Dear Bob, Since you worked on the volume, could you answer the following questions stimulated by a read through the introduction: 1) What does "The overall...
Iraqi Libraries and Archives in Peril: Survival in a time of Invasion, Chaos, and Civil Conflict, A Report. 2007, by Jeff Spurr. Summary: "Excerpt from the...
Dear all, This is just to let you know that the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures (http://www.jhsonline.org <http://www.jhsonline.org/> ) has recently published the...
The situation is appalling, but far from a new one. May I recommend chapter VII, The complaint of books against wars, in The 'Philobiblon' of Richard de Bury,...
Dear Joe and others, Joe wrote on Monday, Nov. 26th: "...I and many other colleagues used to take tourists as a tour guide to the City of David excavations to...
Collecting sherds or what is also known as 'sherding' has been illegal ever since I can remember as surface surveys are an important part of the profession. In...
Although at present this is against the Israeli antiquities law, I for one would be very happy if licensed archaeological excavations were permitted by law to...
... Joe Zias My house is built on land that was settled by Dutch colonists in the 17th century CE. For years my wife has been telling me that in the spring...
Dear all, According to Tropper (1994) "Die Ugaritische Konsonanteninventar." Journal of North-west Semitic Languages 20/2, pp. 31-33, the Ugaritic s was...
Dear all, I would like to invite you all to a new discussion list that I created -- Canaanite! This discussion list will concentrate on the Canaanite family ...
See his big grammar pp. 102-104, 40-50. He follows the new view (due to Alice Faber) that PSem *s was [ts]; he claims that during the attested lifetime of...
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Clearly, one must revisit sites every few years if you want to start understanding it. Experienced archaeological surveyers know that to get a good "sherding...
Oriental Institute Job Posting: Post-Doctoral Scholar The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago invites applications for the Oriental Institute's...
Greetings, All! I'm not sure if this has been posted before, but it is very well worth a look. http://www.religionswissenschaft.unizh.ch/idd/ All Best Regards,...
If anyone here has access to the online edition of New Testament Studies and is willing to down load some articles for me, I'd be grateful to receive the...
"Sherding" or any removal of antiquities from sites should never be done by anyone unless she or he is licensed to do so and unless there is an archaeological...
... Which reminds me to remind you all of: Robert McCormick Adams: Land Behind Baghdad http://www.etana.org/abzu/coretext.pl?RC=20303 Robert McCormick Adams:...
Thank you very much for the useful information. Might I ask - in case you know - why hasn't this view found support? Best regards, Miguel Valério ... to Alice...
The usual supposition regarding {s3} is that it was devised for writing some Hurrian sibilant that doesn't occur in Semitic. Tropper doesn't seem to address...
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In Newsweek- with thanks to Antonio Lombatti for seeing it first. http://www.newsweek.com/id/72494 Jim -- Jim West, ThD http://drjewest.googlepages.com/ --...
In recent weeks I have widely cross-posted lists of important recent material added to ETANA core texts. I encourage those of you who are interested in keeping...
There's a lot of truth in this article as to how archaeology in Jerusalem is highly politicized, unlike the rest of the country. Unfortunately, the situation...
... What is untrue is the comparison between archaeological digs and the "dig" on the Temple Mount. At least Mazar carefully recorded everything she did, in a...
It strikes me that the contents of the article on the Shalem center don't precisely comport with objectivity. I realize that Haaretz is a left-wing paper, but...
Dear all, In the 1960s, Pelio Fronzaroli published in Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei a series of studies on common Semitic lexicon, arranged by...
I believe that somewhere I once saw a statement that only one installment of Fronzaroli's series remained unfinished (it might be in the last published one)....
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There are also the two volumes from Ugarit Verlag by Militarev and Kogan, AOAT 278/1 (2000) & AOAT 278/2 (2005), Semitic Etymological Dictionary. HTH, James ...
