast; Peter Stein; Naïm Vanthieghem; Oded Zinger
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The Earliest Commentary on the Prophecy of HabakkukTimothy H. Lim
Oxford Commentary on the Dead Sea Scrolls
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- The first major commentary on Pesher Habakkuk for forty years
- A detailed and perspicuous discussion of the scroll, from the minutiae to broad historical and theological themes
- Provides scholarship of the highest level based on the best digitized images and readings
This is the first major commentary in English on Pesher Habakkuk for forty years. It elucidates the nature of 1QpHab as the earliest commentary on the prophecy of Habakkuk by a detailed study of the biblical quotation and sectarian interpretation. This commentary provides a new edition of the scroll, including new readings, and detailed palaeographical, philological, exegetical and historical notes and discussion. It shows that the pesherist imitates the allusive style of the oracles of Habakkuk and also draws on lexemes, phrases, and themes from other biblical texts and Jewish sources. It shows that the pesherist identified the Kittim with the Romans who conquered Judaea in 63 BCE, and suggests that the scroll refers to several righteous and wicked figures, including the last Hasmonean high priests.
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Village dogs, guard dogs, scavenger dogs, and dog burials—what archaeology and the Bible can tell us about dogs in ancient Egypt and the Levant, and the significance of their silence during the plague of the firstborn.
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For more on children in the biblical world, see here, here, here, here and links.
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Eschatology and the Saviour
The 'Gospel of Mary' among Early Christian Dialogue GospelsPart of Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series
AUTHOR: Sarah Parkhouse, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne
DATE PUBLISHED: October 2020
AVAILABILITY: Available
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ISBN: 9781108712866
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This book focuses on the 'Gospel of Mary' in the context of a broader analysis of early Christian dialogue gospels - a popular literary genre used to present Jesus as conversing with select disciples and answering a series of questions on life, death and the cosmos at the conclusion of his earthly career. Jesus' teachings in these texts can vary greatly, from affirming the resurrection of the flesh to denying it completely. This book highlights the diversity of perspective within this genre, bringing together New Testament, 'gnostic' and (proto-)orthodox texts. Yet each text is based on the premise that it contains new or clarified teaching from the risen or glorified Lord, often in the form of a final revelation concerned with the disciples' eschatological salvation. This book offers a fresh and in-depth analysis of the 'Gospel of Mary' in the context of the dialogue gospel genre, concentrating on the narrative frame, the eschatological teachings, and the relationship between the two.
- Offers new insights into both New Testament texts and dialogue gospels, highlighting the complexity and diversity of early Christian gospel literature
- Includes Greek and Coptic text as well as translations, including appendices of translations and comparisons of the manuscripts of the 'Gospel of Mary'
- Presents in-depth analysis of narrative frame and eschatology of the 'Gospel of Mary'
Cross-file under New Testament Apocrypha Watch.
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For more on the Chester Beatty Library and its papyri etc. see here (cf. here) and links.
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Looks like this is the fruit of the Arshama Project. Cross file unde Aramaic Watch. There are many PaleoJudaica posts on Elephantine Island in Egypt and on the Elephantine Aramaic papyri. Start here and follow the links.
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I linked to an earlier version of Phil's essay here. A couple of other PaleoJudaica posts on Ahiqar are here and here.
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According to ancient Egyptian belief, a person’s heart was weighed after death to determine whether they are righteous or wicked. By referring to Pharaoh’s heart as heavy, the exodus story originally expressed the extent of his guilt.While we're on the topic of the Book of the Dead, a new manuscript of one of its chapters has recently been recovered at Saqqara.
