NEW BOOK FROM OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS:Ancient Synagogues in Palestine A Re-evaluation Nearly a Century After Sukenik's Schweich Lectures Jodi Magness British Academy Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archaeology £76.00 Hardback Published: 07 March 2024 128 Pages | 25 b/w images, 1 colour image, 1 table 234x156mm ISBN: 9780197267653 Description Dozens of ancient synagogues have been ..read more

HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY: Archaeological gem Dura-Europos found to be mirror image of Iraq's Anqa. Strategically located Dura-Europos was a ‘forgotten city’ in Syria and neglected by archaeologists who finally identified Iraq’s Anqa as its near-mirror image (Judy Siegel-Itzkovich, Jerusalem Post). The site sounds worthy of further exploration and scientific excavation. But that may be difficult in ..read more

ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: AJR Conversations I The New Testament: A Contemporary Introduction (Colleen Conway and David Maldonado Rívera).Below is an exchange between Colleen Conway and David Maldonado Rívera on Conway’s book, The New Testament: A Contemporary Introduction (Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2023). Visit PaleoJudaica daily for the latest news on ancient Judaism and the biblical world ..read more

HAPPY PASSOVER (PESACH) to all those celebrating! The festival begins this evening at sundown. Last year's Passover post is here, with links. Subsequent Passover-related posts are here, here, here, and here. Visit PaleoJudaica daily for the latest news on ancient Judaism and the biblical world ..read more

THE BIBLE AND INTERPRETATION:How Much Did They Really Know? Long-Term Memory, Archaeology and The Topography Of Nazareth Prompted by his recent book on the Archaeology of Jesus’ Nazareth, the author explores a historically plausible example of the long-term preservation of topographical knowledge from 19th century Nazareth, and its context in recent research on the archaeology and anthropology ..read more

NEW BOOK FROM CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS:The Nag Hammadi Codices and their Ancient Readers Exploring Textual Materiality and Reading Practice AUTHOR: Paul Linjamaa, Lunds Universitet, Sweden DATE PUBLISHED: January 2024 AVAILABILITY: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party. FORMAT: Adobe eBook Reader ISBN: 9781009441445 $ 110.00 USD Adobe ..read more

PASSOVER IS COMING: I (God) and Not an Angel: The Haggadah Counters Jesus and the Arma Christi. (Prof.Steven Weitzman, TheTorah.com).The Haggadah’s insistence that God, without an intermediary, saved the Israelites from Egypt is a veiled retort to the Christian belief that God relied on Jesus as an agent of redemption. Moreover, the midrash replaces the Arma Christi tradition of recounting the ..read more

DECORATIVE ART: Motza mosaicists: Putting an ancient Roman mosaic floor back together. Residents of a village near Jerusalem piece together an ancient Roman floor (SARA MANOBLA, Jerusalem Post).Friday, February 23, was a day of celebration. Our team of Motza mosaicists welcomed the villagers to the dedication ceremony. Deeply moved, [project organizer Shauli] Yossefon, assisted by his family ..read more

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