http://www.jewpi.com Jewish Press International Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:32:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.jewpi.com/sbl-call-for-papers-1328787250/ http://www.jewpi.com/sbl-call-for-papers-1328787250/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:34:10 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/sbl-call-for-papers-1328787250/ APPARENTLY the Society of Biblical Literature opened its call for papers yesterday for the 2012 annual meeting in Chicago. I have been expecting to receive e-mail notification when it happened, but nothing has arrived. But in any case, you can find information on the SBL website here . Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/a-computer-algorithm-for-greek-paleography-1328786766/ http://www.jewpi.com/a-computer-algorithm-for-greek-paleography-1328786766/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:26:06 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/a-computer-algorithm-for-greek-paleography-1328786766/ AN ARMY OF (STUDENT) PALEOGRAPHERS is teaching a computer algorithm how to transcribe the Oxyrhynchus papyri: Excavators find treasure in Egyptian trash heap University experts are trying to match Greek letters to symbols found on ancient fragments of papyri. By Jill Jensen (mndaily. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/more-on-new-dss-in-nyc-exhibit-1328786169/ http://www.jewpi.com/more-on-new-dss-in-nyc-exhibit-1328786169/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:16:09 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/more-on-new-dss-in-nyc-exhibit-1328786169/ MORE ON THE NEW SCROLLS at the Discovery Times Square exhibition: Dead Sea Scrolls get new life Written By John R. QuainPublished February 08, 2012 (FoxNews.com)The most extensive public display of 2,000-year-old Biblical documents just got a refresh. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/talmud-blog-book-club-latest-1328785566/ http://www.jewpi.com/talmud-blog-book-club-latest-1328785566/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:06:06 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/talmud-blog-book-club-latest-1328785566/ THE TALMUD BLOG: Definite Article – The Book Club II . Responses to Zvi Septimus’ article “Trigger Words and Simultexts: The Experience of Reading the Bavli.”Background here . Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/new-book-henze-ed-a-companion-to-biblical-interpretation-in-early-judaism-1328784971/ http://www.jewpi.com/new-book-henze-ed-a-companion-to-biblical-interpretation-in-early-judaism-1328784971/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:56:11 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/new-book-henze-ed-a-companion-to-biblical-interpretation-in-early-judaism-1328784971/ NEW BOOK: A Companion to Biblical Interpretation in Early Judaism , ed. Matthias Henze (Eerdmans 2012) A Companion to Biblical Interpretation in Early Judaism presents eighteen commissioned articles on biblical exegesis in early Judaism, covering the period after the Hebrew Bible was written and before the beginning of rabbinic Judaism. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/sbl-call-for-papers-christian-apocrypha-1328702525/ http://www.jewpi.com/sbl-call-for-papers-christian-apocrypha-1328702525/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:02:05 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/sbl-call-for-papers-christian-apocrypha-1328702525/ TONY BURKE: Christian Apocrypha at 2012 SBL . Once again, the Society of Biblical Literature has put off the opening of their 2012 call for papers until tomorrow. Meanwhile, in many places in the blogosphere and on discussion lists, SBL groups are making the announcements independently. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/hurtado-on-the-annotated-jewish-new-testament-1328702051/ http://www.jewpi.com/hurtado-on-the-annotated-jewish-new-testament-1328702051/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:54:11 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/hurtado-on-the-annotated-jewish-new-testament-1328702051/ LARRY HURTADO has posted a reviewlet of The Jewish Annotated New Testament , eds. Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler (Oxford University Press, 2011). He reports that he will have more to say in a panel discussion later this year.I noted the book a couple of months ago here . Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/review-of-koosed-gleaning-ruth-1328701446/ http://www.jewpi.com/review-of-koosed-gleaning-ruth-1328701446/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:44:06 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/review-of-koosed-gleaning-ruth-1328701446/ BOOK REVIEW : Jennifer L. Koosed. Gleaning Ruth: A Biblical Heroine and Her Afterlives. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2011. xiv + 173 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-57003-983-6. