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Open Access Journal: CSA Newsletter
[First posted in AWOL 2 November 2009. Updated 8 February 2012]CSA NewsletterThe CSA Newsletter is a Web-based publication produced three times per year — April (formerly called the Spring issue),...
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About the Myth of Cupid and Psyche
Cupid and Psyche is one of the great love stories of the ancient world and it even has a happy ending. It's also a myth where a heroine must show ...Read Full Post
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Death of Robert Hecht announced
It appears that Robert Hecht died in Paris earlier today (February 8, 2012). Details have been posted by Jason Felch on LA Times (Culture Monster) ("Robert E. Hecht Jr., figure in antiquities case...
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Cristiano Leone, Alphunsus de Arabicis eventibus. Studio ed edizione critica
Cristiano Leone, Alphunsus de Arabicis eventibus. Studio ed edizione critica, Rome, 2011. Éditeur : Accademia Nazionale dei LinceiCollection : Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di...
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Doctor Who: The Oldest Question and the Last of the Time Lords
The revelation that the oldest question in the universe is “Doctor Who?” and the giving of an answer to it has religious and universal significance both thrilled and puzzled fans of the show. The...
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Call for Applications: The Australian Historic Shipwreck Protection Project
From the Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre, an opportunity for Southeast Asian Archaeologists to train in an underwater archaeology fieldwork project in Australia: The Australian Historic Shipwreck Protection...
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A Brief History of Bioarchaeology: Part II - Italy
Author's Note: This is the second post in what I envision as a series addressing the history and practice of bioarchaeology around the world. The first post was Part I - America. Tantae molis erat...
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Lueke Lances Lanze: "Wie es ist in Yuropa"
.Jorg Lueke ('Most Ancient Coins are Legal and Undocumented', A Historical Perspective, Tuesday, February 7, 2012) reckons: In general, what Mr. Barford doesn't seem to understand is that [...] Since...
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Robert Hecht Dead
.It has been reported that Robert Hecht has died in Paris, just three weeks after the end of his criminal trial in Rome on charges of trafficking in looted antiquities. He was 92.
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Another sensational claim from Indonesia
A presidential-sanctioned group named the Prehistoric Catastrophic Disaster Research Team is claiming that the megaliths on top of Mount Padang in West Java are in fact part of a larger structure...
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Coveting Others' Property
.When they are not maliciously sniping at fellow numismatists who raise the alarm about the damage done by the atavistic attitudes of the no-questions-asked antiquity collector, we have seen the coiney...
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2012.02.18: Once out of Nature: Augustine on Time and the Body
Review of Andrea Nightingale, Once out of Nature: Augustine on Time and the Body. Chicago; London: 2011. Pp. xiv, 244. $39.00. ISBN 9780226585758.
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2012.02.17: Reading Sin in the World. The Hamartigenia of Prudentius and the...
Review of Anthony Dykes, Reading Sin in the World. The Hamartigenia of Prudentius and the Vocation of the Responsible Reader. Cambridge; New York: 2011. Pp. xx, 273. $105.00. ISBN 9781107004535.
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2012.02.16: Body and Gender, Soul and Reason in Late Antiquity. Variorum...
Review of Gillian Clark, Body and Gender, Soul and Reason in Late Antiquity. Variorum collected studies series, CS978. Farnham; Burlington, VT: 2011. Pp. 346. $154.95. ISBN 9781409423751.
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New book: Henze (ed.), A Companion to Biblical Interpretation in Early Judaism
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...
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Talmud Blog Book Club latest
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.
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More on new DSS in NYC exhibit
MORE ON THE NEW SCROLLS at the Discovery Times Square exhibition:Dead Sea Scrolls get new lifeWritten By John R. QuainPublished February 08, 2012 (FoxNews.com)The most extensive public display of...
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A computer algorithm for Greek paleography
AN ARMY OF (STUDENT) PALEOGRAPHERS is teaching a computer algorithm how to transcribe the Oxyrhynchus papyri:Excavators find treasure in Egyptian trash heapUniversity experts are trying to match Greek...
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SBL Call for Papers?
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...
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VII campaña de prospecciones arqueológicas en Los Bañales con Diario de Campaña
Por el perfil de facebook de Los Bañales nos hemos enterdado de que próximamente va a comenzar una nueva campaña de prospeccciones arqueológicas en dicho yacimiento romano de las Cinco Villas...
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