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Reflections on Haman
ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS for Purim: Would Israel's Courts Hang Haman?
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2012.03.13: Echoing Narratives: Studies of Intertextuality in Greek and Roman...
Review of Konstantin Doulamis, Echoing Narratives: Studies of Intertextuality in Greek and Roman Prose Fiction. Ancient narrative Supplementum 13. Groningen: 2011. Pp. xv, 210. €70.00. ISBN 9789077922859.
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2012.03.12: Playing the Farmer: Representations of Rural Life in Vergil’s...
Review of Philip Thibodeau, Playing the Farmer: Representations of Rural Life in Vergil’s "Georgics". Berkeley; Los Angeles; London: 2011. Pp. 326. $60.00. ISBN 9780520268326.
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Jesus Discovery latest
ASOR BLOG: The Talpiot Tomb and the Beatles (Mark Goodacre). No, really.There continues to be a lot of discussion in the biblioblogosphere. For a recent roundup, see James McGrath here.
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Palmyra a war zone
THE SITE OF PALMYRA in Syria is reportedly being used by the Syrian Government as a military camp and sniper nest, with any movement in the ruins bringing down gunfire: Syria's ancient desert city...
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NPR interviews Pagels
ELAINE PAGELS is interviewed by NPR about her new book:Book Of Revelation: 'Visions, Prophecy And Politics'RevelationsVisions, Prophecy, And Politics In The Book Of Revelationby Elaine H....
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Where is our Easter hoax?!
Christians are preparing themselves to celebrate Easter, so it’s not a wild guess that Biblical scholars are by now preparing their annual archaeological fundraising hoax. But something seems to be...
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A first look at the genome of the Tyrolean Iceman
Thanks to the publication of the Tyrolean Iceman's (reconstructed on the left) genome sequence, by Keller et al. (2012), I have been able to include him in a joint analysis with 2,671 other...
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The Women of Egypt and Egyptology: ancient, past, and present
In honour of international Women’s Day, an offering of a brief post celebrating the women of Egypt. Women in Egypt were probably better off than in other ancient cultures, as they could travel and...
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This Day in Ancient History: ante diem viii idus martias
ante diem viii idus martias Festival of Mars continues (day 8) 305 A.D. — martyrdom of Philemon and companions 1757 – death of Thomas Blackwell (Classical scholar)
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Reviews from BMCR
2012.03.13: Konstantin Doulamis, Echoing Narratives: Studies of Intertextuality in Greek and Roman Prose Fiction. Ancient narrative Supplementum 13. 2012.03.12: Philip Thibodeau, Playing the Farmer:...
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La nudité athlétique en Grèce antique
Une conférence de Onno Van Nijf. Le mercredi 21 mars 2012, l’UFR des Langues et cultures antiques et l’UFR des Sciences historiques, politiques et artistiques de l’université Lille 3 invitent Onno Van...
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Darwin cleared of deceit
Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace with a map of the world from The Geographical Distribution of Animals. Images: Wikimedia Commons Thanks to a generous gift, a National University of Singapore...
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Some More Thoughts on the Term Paper
In January, I made some offhand comments on the recent movement that has hailed the end to the formal research paper for college students. After some banter with Mick Beltz, the editor of Teaching...
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Useful Image Resource
Saw mention of the Imago database on the Classicists list and I don’t think I’ve mentioned it before. Here’s a bit from their ‘About’ page: IMAGO was conceived in 2010 to commemorate the Roman...
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Agreeing to affirm the intrinsic values of a university is one thing; agreeing what those values are is quite another. It might be doubted whether there really is anything distinctive that universities...
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Improving Archaeological Journalism
Tip o’ the pileus to Kristina Kilgrove, who alerted us to a very interesting post in the Guardian: Nine ways scientists can help improve science journalism. I reproduce the ‘meat’ article below, but...
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Cambodia not amused by replica Angkor Wat plans
As expected, the official reaction to the Bihar Mahavir Mandir Trust’s plan to build a replica Angkor Wat in Bihar that was same-same, but bigger was not positive. The Cambodian government has called...
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Happy International Women’s Day!
Happy International Women’s Day! And a tip for any American reader married to a Romanian woman: you don’t want to forget to wish your wife a happy International Women’s Day today and give her flowers....
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Open Access Journal: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Section C:...
Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Section C: Archaeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics and Literature Section C of the Proceedings publishes original research papers primarily in the...
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