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A New Mailing List: Sudan Dams Crisis
A New Mailing List: Sudan Dams CrisisNew Dams on the Nile and Atbara and their effects on human rights, environment, and heritage.The last dam built on the Nile, at the Fourth Cataract, was completed...
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Latest news in Excavate! Spring 2012
Thanks Tim and Lillian for writing, linking, and organizing! Excavate! Number 24
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AIA TALKS: Mesopotamian Women and Neo-Assyrian Palaces 13 February 2012
Dr. Allison Thomason of Southern Illinois University completed her PhD at Columbia University. She is author of Luxury and Legitimation: Royal Collecting in Ancient Mesopotamia. She will share her...
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Another re-issue: James Robinson, The Story of the Bodmer Papyri
The Story of the Bodmer PapyriFrom the First Monastery’s Library in Upper Egypt to Geneva and DublinBy James M. Robinson
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Yet another re-issue: P. Comfort, Early Manuscripts and Modern Translations...
Early Manuscripts and Modern Translations of the New TestamentBy Philip Wesley Comfort
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One last re-issue: G. Zuntz, The Text of the Epistles (Etc.)
The Text of the Epistles: A Disquisition Upon the Corpus PaulinumThe Schweich Lectures of The British Academy, 1946By G. ZuntzETC.:Aramaic Papyri ofthe Fifth Century B.C. By A. E. CowleyRetail Price:...
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Fifth International Society for Arabic Papyrology Conference, Carthage, March...
Fifth International Society for Arabic Papyrology Conference, Carthage, March 28-31, 2012The fifth ISAP conference will be hosted by the Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts, Beït...
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Debatable terms: “marriage”
This one is going to be very meta: the focus of my discussion is my own writing in another blog. In response to a provocation from a politician with a loose hold on historical facts, yesterday I posted...
View ArticleFunny Mythicist Quote of the Day (Neil Godfrey)
“Recently one theologian who teaches an undergraduate historical Jesus class recommended to me two works on historiographical methods. When I quoted back to him key sections that contradicted the most...
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University of Chicago Persian antiquities Crisis
The National Iranian American Council ("a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the interests of the Iranian-American community") is warning that a new proposal by Senator Robert...
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The Forensics of Temperance Brennan
In the December issue of American Anthropologist, forensic anthropologist Heather Walsh-Haney published an interesting review article on the forensics in Kathy Reichs' series of Temperance Brennan...
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Both “Biblical” and Weak in Faith?
Today in my Sunday school class we reached Romans 14, which famously discusses the relationship between the “weak” and the “strong” in the church in Rome.We began by noting that everyone who reads this...
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Call for Papers: UMAC 2012
Readers may be interested in the upcoming International Committee for University Museums and Collections 12th Annual Meeting to be held at the National University of Singapore this October. Paper...
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The Earliest Manuscript of Mark’s Gospel?
The news is circulating from a blog post by Dan Wallace (picked up by Joel Watts and Brian LePort) that a manuscript of the Gospel of Mark has been found which has been dated on paleographical grounds...
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Vienna manuscripts online
Via Klaus Graf:There is no list nor announcement on the website but some manuscripts from the Vienna Austrian National Library are online. You can search the HANNA catalog for the string...
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Call for papers: Manuscripts from Eastern Xn traditions at SBL
For the second year, there will be a session ("workshop") on manuscripts from eastern Christian traditions at SBL, to take place in Chicago, Nov 17-20, 2012, and I invite you to consider preparing a...
View ArticleSci-Fi and Fantasy Super Bowl Commercials
It is really striking just how many of the Super Bowl commercials this year have had a sci-fi focus – and one fits the category of fantasy, featuring vampires. Which was your favorite? The Star Wars...
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International Medieval Congress, Leeds -- update
Please find below the latest installment of the International Medieval Congress, Leeds Newsletter. We hope through the newsletter to keep in touch with IMC participants past and present, and to inform...
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