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GOOD SBL 2009 CONFERENCE. The best part is always catching up with the people, although this year the food gave them some competition. I lived in New Orleans for a few years a long time ago and on this trip I made sure to visit some of my favorite...
THE INVENTION OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE by Shlomo Sand is reviewed by Patricia Cohen in the NYT. Excerpt:Despite the fragmented and incomplete historical record, experts pretty much agree that some popular beliefs about Jewish history simply don’t hold...
AN ARABIC TRANSLATION of a book on the Dead Sea Scrolls:Yarmouk University DSS dss@yu.edu.jo:
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The Jordanian Dead Scrolls Project and the Publications Office of the Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology/Yarmouk...
ENOCH SEMINAR NEWS: There are three new initiatives of the Enoch Seminar in the works.
1. 4 Enoch: The Online Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism Research.The Encyclopedia aims to offer a comprehensive introduction to scholarly research in Second...