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Philip Esler, "Reading Biblical Narrative with Its Ancient Audience"
PHILIP ESLER has an essay posted at the Bible and Interpretation website:Reading Biblical Narrative with Its Ancient AudienceCultures similar to, but certainly not the same as, those of ancient Israel...
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Talmud Blog Book Club on Rosen-Zvi, "Demonic Desires"
THE TALMUD BLOG BOOK CLUB has posted its first book discussion: The Book Club: Ishay Rosen-Zvi’s Demonic Desires. The first of many, I hope.
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How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming by Mike Brown
I’ve known about this book for a while, but the title put me off reading it. It sounds too smug to me, and while there are reasons for reclassifying Pluto I don’t think it’s something astronomers could...
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Supplying the Collectors' Market: Tomb-Robbing in China
."China's extraordinary historical treasures are under threat from increasingly aggressive and sophisticated tomb raiders, who destroy precious archaeological evidence as they swipe irreplaceable...
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Tweet from @portableant
@portableant: The Roman 'brothel token' record on the @findsorguk database http://bit.ly/zDEYUP by Kath Creed and Pip Walton #archaeologyThis is a rare pornographic token - the only one found in the...
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The Best Footnote Ever, In The Best Introduction Ever?
HT Marc CortezUPDATE: The book in question is Stats: Modeling the World (or perhaps the first edition, which was called Stats: data and models, which included the same footnote) written by David E....
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Stanford archaeologist questions the role of human rights in site preservation
Stanford archaeologist questions the role of human rights in site preservation
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From my diary
I’ve been trying to do a little scanning today, but not getting very far. I have a copy of Michael Bourdeaux’s Patriarch and Prophets : Persecution of the Russian Orthodox Church (1968) here to do....
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Cambridge Digital Library - Islamic Manuscripts
Cambridge Digital Library - Islamic Manuscripts"Cambridge University Library's collection of Islamic manuscripts dates from the origins of Arabic scholarship in Cambridge in the 1630s when the...
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Multi- and Cross-Disciplinary Research: Getting Organized
Leaving the starting blocks This is where it all starts. Today is officially the first day of my fellowship, and I need to get myself into gear and out of those starting blocks. I’ve done...
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Putting a Happy Face on ECA's Work-- But No Mention of Its Import...
The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs has posted this year in review on the State Department's Blog:...
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A true translation: Updates on Matto Grosso (1931), and The Hoax (1932)
A little boy holding a slate or chip chart to identify a scene ( # 27414) Regular readers of the Penn Museum blog may recall a post about an exciting film re-identification and discovery, in which we...
View ArticleHesperia 80.4 Now Online
The ASCSA is pleased to announce the publication of Hesperia 80.4 which is now available on JSTOR and will be in print soon.
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Reaching Back 2,000 Years to Unravel a Curse
Reaching Back 2,000 Years to Unravel a Curse - NYTimes.com
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De Kooning Devotee: John Elderfield, chief curator emeritus of painting and sculpture, Museum of Modern Art[Part I is here.]Just when I was feeling the old art-exhibition ennui, 2011's two standout...
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Mummy of the Month: Hapi-Men and Hapi-Puppy
The Hapi-Men Mummy During a 1902 excavation at Abydos, Sir Flinders Petrie excavated the tomb of a man identified by the inscription on his stone sarcophagus as “…the third priest of Mut… the Priest of...
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Inside the Program for the Annual Meeting Committee
by Peter Herdrich, CEO January 5th marks the beginning of the Academic Program of the 113th Annual Meeting of the AIA, where our professional members report on their work and share the latest research...
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Online Prepublication: Babylonian Chronicles of the Hellenistic Period
Mesopotamian Chronicles Cuneiform tablet mentioning the capture of Jerusalemin 597 (text;BritishMuseum)Babylonian Chronicles of the HellenisticPeriod (= BCHP)....is beingprepared by Irving Finkel of...
View ArticleOrigen update
There’s not that much more to do on the Origen on Ezekiel book, and the translator has been in touch. Homily 7 needs revision, which is the next priority. After that, there’s some formatting changes...
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