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A Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian TransmissionThere is also an e-book version, if you can track it down.Editor-in-chief Alexander Kulik, Edited by Gabriele Boccaccini, Lorenzo DiTommaso, David Hamidovic, and Michael E. Stone
Description
- Offers a systematic exploration of Jewish literature of the Hellenistic and Roman periods
- Essays provide overviews, historical locations, methodological issues, and innovations in the study of the texts
- A thorough survey of a wildly diverse set of Jewish documents that are rarely treated together
The Jewish culture of the Hellenistic and early Roman periods established a basis for all monotheistic religions, but its main sources have been preserved to a great degree through Christian transmission. This Guide is devoted to problems of preservation, reception, and transformation of Jewish texts and traditions of the Second Temple period in the many Christian milieus from the ancient world to the late medieval era. It approaches this corpus not as an artificial collection of reconstructed texts—a body of hypothetical originals—but rather from the perspective of the preserved materials, examined in their religious, social, and political contexts. It also considers the other, non-Christian, channels of the survival of early Jewish materials, including Rabbinic, Gnostic, Manichaean, and Islamic. This unique project brings together scholars from many different fields in order to map the trajectories of early Jewish texts and traditions among diverse later cultures. It also provides a comprehensive and comparative introduction to this new field of study while bridging the gap between scholars of early Judaism and of medieval Christianity.
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Divine Aggression in Psalms and Inscriptions
Vengeful Gods and Loyal KingsPart of Society for Old Testament Study Monographs
AUTHOR: Collin Cornell, University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee
DATE PUBLISHED: October 2020
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ISBN: 9781108842679Description
The aggression of the biblical God named Yhwh is notorious. Students of theology, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East know that the Hebrew Bible describes Yhwh acting destructively against his client country, Israel, and against its kings. But is Yhwh uniquely vengeful, or was he just one among other, similarly ferocious patron gods? To answer this question, Collin Cornell compares royal biblical psalms with memorial inscriptions. He finds that the Bible shares deep theological and literary commonalities with comparable texts from Israel's ancient neighbours. The centrepiece of both traditions is the intense mutual loyalty of gods and kings. In the event that the king's monument and legacy comes to harm, gods avenge their individual royal protégé. In the face of political inexpedience, kings honour their individual divine benefactor.
- Provides a sustained comparison between royal biblical psalms and ancient inscriptions
- Demonstrates the distinctive features of the biblical god, especially in terms of his aggression against his own client king and country
- Argues for the loyalty of kings to their specific patron god
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Some PaleoJudiaca post on the Letter of Aristeas are here and links. There is more on Ptolemy II Philadelphus: here and here. Cross-file under Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Watch.
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The Cambridge Companion to Jewish TheologyPart of Cambridge Companions to Religion
EDITOR: Steven Kepnes, Colgate University, New York
DATE PUBLISHED: December 2020
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ISBN: 9781108401432Description
The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Theology offers an overview of Jewish theology, an aspect of Judaism that is equal in importance to law and ethics. Covering the period from antiquity to the present, the volume focuses on what Jews believe about God and also about the relation of God to humans and the world. Parts I and II cover exciting new research in Jewish biblical and rabbinic theology, medieval philosophy, Kabbalah (mysticism), and liturgy. Parts III and IV turn to modern theology with an exploration of works by leading figures, such as Rabbi Abraham I. Kook, Franz Rosenzweig, and Emmanuel Levinas, as well as the relation of theology to issues such as feminism and the Holocaust, and the relation of Judaism to other world religions. In Part V, the book explores how the insights of analytic philosophy have been integrated with Jewish theology.
