On AJR
New Dissertation Spotlight! James Walters on Aphrahat's Syriac Demonstrations.
"Thus, the Demonstrations are not a historical artifact of the Christian community of fourth-century Persia seeking to establish itself against the established Jewish community; rather, they attest to the discursive efforts of one author to shape the reality of his Christian community by offering a rhetorically constructed image of the Jews as a negative example."
Articles and News
- New issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review, including a review forum of Bavli scholarship (including Robert Brody, Shai Secunda, Richard Kalmin, and AJR's own Simcha Gross) and "The “Evil Inclination” of the Jews: The Syriac Yatsra in Narsai’s Metrical Homilies for Lent" by Adam Becker.
- "UCLA to offer digital images of rare ancient manuscripts in Egypt."
- "NEH Summer Institute on Problems in the Study of Religion (pt. 3)" by Sarah E. Rollens via Marginalia.
- "Nineveh as Sin City" by Thomas Bolin via Bible Odyssey.
- "Directions in Jewish Feminist Bible Study" by Yael Shemesh via Currents in Biblical Research.
- "The Second Temple" by Lawrence Schiffman via Bible Odyssey.
- Women Scholars in Ancient History map by Sarah Bond.
- "The Jesus’s Wife Fragment: End of Story?" by Roberta Mazza.
- “Fakes, Forgeries, and Fictions” Preview: Caroline Schroeder’s “Gender and the Academy Online”
Just happened upon this handy resource = online list of abbrev for ancient text titles in #SBL Handbook of Style https://t.co/KLnjfW8zR9
— Annette Yoshiko Reed (@AnnetteYReed) June 22, 2016
300 pages! Now that's a journal issue. @JHUPress pic.twitter.com/jKdxOczaaN
— Matt McAdam (@mxmcadam) June 20, 2016
#papyri exhibit, OeNB https://t.co/6ogW2olQaA @SusanLlewellyn Greek hymn & Arabic tax list @dan_a_lowe @SultanofOman pic.twitter.com/FmufKtVYv0
— EncyclopaediaIranica (@iranicaonline) June 21, 2016
Schedule shaping up for next #PSCO! 10/13 @EvaMroczek, 2/23 @eshetbaalathaov, 3/30 @WendyLBelcher, TBA @NyashaJunior pic.twitter.com/QT3wbwYHoZ
— Annette Yoshiko Reed (@AnnetteYReed) June 23, 2016
Ah, that new book smell! Even more lovely & purple in person than I imagined. Thanks, @ucpress! pic.twitter.com/TuaBdPedab
— Andrew (((Jacobs))) (@drewjakeprof) June 24, 2016
"Here lies Ammias, a Jew from Laodicea, who lived 85 years. Shalom!" @museiincomune pic.twitter.com/FE2dSwyAoR
— Sarah Bond (@SarahEBond) June 24, 2016
Image attribution: Workshop of the Bedford Master (French, active first half of 15th century)
The Presentation in the Temple, about 1440 - 1450, Tempera colors, gold leaf, gold paint, and ink on parchment. Leaf: 23.5 x 16.4 cm (9 1/4 x 6 7/16 in.)
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Open Content.
