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ANCIENT JEW REVIEW

November 29, 2018

Week in Review (11/30/18)

by Ancient Jew Review


Announcement of the resurrection of Christ, from a C13 Peshitta Gospel | State Library of Berlin, Sachau 304, parchment manuscript 195 Bl., f.106v | Image Source

Announcement of the resurrection of Christ, from a C13 Peshitta Gospel | State Library of Berlin, Sachau 304, parchment manuscript 195 Bl., f.106v | Image Source

Announcement of the resurrection of Christ, from a C13 Peshitta Gospel | State Library of Berlin, Sachau 304, parchment manuscript 195 Bl., f.106v | Image Source

Announcement of the resurrection of Christ, from a C13 Peshitta Gospel | State Library of Berlin, Sachau 304, parchment manuscript 195 Bl., f.106v | Image Source

This week we return from break: forgery, apocrypha, disreputable professions, Syriac, material ancient religion, a liberal sprinkling of Samaritans – and more!

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November 25, 2018

Book Note | Trade and Taboo: Disreputable Professions in the Roman Mediterranean

by Alexander D. Perkins in Book Notes


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In fact, Bond argues, it is in part because of the indispensability of these professions that they were so stigmatized. The lowbrow, servile nature of these labors disqualified members of the elite from practicing them, but the dependency of civic institutions and day-to-day well-being upon them brought great wealth and power to those within the trade.

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November 16, 2018

Week in Review (11/16/2018)

by Ancient Jew Review


English Hebrew Psalter, open at Ps. 6:7-9:19, with extensive French and Latin annotation | MS. Bodl. Or. 621, f.2b, early thirteenth-century | Image Source

English Hebrew Psalter, open at Ps. 6:7-9:19, with extensive French and Latin annotation | MS. Bodl. Or. 621, f.2b, early thirteenth-century | Image Source

English Hebrew Psalter, open at Ps. 6:7-9:19, with extensive French and Latin annotation | MS. Bodl. Or. 621, f.2b, early thirteenth-century | Image Source

English Hebrew Psalter, open at Ps. 6:7-9:19, with extensive French and Latin annotation | MS. Bodl. Or. 621, f.2b, early thirteenth-century | Image Source

This Week: The resurrection, Bulgarian Byzantium, the Jewish Bible, Gospel books (or not), open access digital tools - and more!

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November 13, 2018

Gospels Before the Book

by Matthew Larsen in Articles


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Ignoring, or at least unaware of, the disjointed discourses about gospel textuality and authorship within the first centuries of the Common Era, modern historians of ancient Christianity speak about first century gospel texts in ways unknown in the first and second century discourses about the gospel. 

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TAGS: publications


November 12, 2018

Book Note | Resurrection of the Dead in Early Judaism

by Karen Connor McGugan in Book Notes


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“As Elledge’s book capably demonstrates, it is the diversity, complexity and adaptability of resurrection belief—the very attributes that make it so difficult for scholars to pin down—that characterized and facilitated its growth in early Jewish thought.”

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November 8, 2018

Week in Review (11/10/2018)

by Ancient Jew Review


So-called “carpet” page from the Burgos Bible | Dated 1260, from Burgos in Spain | Image Source

So-called “carpet” page from the Burgos Bible | Dated 1260, from Burgos in Spain | Image Source

So-called “carpet” page from the Burgos Bible | Dated 1260, from Burgos in Spain | Image Source

So-called “carpet” page from the Burgos Bible | Dated 1260, from Burgos in Spain | Image Source

This Week: Dissertation spotlight on the rabbinic bible, Pauline gift exchange, the Arabic Bible, tools for Hebrew, Bodmer papyri online, Judeo-Persian, piyyutim – and more!

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November 7, 2018

Dissertation Spotlight | Daniel Picus

by Daniel Picus in Articles


Julius Fehr (German, 1860-1900) “A Rabbi scholar in his study”

Julius Fehr (German, 1860-1900) “A Rabbi scholar in his study”

Julius Fehr (German, 1860-1900) “A Rabbi scholar in his study”

Julius Fehr (German, 1860-1900) “A Rabbi scholar in his study”

“I argue that that the rabbis are deeply concerned with the form, format, and divisions of the biblical text, and that these aspects of the text have a crucial role in rabbinic understandings of the formation and transformation of the reader.”

