With Thanks to Jim West: from theological musings- Dear Colleague I am deeply saddened to inform you that our dear friend, Professor Geza Vermes, passed away...
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judith weingarten
judithweinga...
May 9, 2013 3:38 pm
L.S., On the question of sailing seasons and routes, see now Caroline Sauvage, /Routes maritimes et systèmes d'échanges internationaux au Bronze récent en...
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Michael F. Lane
gbarrenador
May 9, 2013 9:28 pm
Dear all, I am hoping some of you can direct me to a comprehensive discussion of Cushitic loanwords in Semitic languages, presuming such exist. (I understand...
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Peter T. Daniels
grammatim
May 10, 2013 3:32 pm
I know of three recent sketches of Cushitic in relation to Semitic, two by David Appleyard (SOAS), in the Weninger volume from De Gruyter Mouton (in the...
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sbudin
maratshami
May 10, 2013 8:02 pm
Greetings, All, Could anyone on the list recommend some up-to-date bibliography on the subject of food and ethnicity in ancient Israel, LBA through early ...
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Simeon Chavel
mssimi
May 10, 2013 8:14 pm
A place to start is: Avi Faust, Israel's Ethnogenesis ... Simeon Chavel Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible The University of Chicago Divinity School ...
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Joe Zias
joezias
May 11, 2013 9:44 am
Start with the anthropologists and then move on, Marvin Harris is a good beginning on the questions of pork avoidance. While archaeologists have eventually...
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Yigal Levin
yigallevin
May 11, 2013 7:38 pm
Hi Stephanie, The recent issue of Archeaological Review from Cambridge (issue 28.1, April 2013), includes a paper by Mary C. Beaudry titled "Mixing Food,...
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frankclancy
May 11, 2013 11:54 pm
Dear Judith and Reinhard - thank you for the information. I have often wondered how sailing seasons affected the military ventures of the pharaohs. Frank...
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eliot braun
eliotbraun
May 12, 2013 5:37 am
Readers may be interested to read about this unsung scholar who worked on this project. The link:...
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Raz Kletter
raz.kletter
May 12, 2013 7:20 am
Nathan MacDonald- "What did the Ancient Israelites Eat" and "Not Bread alone: the Uses of Food in the Old Testament", c. 2008- Covers well biblical and...
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Peter T. Daniels
grammatim
May 12, 2013 12:40 pm
Unsung? Michael Ventris built on her work, but she died before the decipherment was accomplished. Â -- Peter T. Daniels grammatim@... ...
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Robert M Whiting
whiting35
May 12, 2013 1:29 pm
... Indeed. Anyone who has ever looked even superficially at the history of the decipherment of Linear B will realize that her work in laying the groundwork...
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Jean-Fabrice Nardelli
jnardellis36
May 12, 2013 1:30 pm
Kober is not only well-known (as much, at any rate, as such a discreet scholar who published little can get famous; see the Biographical Dictionary of North...
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Charles J
chuckjones2000
May 12, 2013 1:36 pm
See: http://www.brown.edu/Research/Breaking_Ground/bios/Kober_Alice.pdf and http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2012/08/alice-e-kober-papers-online.html ...
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eliot braun
eliotbraun
May 12, 2013 6:33 pm
There is an interesting chapter in Aphek Antipatris II on wine production in the LB period. M. Kislev and his students have written on many aspects of food...
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eliot braun
eliotbraun
May 12, 2013 6:33 pm
I apologize and stand corrected. I'm an ignoramus concerning Linear B and I tend to believe what I read in the NY Times.  Eliot Braun, Ph D Sr. Fellow WF...
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Michael F. Lane
gbarrenador
May 12, 2013 11:27 pm
Dear Peter, These citations are very useful. I'll look into Gragg's work, and I'll definitely check out Cannon, as I have a working knowledge of Arabic. With...
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Peter T. Daniels
grammatim
May 12, 2013 11:33 pm
Ms. Fox is an employee of the NY Times ... She sent an announcement of the book to the newsgroup sci.lang (to which she has never before contributed), but her...
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sbudin
maratshami
May 13, 2013 5:52 pm
VERY many thanks to everyone who replied to my query. I was quite successful today at the library, and the bibliography suggested here seems to be exactly...
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James
jdmoore57200...
May 16, 2013 9:04 am
Dear All, I am please to forward the following, and apologies for cross-postings. --James D. Moore, Brandeis University ____ I am writing to you on behalf of...
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eliot braun
eliotbraun
May 16, 2013 4:41 pm
I'm sure Ayn Rand would love this article on the purported reason for the development of early agriculture.: ...
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MarcC
marc.cooper
May 16, 2013 4:47 pm
I am sticking with the beer explanation. It makes for better lectures. Marc Cooper Missouri State University...
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Joe Zias
joezias
May 16, 2013 5:40 pm
I too have issues with his explanation. If one looks at Natufian sites in the north here in Israel today one sees  people living in settled communities sans...
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Peter T. Daniels
grammatim
May 16, 2013 6:52 pm
ISTR claims that h&g is more efficient than farming? (It takes a lot less work.) And definitely more environment-friendly? -- Peter T. Daniels...
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Ergun LAFLI
terracottas@...
May 18, 2013 9:25 am
Dear Colleagues, A new booklet of us has just appeared in Germany: S. Funfschilling/E. Lafli, Hadrianopolis II: Glasfunde des 6. und 7. Jhs. aus Hadrianupolis,...
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Trudy Kawami
corvina_9
May 21, 2013 3:31 pm
If any colleague could send me the pagination of Stephan Kroll's article in Armazd, Vol. V, pt. 1, 2010, I would greatly appreciate it. My computer ate it! (I...
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Charles E. Jones
chuckjones2000
May 21, 2013 3:43 pm
The second issue of ASOR's monthly newsletter "The Ancient Near East Today" has been distributed and is available online at: ...
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Stephen Goranson
goranson11
May 23, 2013 5:51 pm
The N.Y. Times published on May 16 an obituary for Geza Vermes. He was indeed an influential scholar who made many important contributions. One I especially...
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Wright, Jacob L
wright.jacob68
May 23, 2013 8:19 pm
Colleagues, Would anyone perchance have pics of Khirbet Qilah or its environs? Many thanks, Jacob Jacob L. Wright Emory University ...
