Category Archives: Research

Read the Dead Sea Scrolls online

From the website of the Israel Museum: The Israel Museum welcomes you to the Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Project, allowing users to examine and explore these most ancient manuscripts from Second Temple times at a level of detail never before … Continue reading

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Lectures at the Palestine Exploration Fund, London

If you’re in London during the next few months, you may find the following lectures interesting: The Palestine Exploration Fund: Forthcoming Lectures 06 October 2011 The Petra Effect: Archaeology and Psychical Research at George Horsfield and Agnes Conway’s Excavations 10 November … Continue reading

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News of Biblical Turkey

Mark Wilson sends word from Turkey that the Spring 2011 issue of the Asia Minor Report is available. You can read it here: Asia Minor Report 11 or subscribe by contacting Mark at: markwilson@sevenchurches.org. Of particular interest is his review of Wall Painting … Continue reading

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Building the Second Temple

Zeev Lewy published an interesting article about the use of stone from Solomon’s Quarries during the building of Herod’s Temple. These underground quarries are located near the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem. At the conclusion of his article he wrote: Subsurface … Continue reading

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Volume on The Temple in Jerusalem in honour of Prof. Louis Feldman now out

The Temple of Jerusalem: From Moses to the Messiah: Studies in Honor of Professor Louis H. Feldman (Brill Reference Library of Judaism) [Hardcover] On the weekend of May 11 – 12, 2008, I attended a conference at the Yeshiva University, New … Continue reading

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Dr. Leen Ritmeyer interview today on the LandMinds show – update

Update: You can listen to the interview here: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/2869 From Joe Lauer: Barnea Levi Selavan informs us that the 5:30 pm (10:30 am NY time) second segment of today’s LandMinds show will feature an interview with Dr. Leen Ritmeyer, who is well-known for his … Continue reading

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Epigraphy and Daily Life – Conference in Memory of Hanan Eshel

From the Agade list: “See, I will bring a scroll recounting what befell me” (Ps 40:8) The Second International Conference of the Jeselsohn Epigraphic Center of Jewish History, Epigraphy and Daily Life – From the Bible to the Talmud, is … Continue reading

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Middle Bronze Age Study Group meeting

If you are in Israel and interested in the Middle Bronze Age, you wouldn’t want to miss this conference: Below is the program for the upcoming Middle Bronze Age Study Group, which will be held on December 23rd, 2010, at … Continue reading

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More on Solomon’s Mines

This report was in the San Diego news a couple of days ago: Thomas Levy, a UCSD professor of anthropology and Judaic studies, has pioneered three highly sophisticated digging excavations in an area called Khirbat en-Nahas, located in southern Jordan, … Continue reading

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The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Daily Life in Roman Palestine

This must be required reading: The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Daily Life in Roman Palestine Edited by Catherine Hezser Written by an international and interdisciplinary team of distinguished scholars, The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Daily Life in Roman Palestine is … Continue reading

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