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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW

August 21, 2015

The Week in Review (August 20th)

by Ancient Jew Review in Weekly Roundup


The Judean date palm "Methuselah", grown from first century seeds.

NEWS AND ARTICLES

  • The Lost Library of Herculaneum (and its potential to change our understanding of Latin literature).  HT to Paleojudaica
  • Review of Sylvie Honigman's Tales of High Priests and Taxes: The Books of the Maccabees and the Judean Rebellion against Antiochos IV at BMCR. HT to Paleojudaica.
  • The extinct Judean date palm has been revived in Israel.  More on the tree from the Arava institute.
  • Larry Hurtado on the readers of Early Christian Apocrypha. 
  • Ken Penner's new database for verbs in the Dead Sea Scrolls.
  • Sad news about Syrian archaeologist Khaled al-Asaad, killed by ISIS in Palmyra. 
  • How to bake Ancient Roman Bread (video).

ON AJR

  • Adam McCollum surveys the field of Judeo-Persian language and literature. 

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