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/templeton-foundation-grant-and-conference-1328700845/ http://www.jewpi.com/templeton-foundation-grant-and-conference-1328700845/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:34:05 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/templeton-foundation-grant-and-conference-1328700845/ THE TEMPLETON FOUNDATION is offering support for projects on the philosophical theology of early Jewish texts. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/workshop-on-ancient-religion-modern-technology-1328609892/ http://www.jewpi.com/workshop-on-ancient-religion-modern-technology-1328609892/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:18:12 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/workshop-on-ancient-religion-modern-technology-1328609892/ WORKSHOP at Brown University on 13-14 February: Ancient Religion, Modern Technology . This workshop will explore the intersection of ancient religion and the digital humanities. Can digital tools not only allow us to do our work faster and more thoroughly but also enable entirely new kinds of research? How might different digital data (e.g. Read [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/new-dss-in-nyc-1328609168/ http://www.jewpi.com/new-dss-in-nyc-1328609168/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:06:08 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/new-dss-in-nyc-1328609168/ THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS EXHIBITION at Discovery Times Square is being refreshed: NYC’s Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit has 10 new scrolls (AP). Lots of interesting variety in the new collection.Background here and links. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/tu-bshevat-1328608690/ http://www.jewpi.com/tu-bshevat-1328608690/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:58:10 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/tu-bshevat-1328608690/ TU B’SHEVAT , the New Year for Trees , begins tonight at sundown. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/bntc-2012-call-for-papers-1328608090/ http://www.jewpi.com/bntc-2012-call-for-papers-1328608090/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:48:10 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/bntc-2012-call-for-papers-1328608090/ THE BRITISH NEW TESTAMENT SOCIETY has issued a call for papers for its 2012 meeting on 6-8 September at Kings College London. As ever, Darrell Hannah and I are chairing the NT & Second Temple Judaism Seminar .UPDATE: I haven’t forgotten my promise last week to link to the Society of Biblical Literature call for [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/more-on-the-torah-scroll-fraudster-1328607020/ http://www.jewpi.com/more-on-the-torah-scroll-fraudster-1328607020/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:30:20 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/more-on-the-torah-scroll-fraudster-1328607020/ DOROTHY LOBEL KING has been on this story too, and she too saw problems when it was coming out some years ago: Rabbi admits Torah tales were a fraud .Background here . Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/a-first-century-copy-of-the-gospel-of-mark-1328528171/ http://www.jewpi.com/a-first-century-copy-of-the-gospel-of-mark-1328528171/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:36:11 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/a-first-century-copy-of-the-gospel-of-mark-1328528171/ DANIEL B. WALLACE, of Dallas Theological Seminary, has announced (in a debate with Bart Ehrman, reported on Professor Wallace’s blog, Parchment & Pen) that numerous very early manuscripts of the Gospel of Mark, including one from the first century, are soon to be published: Ehrman vs Wallace: Round Three . Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/phoenician-bling-1328438047/ http://www.jewpi.com/phoenician-bling-1328438047/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:34:07 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/phoenician-bling-1328438047/ Another in PaleoJudaica’s series on ancient bling: A golden exhibit for Spain February 4, 2012 • Lead, Sevilla • 4 Comments ( The Olive Press )IT has been kept locked away for years, with the public only having seen it five times since it was first discovered. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/another-review-of-the-nyc-dss-exhibit-1328437563/ http://www.jewpi.com/another-review-of-the-nyc-dss-exhibit-1328437563/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:26:03 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/another-review-of-the-nyc-dss-exhibit-1328437563/ A SUPERCILIOUS REVIEW by Jenna Weissman Joselit in The Forward , which emphasizes the elements of tourist tackiness in the exhibition: Thou Shalt Suspend Disbelief: Dead Sea Scrolls Come to Times Square Tourist Land . Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/torah-scroll-fraudster-1328394246/ http://www.jewpi.com/torah-scroll-fraudster-1328394246/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:24:06 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/torah-scroll-fraudster-1328394246/ THIS IS SAD. And strange. And annoying. ‘Jewish Indiana Jones’ faces jail for $1m fraud after lying about daring trips to save ancient Torah scrolls Claimed he was ‘beaten up, thrown in jail, and [went] $175,000 into debt’ to rescue relics Said he Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/golden-jubilee-for-vermes-dead-sea-scrolls-in-english-1328268861/ http://www.jewpi.com/golden-jubilee-for-vermes-dead-sea-scrolls-in-english-1328268861/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:34:21 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/golden-jubilee-for-vermes-dead-sea-scrolls-in-english-1328268861/ CONGRATULATIONS TO GEZA VERMES: Emeritus Fellow Geza Vermes celebrates Dead Sea Scrolls golden jubilee 2 February 2012Professor Geza Vermes Wolfson College was honoured to welcome Emeritus Fellow Geza Vermes and Penguin Books on 23rd January for the Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/biblioblog-carnival-for-february-1328268364/ http://www.jewpi.com/biblioblog-carnival-for-february-1328268364/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:26:05 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/biblioblog-carnival-for-february-1328268364/ THE BIBLIOBLOG CARNIVAL FEBRUARY 2012 has been posted by Amanda MacInnis at the Cheese-Wearing Theology blog. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/csss-symposium-xii-november-10-2012-plus-syriac-sbl-1328267526/ http://www.jewpi.com/csss-symposium-xii-november-10-2012-plus-syriac-sbl-1328267526/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:12:06 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/csss-symposium-xii-november-10-2012-plus-syriac-sbl-1328267526/ CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT: The Canadian Society for Syriac Studies (CSSS) will hold its annual Symposium XII entitled Studies on Syriac Manuscripts: Texts, Illuminations, and Collections, on Saturday November 10, 2012, 9 am to 5 pm. The CSSS welcomes a limited number of speakers to present papers related to this theme. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/new-book-greengus-laws-in-the-bible-and-in-early-rabbinic-collections-1328267049/ http://www.jewpi.com/new-book-greengus-laws-in-the-bible-and-in-early-rabbinic-collections-1328267049/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:04:09 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/new-book-greengus-laws-in-the-bible-and-in-early-rabbinic-collections-1328267049/ NEW BOOK from Wipf and Stock: Laws in the Bible and in Early Rabbinic Collections The Legal Legacy of the Ancient Near East By Samuel Greengus-Book DescriptionThe remarkable discovery of ancient Near Eastern law collections or “codes,” beginning with Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/bad-news-for-classicists-1328266341/ http://www.jewpi.com/bad-news-for-classicists-1328266341/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:52:21 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/bad-news-for-classicists-1328266341/ CONSTANTINA KATSARI: Redundancies at the Foundation of the Hellenic World .Possibly cross-post under “Higher Education Bubble,” although this sounds more like a side effect of the Greek economic disaster in general. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/etrogs-in-an-ancient-garden-at-ramat-rachel-1328182569/ http://www.jewpi.com/etrogs-in-an-ancient-garden-at-ramat-rachel-1328182569/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:36:09 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/etrogs-in-an-ancient-garden-at-ramat-rachel-1328182569/ POLLEN from a Persian-Period garden has yielded up some surprises: Jerusalem dig uncovers earliest evidence of local cultivation of etrogs Pollen reveals ancient palace grew the citrus in its garden. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/coptic-incantation-texts-online-1328181966/ http://www.jewpi.com/coptic-incantation-texts-online-1328181966/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:26:06 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/coptic-incantation-texts-online-1328181966/ ALIN SUCIU has found yet another venerable Coptic resource online: A. Kropp, Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte .The Coptic magical texts draw on a great many Jewish traditions. You can find lots of them in English translation in Marvin Meyer and Richard Smith (eds.) Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power . Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/google-and-the-dead-sea-scrolls-1328181246/ http://www.jewpi.com/google-and-the-dead-sea-scrolls-1328181246/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:14:06 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/google-and-the-dead-sea-scrolls-1328181246/ LINA BROYDO visits the Dead Sea Scrolls online with Google and on site in Israel: Google Offers Stroll Through Dead Sea Scrolls ( The Epoch Times ). The Discovery Times Square exhibition is also mentioned in passing, but not reviewed. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/speaking-of-replicas-of-archaeology-sites-1328095828/ http://www.jewpi.com/speaking-of-replicas-of-archaeology-sites-1328095828/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:30:28 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/speaking-of-replicas-of-archaeology-sites-1328095828/ CAN’T MAKE IT UP: Blooming Prairie couple design, build cave for Vatican .Posted: Jan 31, 2012, 10: 10 amBy John WeissThe Post-Bulletin, Rochester MNBLOOMING PRAIRIE — Once the 800-square-foot cave replica was shipped to the Vatican, Chris and Linda Beech were able to take a deep breath and get back to their usual jobs of [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/ancient-language-composition-1328095205/ http://www.jewpi.com/ancient-language-composition-1328095205/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:20:05 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/ancient-language-composition-1328095205/ ADAM MCCOLLUM has a post on Translating into and composing in ancient languages at the hmmlorientalia blog. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/coptic-apocrypha-1328094245/ http://www.jewpi.com/coptic-apocrypha-1328094245/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:04:05 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/coptic-apocrypha-1328094245/ ALIN SUCIU: P. Lacau, Fragments d’apocryphes coptes . Downloadable as a pdf file. They include apocryphal gospels (?), the Acts of Pilate, and an Apocalypse of Bartholomew. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/herods-tomb-again-1328093764/ http://www.jewpi.com/herods-tomb-again-1328093764/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:56:04 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/herods-tomb-again-1328093764/ TODD BOLEN is skeptical of the Haaretz report on the proposed reconstruction of Herod’s Tomb: Reconstruction of Herod’s Tomb Criticized . Excerpt: Whether or not a monument that helps the public to visualize the tomb (and thus increases visits to the site) is a good thing or not can be debated. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/new-book-dimant-ed-the-dead-sea-scrolls-in-scholarly-perspective-1328008457/ http://www.jewpi.com/new-book-dimant-ed-the-dead-sea-scrolls-in-scholarly-perspective-1328008457/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:14:17 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/new-book-dimant-ed-the-dead-sea-scrolls-in-scholarly-perspective-1328008457/ NEW BOOK from Brill: The Dead Sea Scrolls in Scholarly Perspective: A History of Research Edited by Devorah DimantThe volume consists of 27 surveys of research into the Dead Sea Scrolls in the past 60 years, written by 26 authors. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/afghan-manuscripts-update-1328007964/ http://www.jewpi.com/afghan-manuscripts-update-1328007964/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:06:04 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/afghan-manuscripts-update-1328007964/ THE AFGHAN JEWISH MANUSCRIPTS are mentioned briefly in a Reuters article on another Afghan antiquity: Germany returns two millennia old Afghan sculpture . Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/cuts-in-hebrew-at-temple-u-1328007141/ http://www.jewpi.com/cuts-in-hebrew-at-temple-u-1328007141/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:52:21 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/cuts-in-hebrew-at-temple-u-1328007141/ HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE: Hebrew major cut deserves a fair compromise January 30, 2012 by Donald Hopkins Filed under Commentary, Opinion, ( The Temple News ) PMHopkins argues that while the decision to cut Hebrew as a major is logical, the non-tenured track position is still necessary. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/ostromir-gospels-added-to-unescos-memory-of-the-world-program-1328006531/ http://www.jewpi.com/ostromir-gospels-added-to-unescos-memory-of-the-world-program-1328006531/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:42:11 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/ostromir-gospels-added-to-unescos-memory-of-the-world-program-1328006531/ CHURCH SLAVONIC WATCH: Old Russian book part of Memory of the World Tags: Russia, World, UNESCO World Heritage , Commentary, Culture, GospelOlga BugrovaJan 30, 2012 17: 11 Moscow TimeThe Ostromir Gospels, the second oldest dated East Slavic book, has Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/book-review-hidary-dispute-for-the-sake-of-heaven-1328006164/ http://www.jewpi.com/book-review-hidary-dispute-for-the-sake-of-heaven-1328006164/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:36:04 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/book-review-hidary-dispute-for-the-sake-of-heaven-1328006164/ BOOK REVIEW: Richard Hidary. Dispute for the Sake of Heaven: Legal Pluralism in the Talmud. Providence Brown Judaic Studies, 2010. xii + 441 pp.