Via the delightful blog of Aren Maeir, http://gath.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/schimmel-award-to-ami-mazar/ Congratulations to Ami Mazar! -- Jim West, ThD ...
Job Announcement Persepolis Fortification Archives Research Project Professionals The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago seeks to appoint two new...
It appears not only that all that can be said on the question of the existence of Nazareth has been said , but that the proponents of the two sides of the...
Story Link: Five U-M professors receive prestigious Guggenheim Fellowships http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=3254 Five U-M professors...
Dear ANErs, I have seen on the Internet that cuneiform texts dating to the Late Bronze Age have been discovered at Tell Barri/Kahat during the excavations of...
The Jerusalem Post has a nice essay about the way some scholars involved in the documentary are changing their tune (or more precisely, are disputing the tunes...
Bagatti himself admits: "we have met with only few traces of the Hellenistic period" (Exc. 319). A close study of his writings reveals only a few specific...
First announcement MEETING IN HONOUR OF PROF. PATRICIA SMITH DATE: April 19 2007 - Thursday VANUE: Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ein...
... I hope that such views will soon be obsolete for, with the new information now emerging, they are no longer defensible. The evidence, which is clear if one...
Dear Colleagues, The Israel Society for Assyriology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies is deeply saddened by the death of our senior colleague and one of our ...
Listers in the region of Washington University in St Louis may be interested in this public lecture. http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/9217.html Jim ...
According to Stanislao Loffredo, Holy Land Pottery at the Time of Jesus, Franciscan Printing Press, Jerusalem, 2002, Herodian bow spouted lamps were found...
... "Starting in 2005, the Oriental Institute is committed to digitizing all of its publications and making them available online, without charge. The minimum...
Astute observers may well have already seen that the folllowing recent books appeared online, free-of-charge, late last week at the Oriental Institute website ...
As Dr. James Tabor has mentioned at his blog, a lot of misinformation has been spread online about the Talpiot tomb by detractors of the "Lost Tomb" film....
The book by SJ and the BAR Crowd went the way of the Titantic and disappeared from the NY Times best sellers list today. A classical case of "pump and dump",...
Dear Peter (and any one else who is interested), This description of Breasted is not the product of the University of Chicago's News and Information office....
Bob Whiting wrote: Third, Autran's book was written in 1920. Its hypothesis is that the Phoenicians and the Canaanites were not actually Semites but were ...
I have just received my copy of the inexpensive SBL reprint (2006) of Edzard's _Sumerian Grammar_ (Brill, 2003), and I find that the bibliography is full of...
I have read the book, The Jesus Family Tomb: The Discovery, the Investigation, and the Evidence that Could Change History; I think it is a misleading book and...
I have hesitated to reply to this since certain inflamatory remarks contained in it create a potential for this to degrade into a "food fight." I do feel,...
Dear Colleagues, I am forwarding this email from our newest Society; a branch of the AIA. You are all invited to enroll in another opportunity to develop...
Trudy, I had checked the website and found they were using 'broad' dates, since this list is well informed I thought I'd check specifically for Syria. I'd like...
Dear all, I have been following the highlighted discussion about this and I have to give my meager contribution; in a weekly publication yesterday it is...
Via Jack Sasson- The Renewed Excavation at Tel Dor is pleased to announce the online report from the 2006 excavation season and details of the Wendy J. ...
... From: ANE-2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ANE-2@yahoogroups.com] Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 9:31 AM To: victor Subject: Re: RE: [ANE-2] Re: Mesopotamia and...
Dear all, ... I am interested in how accurate the above statement is, and am also curious regarding how well is the Ebla archive now published? I see there is...
Listers may find this report to be of interest: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=nw20070403134940540C463643 -- Jim West, ThD ...