- Provides an accessible overview of the history of Jewish Theology, from antiquity to the present
- Uncovers exciting new research in Jewish biblical and rabbinic theology, medieval philosophy, Kabbalah (Mysticism), and Liturgy
- Explores modern Jewish theology and contemporary issues including the Holocaust, Feminism and the relation of Judaism to other world religions
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Manuel Sanz Morales, Chariton of Aphrodisias' 'Callirhoe': a critical edition. Antike Texte, Band 2. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2020. Pp. xxx, 185. ISBN 9783825366155 €32,00.For more on ancient Greek novels and their possible interest for the study of ancient Judaism, see here, here and here.Review by William M. Owens, Ohio University. owensb@ohio.edu
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The Golden Calf between Bible and Qur'anScripture, Polemic, and Exegesis from Late Antiquity to Islam
Michael Pregill
Oxford Studies in the Abrahamic Religions
Description
- A compelling exploration of the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic understandings of the account of the Golden Calf
- Contributes to the ongoing reevaluation of the relationship between Bible and Qur'an
- The first major monograph on the story of the Golden Calf
- The book also addresses the issue of Western approaches to the Qur'an, arguing that the historical reliance of scholars and translators on classical Muslim exegesis of scripture has led to misleading conclusions
This book explores the story of the Israelites' worship of the Golden Calf in its Jewish, Christian, and Muslim contexts, from ancient Israel to the emergence of Islam. It focuses in particular on the Qur'an's presentation of the narrative and its background in Jewish and Christian retellings of the episode from Late Antiquity. Across the centuries, the interpretation of the Calf episode underwent major changes reflecting the varying cultural, religious, and ideological contexts in which various communities used the story to legitimate their own tradition, challenge the claims of others, and delineate the boundaries between self and other. The book contributes to the ongoing reevaluation of the relationship between Bible and Qur'an, arguing for the necessity of understanding the Qur'an and Islamic interpretations of the history and narratives of ancient Israel as part of the broader biblical tradition. The Calf narrative in the Qur'an, central to the qur'anic conception of the legacy of Israel and the status of the Jews of its own time, reflects a profound engagement with the biblical account in Exodus, as well as being informed by exegetical and parascriptural traditions in circulation in the Qur'an's milieu in Late Antiquity. The book also addresses the issue of Western approaches to the Qur'an, arguing that the historical reliance of scholars and translators on classical Muslim exegesis of scripture has led to misleading conclusions about the meaning of qur'anic episodes.
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Three curious details in the plagues of blood and frogs show the hand of a post-priestly editor and his concern about purity laws.
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For more on the decision to redefine the "widow's mite," see here. For yet more on the "widow's mite" (lepton, half-prutah), see here and here.
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The Theology of the Books of Haggai and ZechariahPart of Old Testament Theology
AUTHOR: Robert Foster, University of Georgia
DATE PUBLISHED: October 2020
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Tucked away at the end of the Minor Prophets, the Books of Haggai and Zechariah offer messages of challenge and hope to residents of the small district of Yehud in the Persian Empire in the generations after the return from Babylonian exile. In this volume, Robert Foster focuses on the distinct theological message of each book. The Book of Haggai uses Israel's foundational event - God's salvation of Israel from Egypt - to exhort the people to finish building the Second Temple. The Book of Zechariah argues that the hopes the people had in the prophet Zechariah's days did not come true because the people failed to keep God's long-standing demand for justice, though hope still lies in the future because of God's character. Each chapter in this book closes with a substantive reflection of the ethics of the major sections of the Books of Haggai and Zechariah and their implications for contemporary readers.
Provides a focused and thorough discussion of the key theological teachings of the books of Haggai and Zechariah Offers a summary of theological ethics of each major section of the books of Haggai and Zechariah, as well as how these interact with the theological ethics of the books of the Old Testament Discusses the theology of the Book of Zechariah in terms of its final form, to help the reader see its unified message while acknowledging its development across time
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#JohnTheBaptist Enoch Seminar Nangeroni Meeting Day 3
#JohnTheBaptist Enoch Seminar Nangeroni Meeting Day 4
I noted his post on day 1 here and on day 2 here.
By the way, please excuse my unusual silence in the last couple of days. I'm fine, but extremely busy.
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Tyler Smith, The fourth Gospel and the manufacture of minds in ancient historiography, biography, romance, and drama. Biblical interpretation series. volume 173. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2019. Pp. xiv, 303. ISBN 9789004396036 €116,00.Review by Douglas Estes, South University. douglasestes@gmail.com
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