$65.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-930675-77-3. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/a-list-of-biblical-verses-cited-in-the-talmud-1327923006/ http://www.jewpi.com/a-list-of-biblical-verses-cited-in-the-talmud-1327923006/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:30:06 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/a-list-of-biblical-verses-cited-in-the-talmud-1327923006/ MICHAEL SATLOW and his team have compiled a list of all the biblical verses cited in the Babylonian Talmud. Like the new index of the Talmud, this a resource that will undoubtedly be very useful. For details see his recent post at the Talmud Blog: One pesuk, two pesuk, three pesukim more…- Guest Post by [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/review-of-roberge-the-paraphrase-of-shem-1327922644/ http://www.jewpi.com/review-of-roberge-the-paraphrase-of-shem-1327922644/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:24:04 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/review-of-roberge-the-paraphrase-of-shem-1327922644/ RBL REVIEW: The Paraphrase of Shem (NH VII,1): Introduction, Translation and Commentary Roberge, MichelLeiden: Brill, 2010 pp. xii + 192. $122.00Series Information Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies, 72Description: This book presents the first comprehensive interpretation of the Paraphrase of Shem, Codex VII,1 in the Coptic Nag Hammadi Library. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/a-herods-tomb-theme-park-1327834449/ http://www.jewpi.com/a-herods-tomb-theme-park-1327834449/#comments Sun, 29 Jan 2012 10:54:09 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/a-herods-tomb-theme-park-1327834449/ CONTROVERSY OVER HEROD’S TOMB: Top archeologists condemn Israeli plan to rebuild ancient tomb The plan, promoted by the Israel Nature and Parks Authority and the Gush Etzion Regional Council, includes rebuilding the tomb of Herod the Great in West Bank. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/tur-abdin-1327833256/ http://www.jewpi.com/tur-abdin-1327833256/#comments Sun, 29 Jan 2012 10:34:16 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/tur-abdin-1327833256/ (NEO-)ARAMAIC WATCH: Exploring the Tur Abdin a forgotten treasure of southeastern Turkey 29 January 2012 / PAT YALE , MARDİN ( Sunday’s Zaman )Imagine a landscape of narrow country roads hemmed in by dry stone walls. Imagine village after honey-colored village, each with its church tower punctuating the skyline. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/fellowships-and-grants-1327830367/ http://www.jewpi.com/fellowships-and-grants-1327830367/#comments Sun, 29 Jan 2012 09:46:07 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/fellowships-and-grants-1327830367/ SOME FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES for various relevant areas of research are gathered below. Click on the links for further details for each. 3 POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOWSDEPARTMENT OF HISTORYHUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY, BERLIN (GERMANY)FUNDED BY THE EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL Within the European Research Council Advanced Grant 2011 “FOUNDMED. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/npr-interviews-talmud-indexer-1327785005/ http://www.jewpi.com/npr-interviews-talmud-indexer-1327785005/#comments Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:10:05 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/npr-interviews-talmud-indexer-1327785005/ DANIEL RETTER is interviewed by NPR about his new index of the Babylonian Talmud: A Lawyer, Not A Sage, Creates Talmud Index . Excerpt from the transcript: RETTER: Well, it was a seven-year labor of love. The methodology involved was the idea of being able to find entries or topics. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/ancient-wine-1327661163/ http://www.jewpi.com/ancient-wine-1327661163/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:46:03 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/ancient-wine-1327661163/ ANOTHER CRUCIAL CONTRIBUTION of ancient Israel to modern civilization: Ancient Wine .Fun fact (unverified): “The Talmud describes 60 types of wines. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/footnote-nominated-for-an-oscar-1327660565/ http://www.jewpi.com/footnote-nominated-for-an-oscar-1327660565/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:36:05 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/footnote-nominated-for-an-oscar-1327660565/ FOOTNOTE has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.Background on the film is here and links. