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A biblical bazaar.(two discoveries of possible biblical significance raise questions about regulation of the antiquities trade)
; ...artifacts of breathtaking biblical importance turned...Israel's lucrative antiquities market rather than...Archaeologists, biblical scholars, and other...over the trade in biblical antiquities, conducted by private...modern forger. A new book and television documentary...Shanks, ...
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A Day of Gladness: The Sabbath among Jews and Christians in Antiquity.(Biblical and Rabbinic Literature)
; ...in Antiquity, by Herold Weiss. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003. 262 pp. $39.95. ISBN 1-57003-468-0. In this book, Herold Weiss compares the ways in which Christians and Jews of antiquity viewed the Sabbath. Rather than attending to the minutiae...
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Opening the Sealed Book: Interpretations of the Book of Isaiah in Late Antiquity
; ...BLENKINSOPP, Opening the Sealed Book: Interpretations of the Book of Isaiah in Late Antiquity...analysis, contemporary biblical scholars have opened...the formation of the Book of Isaiah through interpreters...Isaiah's status as a "book," concluding that it...
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Jewish Slavery in Antiquity.(Book review)
; ...is an outstanding book: wide-ranging, thorough...slavery among Jews from biblical times through to...To be sure, the book is as much, perhaps...upper-class authors (biblical authors, the writer...Qumran had slaves. The book is well written...final section of the book, Hezser has a ...
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Jewish Marriage in Antiquity.(Book Review)
; ...431 pp. $55.00. With this book, the title of which is succinct...in antiquity, ranging from biblical texts to rabbinic texts and...treated most thoroughly in this book, while Second Temple literature...central questions of the book is the question how Jewish...of the great merits of the ...
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Josephus on Jesus: the Testimonium Flavianum Controversy from Late Antiquity to Modern Times.(Book review)
; ...Whealey. Studies in Biblical Literature 36. New York...last comment in this book is, ... after four hundred...first quoted outside of Antiquities 18 in the writings of...chief interest in this book for many. Where else...context of this section of Antiquities 18 (pp. 129 ff). The...
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The Memory of the Eyes: Pilgrims to Living Saints in Christian Late Antiquity. (Book Reviews And Notes).
; ...connected them to a biblical past, as they were interested...Frank in her recent book, The Memory of the Eyes...recurring themes--exoticism, biblical realism, and sensory...organizational basis of her book, with the second and...divine and linked to the biblical past and concludes ...
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Opening the Sealed Book: Interpretations of the Book of Isaiah in Late Antiquity.(Book review)
; ...Here B. explores three models of Isaiah drawn from the book itself: (1) the prophet who announces judgment as God...apocalyptic seer, given Isaiah's heavy influence on the Book of Daniel, the Qumran sectarians, and the earliest Palestinian...penitent remnant that survives the Exile, and the sealed book ...
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Icons of Power: Ritual Practices in Late Antiquity.(Book Review)
; ...pp. $45.00 cloth. The latest book by Naomi Janowitz surveys a...activity in late antiquity. The book sidesteps the religion versus...deals with the development of biblical notions about the name of God...The chapter then analyzes the Book of Creation, which understands...Chapter 6 examines the ...
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Book to Open Access to Dead Sea Scrolls; Biblical Society Will Issue Facsimile Edition of Unpublished Texts
; ...flourish, a dissident band of biblical researchers has brought...Jordan four decades ago. The Biblical Archaeology Society (BAS...for years by the Israeli Antiquities Authority and its panel...usually placid preserves of biblical scholarship. The restrictions...in press when the Israeli ...
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