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TAGS: dissertation


November 5, 2018

Book Note | A Spiritual Economy: Gift Exchange in the Letters of Paul of Tarsus

by Jennifer Quigley in Book Notes


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A Spiritual Economy is a helpful addition to recent studies in gifts in the letters of Paul, and its multidisciplinary engagement contributes to the study of religion in antiquity and to broader conversations in history, sociology, and anthropology about gift exchange.

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November 1, 2018

Week in Review (11/2/18)

by Ancient Jew Review


Sixth/seventh-century incantation bowl with Aramaic inscription | From Nippur, currently in the Met Collection L1999.83.3 | Image Source

Sixth/seventh-century incantation bowl with Aramaic inscription | From Nippur, currently in the Met Collection L1999.83.3 | Image Source

Sixth/seventh-century incantation bowl with Aramaic inscription | From Nippur, currently in the Met Collection L1999.83.3 | Image Source

Sixth/seventh-century incantation bowl with Aramaic inscription | From Nippur, currently in the Met Collection L1999.83.3 | Image Source

This Week: Responses to anti-Semitism, forged scrolls, Constantine’s daughter, commemoration in Roman Syria, Antioch through time, a menagerie of ancient fauna – and more!

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October 30, 2018

Book Note | The Archaeology of Death in Roman Syria: Burial, Commemoration, and Empire

by Dina Boero in Book Notes


Tower Tombs located in Palmyra, Syria (Wikimedia Commons)

Tower Tombs located in Palmyra, Syria (Wikimedia Commons)

Tower Tombs located in Palmyra, Syria (Wikimedia Commons)

Tower Tombs located in Palmyra, Syria (Wikimedia Commons)

Whereas most archaeologists of Roman Syria focus on discrete regions, de Jong is the first to undertake a systematic study of burials from across the province. 

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October 26, 2018

Week in Review (10/27/18)

by Ancient Jew Review


The basalt Tel Dan stele, C9-C8BCE | On display at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem | Image Source

The basalt Tel Dan stele, C9-C8BCE | On display at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem | Image Source

The basalt Tel Dan stele, C9-C8BCE | On display at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem | Image Source

The basalt Tel Dan stele, C9-C8BCE | On display at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem | Image Source

This Week: Ancient Jewish identity, Ioudaios in John, a crash-course in angels, assassins, Holy Land photography, collaborative apocrypha – and more!

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October 24, 2018

Ancient Jewish Identity

by David Goodblatt in Articles


Ivory casket that illustrated Joshua’s conquest of the Promised Land, 900–1000 CE. At the Metropolitan Museum of New York.

Ivory casket that illustrated Joshua’s conquest of the Promised Land, 900–1000 CE. At the Metropolitan Museum of New York.

Ivory casket that illustrated Joshua’s conquest of the Promised Land, 900–1000 CE. At the Metropolitan Museum of New York.

Ivory casket that illustrated Joshua’s conquest of the Promised Land, 900–1000 CE. At the Metropolitan Museum of New York.

“In Judaism, as we saw, a bad Jew was still a Jew.  The belief in shared ancestry was the anchor that permitted some to drift without breaking loose.”

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TAGS: essays


October 21, 2018

Book Note | Exegeting the Jews: The Early Reception of the Johannine “Jews”

by Janelle Peters in Book Notes


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But decoding slanderous language is not just a complicated task for modern scholars; the Gospel of John’s earliest interpreters also chewed over the anti-Jewish language in the text. In Exegeting the Jews, Michael Azar examines the earliest reception of John’s anti-Jewish language.

