Lecture on Amos and Hosea
Click here to view the embedded video.I recorded my class on Amos and Hosea. There were no separate slides prepared, and so you can simply listen to the lecture as a podcast. I hope to try recording...
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Archaeology and the Panopticon
(a dissertation snip) Working on archaeological projects is often like living in a fishbowl, and this was especially true at Çatalhöyük (Ashley 2004). When we were not being watched by the daily site...
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The Middle Eastern Geodatabase: A Monitoring System, But Can It Monitor...
Timothy Whalen, Director of the Getty Conservation Institute, comments on my earlier post,"This Is the Future of Archaeological Site Protection. Are Heritage Protection Advocates Listening?":You call...
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Lecture: Golani on Silver Hoards and Jewelry in the ANE
If you’re near Penn State and are free Thursday evening, you might want to attend a lecture recently added to the 2012-13 program of the Central Pennsylvania Society of the AIA. Dr. Amir Golani, Israel...
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Antiquities Auction Houses Must Now Reveal the Names of Sellers
I am not a lawyer, and look forward to hearing what Derek Fincham, Stephen Urice, Patti Gerstenblith and other legal scholars make of this new ruling. If it sticks it will make it far easier for...
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More on Rome's Forgotten Campaign - AD235
I must get round to setting up a separate category for the battle at Kalefeld/Harzhorn about the battle that took place around AD235 between the Romans under Maximinus Thrax and the Germans. I...
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Archaeologists find burnt stucco floor related to astronomical event 1,350...
TECOZAUTLA, MEXICO.- During the excavations in Pañhu, an archaeological zone which will soon open its doors to the public in the municipality of Tecozautla, Hidalgo, archaeologists registered a burn...
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2012.10.50: Selinus II: die punische Stadt auf der Akropolis. Sonderschriften...
Review of Sophie Helas, Selinus II: die punische Stadt auf der Akropolis. Sonderschriften / Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Rom, Bd 15. Wiesbaden: 2012. Pp. 370. €98.00. ISBN 9783895007088.
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Digital Classicist Berlin
Last Tuesday the new Digital Classicist in Berlin started with an introductory presentation given by Dr Gabriel Bodard, one of the two co-organizisers of the Digital Classicist in London, a series of...
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The Sota Project
ADULTERY MEETS THE TALMUD MEETS ART:Sota Project’: Sealed With a Kiss by Jonathan Maseng, Contributing Writer [JewishJournal.com] The Talmud is on display this month at the USC Fisher Museum of Art,...
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Carthage
PUNIC WATCH: Owen Jarus has posted a capsule history of Carthage at Live Science: Carthage: Ancient Phoenician City-State.
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Peer review and the GJW
MARK GOODACRE has some observations about how the online Gospel of Jesus' Wife controversy is affecting peer review: The Jesus' Wife Fragment and the Transformation of Peer Review? I like to post...
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Kabbalah 28
CHERUB PRESS has just announced the publication of a new volume of Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts:Kabbalah, Volume 28 (2012) 320 pp. [English and Hebrew] ISBN 1-933379-31-6...
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Thursday Photo
Entrance to TT1, the Theban Tomb of Sennedjem. This kind of pyramid structure is characteristic of Rammesside elite tombs. Photograph courtesy of Aegyptus on Facebook.
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Blogosphere ~ Birth of the Future Flavian Emperor Domitian
About.com Ancient / Classical History: Birth of the Future Flavian Emperor Domitian.
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Samantha Sutton and the Labyrinth of Lies
. Samantha Sutton and the Labyrinth of Lies ISBN-13: 978-1402275609 "Indiana Jones Meets Harriet the Spy in this action-packed adventure series. Twelve-year-old Samantha Sutton joins her uncle on his...
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Blogosphere ~ The Jesus’ Wife Fragment and the Transformation of Peer Review?
Mark Goodacre: The Jesus’ Wife Fragment and the Transformation of Peer Review?.
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Labyrinth of Lies
."Labyrinth of Lies": This seems a pretty good analogy to the no-questions-about-collecting-history part of it in which freshly dug up and smuggled finds are masked by the pretence that there is...
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