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/more-murder-at-nag-hammadi-1327659972/ http://www.jewpi.com/more-murder-at-nag-hammadi-1327659972/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:26:12 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/more-murder-at-nag-hammadi-1327659972/ NAG HAMMADI is back in the news; not, alas, for any new discoveries of Gnostic manuscripts: Two Copts Killed in Egypt For Refusing to Pay Extortion Money (AINA).It seems that this is getting to be a dangerous place.Background here . Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/new-issue-of-hugoye-1327575244/ http://www.jewpi.com/new-issue-of-hugoye-1327575244/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:54:04 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/new-issue-of-hugoye-1327575244/ HUGOYE: JOURNAL OF SYRIAC STUDIES has just published a new issue (15.1 ). TOC: Volume 15 (Winter 2012) IntroductionGeorge A. KirazPapers Ktabe Mpassqe, Dismembered and Reconstituted Syriac and Christian Palestinian Aramaic Manuscripts: Some Examples, Ancient and ModernSebastian P. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/virtual-bible-museum-1327574767/ http://www.jewpi.com/virtual-bible-museum-1327574767/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:46:07 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/virtual-bible-museum-1327574767/ THE BIBLE AND ARCHAEOLOGY – ONLINE MUSEUM is noted by Todd Bolen at the Bible Places blog. Lots of nice photos, and the captions seem pretty reasonable. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/afghan-manuscripts-update-1327487895/ http://www.jewpi.com/afghan-manuscripts-update-1327487895/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:38:15 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/afghan-manuscripts-update-1327487895/ THE AFGHAN JEWISH MANUSCRIPTS are treated in a JTA article by Ben Harris: Mystery swirls around Judaic manuscripts discovered in Afghanistan . It has some new information, or at least new rumors: But that doesn’t mean there aren’t lots of colorful stories floating around. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/new-book-hovhanessian-ed-the-canon-of-the-bible-and-the-apocrypha-in-the-churches-of-the-east-1327487283/ http://www.jewpi.com/new-book-hovhanessian-ed-the-canon-of-the-bible-and-the-apocrypha-in-the-churches-of-the-east-1327487283/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:28:03 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/new-book-hovhanessian-ed-the-canon-of-the-bible-and-the-apocrypha-in-the-churches-of-the-east-1327487283/ NEW BOOK on the Christian Orthodox biblical tradition from Peter Lang: Hovhanessian, Vahan S. (ed.) The Canon of the Bible and the Apocrypha in the Churches of the East Series: Bible in the Christian Orthodox Tradition – Volume 2Year of Publication: 2012New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2012. VIII, 113 pp. [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/some-coptic-biblical-fragments-in-dublin-1327486691/ http://www.jewpi.com/some-coptic-biblical-fragments-in-dublin-1327486691/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:18:11 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/some-coptic-biblical-fragments-in-dublin-1327486691/ ALIN SUCIU: A Preliminary Report Concerning the Coptic Biblical Fragments in the Possession of the Trinity College in Dublin . Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/errata-list-for-sokoloffs-a-syriac-lexicon-1327486229/ http://www.jewpi.com/errata-list-for-sokoloffs-a-syriac-lexicon-1327486229/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:10:29 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/errata-list-for-sokoloffs-a-syriac-lexicon-1327486229/ THE NEW EDITION OF BROCKELMAN’S LEXICON SYRIACUM , edited by Michael Sokoloff and published by Gorgias press, has now produced a pdf document with corrections to first printing and orthographic variants . I noted the first printing of the Sokoloff edition in 2009 here . The current advert for the book is here . Read [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/more-on-the-afghan-manuscripts-1327404846/ http://www.jewpi.com/more-on-the-afghan-manuscripts-1327404846/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:34:06 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/more-on-the-afghan-manuscripts-1327404846/ THE JEWISH MANUSCRIPTS FROM AFGHANISTAN are covered in a Reuters article that has some new details: Scholars intrigued by Afghan scrolls . Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/hekhal-1327404139/ http://www.jewpi.com/hekhal-1327404139/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:22:19 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/hekhal-1327404139/ HEKHAL : The Irish Society for the Study of the Ancient Near East HEKHAL was created by a group of four(*) Trinity College Dublin graduates who wish to promote research in the fields of ancient near eastern history and historiography, biblical Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/new-book-townsend-vidas-revelation-literature-and-community-in-late-antiquity-1327403532/ http://www.jewpi.com/new-book-townsend-vidas-revelation-literature-and-community-in-late-antiquity-1327403532/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:12:12 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/new-book-townsend-vidas-revelation-literature-and-community-in-late-antiquity-1327403532/ NEW BOOK from Mohr Siebeck: Revelation, Literature, and Community in Late Antiquity Ed. by Philippa Townsend and Moulie Vidas This volume stems from a conference held at Princeton University, which brought together leading scholars in the study of ancient religions. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/latest-on-talmud-blog-book-club-1327314495/ http://www.jewpi.com/latest-on-talmud-blog-book-club-1327314495/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:28:15 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/latest-on-talmud-blog-book-club-1327314495/ THE TALMUD BLOG BOOK CLUB has finished its discussion of its first book and has posted a response by the author. See the post Clearing out the Living Room . Next it will be discussing an article: Zvi Septimus’ “Trigger Words and Simultexts: The Experience of Reading the Bavli,” now available as a pdf file [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/wayne-stiles-visits-the-western-wall-tunnel-1327314124/ http://www.jewpi.com/wayne-stiles-visits-the-western-wall-tunnel-1327314124/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:22:04 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/wayne-stiles-visits-the-western-wall-tunnel-1327314124/ TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: Wayne Stiles reports on the Western Wall Tunnel: Sights and Insights: Jerusalem down under By WAYNE STILES01/23/2012 11: 09 ( Jerusalem Post )The Western Wall Tunnel allows visitors to explore the full length of the Kotel, seeing first-century Jerusalem. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/egyptian-blogger-update-1327313422/ http://www.jewpi.com/egyptian-blogger-update-1327313422/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:10:22 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/egyptian-blogger-update-1327313422/ EGYPTIAN BLOGGER Maikel Nabil Sanad has been “pardoned”: Egypt pardons jailed blogger as generals brace for anniversary protests Maikel Nabil Sanad among almost 2,000 prisoners convicted by military tribunals over the past year who are set to be released Jack Shenker in Cairo guardian.co.uk, Sunday 22 January 2012 11. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/dragons-in-the-news-1327230487/ http://www.jewpi.com/dragons-in-the-news-1327230487/#comments Sun, 22 Jan 2012 11:08:07 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/dragons-in-the-news-1327230487/ HERE BE DRAGONS is an entertainly survey of dragon mythology by Rouwen Lin in the Malaysia Star . Excerpts of interest: The Sumerian and Babylonian dragon myths, symbolising the creation of order out of chaos, were the earliest to surface, with written records going back several thousand years BC. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/back-story-to-rashis-daughters-1327229645/ http://www.jewpi.com/back-story-to-rashis-daughters-1327229645/#comments Sun, 22 Jan 2012 10:54:05 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/back-story-to-rashis-daughters-1327229645/ THIS ARTICLE on Maggie Anton has some interesting background on the author and the genesis of the books: Author of ‘Rashi’s Daughters’ to speak, sign books in Savannah on Jan. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/controversy-over-jerusalem-national-parks-1327185260/ http://www.jewpi.com/controversy-over-jerusalem-national-parks-1327185260/#comments Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:34:20 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/controversy-over-jerusalem-national-parks-1327185260/ POLITICS: In Jerusalem, national parks seen by Palestinians as a land grab Seven existing and planned parks in sensitive East Jerusalem, chosen in part for their archaeological significance, would expand areas of Jewish control where Palestinians envision a future capital. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/bridge-demolition-update-1327184768/ http://www.jewpi.com/bridge-demolition-update-1327184768/#comments Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:26:08 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/bridge-demolition-update-1327184768/ NO, not the Mughrabi Gate Bridge , the other one: Bridge at Rabbi Bar Yochai’s grave demolished without protests by ultra-Orthodox Jews Some 100 policemen guard operation, fearing violent ultra-Orthodox protests; bridge was built illegally. Read More »]]> 0