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October 18, 2018

Week in Review (10/19/2018)

by Ancient Jew Review


Mosaic of a philosopher sitting on a rock | Likely sixth century, currently housed in the Great Palace Mosaic Museum, Istanbul | Image Source

Mosaic of a philosopher sitting on a rock | Likely sixth century, currently housed in the Great Palace Mosaic Museum, Istanbul | Image Source

Mosaic of a philosopher sitting on a rock | Likely sixth century, currently housed in the Great Palace Mosaic Museum, Istanbul | Image Source

Mosaic of a philosopher sitting on a rock | Likely sixth century, currently housed in the Great Palace Mosaic Museum, Istanbul | Image Source

This Week: Full-body resurrection, rhetorician rabbis, invented Christianity, computational digital humanities, heaps of ancient pots, even more apocrypha - and more!

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October 16, 2018

Resurrection: Why, how, and for whom?

by Thomas McGlothlin in Articles


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By shifting away from the relationship between resurrection and embodiment, I read “behind” or at least “around” the flashpoints surrounding the nature of the resurrected body.

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TAGS: publications


October 15, 2018

Book Note | Rabbis and Classical Rhetoric: Sophistic Education and Oratory in the Talmud and Midrash

by Michael Rosenberg in Book Notes


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“Whether they received these forms from Cicero or came to them independently, the fact that the rabbis are not alone in producing these forms makes clear that the strategy is effective, and Hidary’s rhetorical analyses ably show what that strategy is. A literary work need not be efficient or conclusive to be persuasive.”

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October 11, 2018

Week in Review (10/12/2018)

by Ancient Jew Review


Solidus of Constantine I (326CE, Rome) | Exhibited in the Bode-Museum, Berlin | Image Source

Solidus of Constantine I (326CE, Rome) | Exhibited in the Bode-Museum, Berlin | Image Source

Solidus of Constantine I (326CE, Rome) | Exhibited in the Bode-Museum, Berlin | Image Source

Solidus of Constantine I (326CE, Rome) | Exhibited in the Bode-Museum, Berlin | Image Source

This Week: Double book notes, Constantine and miracles, even *more* noncanonical scriptures, manuscripts everywhere, the Nubian Tomb of Peniut – and more!

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October 10, 2018

Book Note | Not All Dead White Men

by Sarah Bond in Book Notes


Sarah Bond reviews Donna Zuckerberg’s Not All Dead White Men: “A new generation of classicists, archaeologists, and premodern historians have begun to realize that an insulated approach to scholarship is itself a form of privileged monasticism that we can no longer retreat to. In Not All Dead White Men, Zuckerberg looks into the crevices of the internet and into academia with a jussive command: “Fiat lux” (Let there be light). It is up to us to keep the lights on.”

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October 8, 2018

Book Note | A Century of Miracles: Christians, Pagans, Jews, and the Supernatural, 312-410

by Peter Z. Fraser-Morris in Book Notes


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Framing his book with the two great miracles of Constantine and Theodosius, Drake attempts to tease out exactly how this discourse functioned in late antiquity, especially for Christians.

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October 4, 2018

Week in Review (10/5/18)

by Ancient Jew Review


Hieroglyphic spolia | White Monastery (ⲡⲓⲙⲟⲛⲁⲥⲧⲏⲣⲓⲟⲛ ⲟⲩⲱⲃϣ), near Upper Egyptian Sohag | Image Source

Hieroglyphic spolia | White Monastery (ⲡⲓⲙⲟⲛⲁⲥⲧⲏⲣⲓⲟⲛ ⲟⲩⲱⲃϣ), near Upper Egyptian Sohag | Image Source

Hieroglyphic spolia | White Monastery (ⲡⲓⲙⲟⲛⲁⲥⲧⲏⲣⲓⲟⲛ ⲟⲩⲱⲃϣ), near Upper Egyptian Sohag | Image Source

Hieroglyphic spolia | White Monastery (ⲡⲓⲙⲟⲛⲁⲥⲧⲏⲣⲓⲟⲛ ⲟⲩⲱⲃϣ), near Upper Egyptian Sohag | Image Source

This Week: Monastic philosophy of mind, damnatio memoriae, Gnosticism, Herculaneum scrolls, DIY iron gall ink, bonus hieroglyphic spolia – and more!

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