Come join us and dig at Megiddo (biblical Armageddon) during the summer of 2010. Click on the following for much more information and application forms....
Dear all, I am glad to announce the publication of the following article in the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures (http://www.jhsonline.org) Journal of Hebrew...
DIRECTOR OF PUBLICATIONS (http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/about/position#Publications) Director of Publications, American School of Classical Studies,...
Maybe I'm confused and have my information wrong, but why is this discovery consistently being called the "oldest synagogue"? In my understanding it may be the...
Raymond Westbrook (1946-2009) was acknowledged by many as the world's foremost expert on the legal systems of the ancient Near East and a leading scholar in...
The Centro de Estudios de Historia del Antiguo Oriente (CEHAO), Universidad Católica Argentina, announces the publication of Damqatum - The CEHAO Newsletter,...
Joe's written an essay in reply to Aren Maeir's earlier entry and it's uploaded here http://www.archive.org/download/Qumrangate_538/qumrangate.pdf -- ++++++ ...
People like Joe Zias, Eric Cline, Jim West are getting very concerned about the poor quality of some recent TV screenings. How to deal with it is as real...
Recent links in AWOL - The Ancient World Online include Open access Journals Antiquity Bulletin Dialogues d'histoire ancienne Indian Archaeology - A Review ...
Dear Listmembers, I thought you might like to know that Ariel, a long time correspondent to this list, sadly passed away last Saturday. Beatrice Hopkinson ...
2009-2010 Lecture Series "THE EGYPTIAN POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF SECRETS "A Study of the Middle Kingdom Ceramic Assemblage at North Abydos" Speaker: Dr. Kei...
A non-ANE-connected friend sent me this link to a review of two books, one authored and the other edited by James Cuno, from a May 2009 issue of the New York...
Jim West's essay (Bible and Interpretation http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/stalemate_31419.shtml) is to the point that something must be done as the...
Greetings, All, I have recently come across some non-scholastic references to a supposedly Sumerian beer goddess names Siris. The name and association seem to...
There is a news item about the EB excavations at Beit Yerah, including mention of a rare figurine found this season. For the article in English, but without...
The Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities - Toronto Chapter Lecture Series 2009-2010 The Egyptian Potter and the Goblet of Secrets: A Study of the...
James Barfield, whose Copper Scroll claims have been critiqued by Robert Cargill, has posted two new videos. Barfield claims to reveal the first five locations...
The Bible says that Nehemiah was the cupbearer to Artaxerxes I. The cupbearer was equivalent to the prime minister and was in the highest non-royality court...
I would like to know the oldest love poem, romantic poem - nothing salacious please. Hope someone might be able to help. Also an English translation would...
Does anyone know anything more of a supposedly proto-Sinaitic inscription in a rock in the region of Timna, Negev, Israel? This is the link to a photo: ...
The attacks on Jim Barfield and Vendyl Jones in relation to the Copper Scroll are valid attacks on indefensible and unprovable claims. However, Robert Cargill...
Memory and Identity Working Group "Monuments of resistance: Gurgum and the Assyrian conquest" Dr. Lynn Swartz Dodd, University of Southern California September...
If the moderators don't mind, I'd like to remind you folks that we'll have an online colloquium with Don Benjamin, author of the newly published Stones and...
At present I'm working on something dealing with animal husbandry and realized that the Hebrew/Aramaic word for St. Peters fish is mother-nurse/fish as the...
