Dear List Members, Hi!!! I was wondering if any of you have studied the ideas of a judgment day and a rapture being taught in the Bible. I have a good Muslim...
Forwarded with the permission of Jim West and Randall Buth. No cropping because the responses are interspersed. James ________________________________ James...
I have Timothy Ware's The Orthodox Church. Looking for any other highly recommended English language overviews and introductions to the Eastern Orthodox...
"Writing the Dead Sea Scrolls" shown on National Geographic channel is available on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQIb13roRYA The show gives rise to...
In the 1980s, the American literary critic and scholar Robert Alter began publishing original studies of the Hebrew Bible that yielded, among other books, The...
With apologies for the cross-posting: Yes, this is it; the sale you've been waiting for. Eisenbrauns is pleased to announce our third annual "SBL in October"...
Anyone willing to recommend their "top three" picks for thorough treatment of the Holy Spirit? Respectfully, Stephen C. Lord [Non-text portions of this message...
This is just to inform that KUSATU vol. 11 / 2010 is already available: KUSATU 11/2010 Kleine Untersuchungen zur Sprache des Alten Testaments und seiner Umwelt...
This may be of interest to some members: Yigal Levin **************************************************************************** **** The Ariel University...
With apologies for the cross-posting. Eisenbrauns continues our back-to-school sale with Aramaic and Syriac reference works. Save 15-50% on selected Aramaic...
I'm tracking the adoption of 'ethnicity' terminology in scholarship on early Judaism and early Christianity. The earliest occurrences of 'ethnic' I've found so...
Prof. Miller, You might look at the article "Rethinking the Relevance of Race for Early Christian Self-Definition" by Denise Kimber Buell, in Harvard...
"Researchers of the National Laboratories of the South (LNS) in Catania of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN, Italy's National Institute for...
With apologies for the cross-posting: For the month of July, Eisenbrauns is featuring selected Harrassowitz titles at 20% off retail. Choose from ICAANE...
Could someone tell me where Wittgenstein uses the concept of "family resemblance"? (It's relevant to genre theory and something Childs said a few times). ...
With apologies for cross-posting and strongest apologies for the lateness of this email (I've just joined this group and the announcement arrived this morning....
Does anyone on the list have access to volume 5 of Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie (ed. Ebeling and Meissner)? If so, I'd be...
Last September, Azusa Pacific University announced their acquisition of 5 small fragments of Dead Sea Scrolls: http://www.apu.edu/media/news/release/14307/ ...
The Qumran Cave 11 manuscripts--remains of a Zealot library? Such is the proposal in Pfann, Stephen J. "Reassessing the Judean Desert Caves: Libraries,...
According to this Jewish Encyclopedia article<http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=18&letter=S&search=sabbatical%20year> , The Samaritans in their...
The archaeological site of Ketef Hinnom currently lies hidden behind the Menahem Begin Heritage Center's courtyard. The site is not marked and it is filled...
With apologies for the cross-posting. Stock up on summer reading at a great price! As the school year winds down, we'd like to offer you a chance to pick up...
1) Y. Magen and Y. Peleg proposed that Qumran was a pottery export site and said clay in pool 71 was used. Samples of that clay have now been analysed, and...
Jewish Ideas Daily has posted an obituary of Hanan Eshel, describing him as someone who "synthesized a broad knowledge of classical Jewish texts with rich...
The current issue of BAR magazine contains an intriguing discussion between Hershel Shanks & Israel Finkelstein: http://tinyurl.com/26wv3vn Near the end, Prof....
I'm reading the significant new contribution to learning, The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Full History, vol, 1 1947-1960 (Brill, 2010) and find it fascinating.I...
In stark contrast to the norms of the Ancient Near East, biblical tradition repudiated ceremonies which glorified blood. The verse in Leviticus 17:14 which...
