Recently I suggested Socoh for Qeifaya (because it was a good 'lookout'); yesterday it was Gob (Nadav Na`aman); today the bidding ceases. Yosef Garfinkel has...
With the annual SBL meeting, as well as the marking of exams and term papers, I have only just today begun to read a backlog of listserv digests. I came...
A member of the list has been giving me good stimulation on my interpretation of the inscription on the Megiddo signet ring as West Semitic logo-syllabic...
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PART 2 Answers to some questions and responses I have received. Note that Part 1 is appended for reference. Regarding the letters on the left-side column (see...
Dear all, I am glad to announce that the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures (http://www.jhsonline.org) has recently published the following articles: Journal of...
I propose to use a resurrected inscription from the turquoise mines in Sinai to show that it is possible to read these proto-alphabetic texts (wilfully,...
I am looking for a well-researched image of feasting in a triclinium. The closest thing to what I am looking for that I have found so far appears to be in...
In response to Peter Daniels: I think you would not have seen my response entitled "PC & PS" when you sent this. Siehe unten! From: Ariel L. Szczupak...
(What ever happened to the notion of renaming threads when they wander to a new topic?) Overnight (from the Eastern Standard Time perspective) quite a heated...
See now my Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus: Hellenistic Histories and the Date of the Exodus, 34-71. Chapter 3 is devoted to the fragment commonly...
Hi all In June 2006, i forwarded to the list some info about the alleged discovery of some egyptian hierogliphs in a controlled excavation in northern Spain,...
I had sent a request to delete the previous post about Solomon and all his wives within about twenty minutes after sending it. Evidently this message was...
There is no "correct" spelling of the name. Gelb, Hurrians and Subarians, has a footnote collecting spellings of it showing sometimes the t, sometimes the n,...
Call for paper: "Natural Language Processing for Ancient Languages" Guest editors: Joseph Denooz and Serge Rosmorduc The TAL journal launches a call for papers...
Is viewable online in its entirety here http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bible/program.html jim -- ++++++ Jim West, ThD http://jwest.wordpress.com - Blog ...
In the resources I have in my vast home library I cannot find a West Semitic word for 'turquoise'. Nor can I see such a word in the Sinai proto-alphabetic...
As I said a moment ago: "We now learn from San Francisco that 10 of the 50 letters on the ostracon have faded away, and it is going to be put into Cedars Sinai...
With apologies for cross posting. This is the second notice of the 12th annual E-Lister's gathering at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature...
Stories on the stele from Zincirli discovered this past season by the Neubauer Expedition of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago are beginning...
While guesses abound about the nature of the discovered ostracon, the Qeiyafa excavation team has posted the chronicle. It appears from the chronicle that...
Dear friends, I am very glad to announce that JHS (http:///www.jhsonline.org) has just added a beta-hypertext version to all the articles and reviews from...
Its only a modest press release, but listers may be interested in reading our press release describing the results of the 2008 excavation season at Gezer,...
There is a short news story and photo series about Phoenician Burial jars recently unearthed at Tyre at the following link: Ancient Phoenician Burial Jars -...
Dorushe Annual Graduate Student Conference on Syriac Studies Yale University March 29, 2009 Meeting description: The Department of Near Eastern Languages and...
