Salon.com does a fantastic job of presenting the situation at the Baghdad Museum after the US invasion of Iraq five years ago and where things stand now. There's a text transcript as well as a mp3 podcast available of a very valuable roundtable discussion... The looting of Iraq | Salon News: "Among the many unintended and unforeseen consequences of the U.S. occupation of Iraq that began five years ...
I came across a great new email discussion list that I promptly joined this morning called The Biblicalist. If you're a student of the Hebrew or Christian Bible, it looks like a fantastic resource. This isn't for everyone, but could grow to become something very valuable... biblicalist : The Biblicalist: "Welcome to The Biblicalist, a biblical studies list of academic emphasis open to all who wish to approach the ...
This one shows the building from the outside. Cool, eh? And this one shows part of a Hebrew inscription on the inside. The first part of the inscription is outside the frame, but the rest reads הנביא בן בוזי הכהן זכותו ינן עלינו ועל כל ישראל אמן, "... the prophet, son of Buzi, the priest. May his merit increase upon us and upon all Israel. Amen." The prophet ...
JANES (Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society) is online at the Jewish Theological Seminary! Lots of fun Assyriology and Hebrew Bible material to dig through!Thanks to PaleoJudaica for the tip. JANES, the Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society, was founded in 1968 at Columbia University, and has been housed at the Jewish Theological Seminary since 1982. Over these approximately forty years 30 volumes have been published ...
Holy Bibble is by far my favorite (web) comic. Today's episode is great:Laban's Signs
One of my main passions offline is research into Dura Europos. I had the privilege to catalogue, photograph and work with much of what remains of Dura Europos' artwork while a grad student at Yale (Yale led the Dura Europos excavations in the 1930's and brought thousands and thousands of pieces back to the Yale Art Gallery where much of it resides in the basement of the ...
My life is now complete (via boing boing), a Bible translation project using the popular LOLCat form: 1. In teh beginnin Ceiling Cat was invisible, and he maded the skiez and da earths, but he did not eated it. 2. The earths wus witout shapez and wus dark and scary and stuffs, and he rode invisible bike over teh waterz. Thanks, Jeff D! Genesis 1 - LOLCat Bible Translation Project
Bible Geek rejoicing... Vol 2 of the new New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible (D-H) just arrived in the mail. I signed up to receive the set at the Society of Biblical Literature conference this past spring in Nashville. Now I can look up Josiah, Hezekiah, Eschatology and Edom. Good stuff!
Every page on this site is disturbing and odd. Here are a few of my favorites... The story of Elisha, the she bear and the mauling of the boy scouts from 2 Kings Dinosaurs and stupid science Conforming is Fun! (for the kiddies) This has got to be a hoax site... right? Yep, it's a hoax (according to a couple of forums found by a Google search). Thank the gods!
I appreciate all forms of life on earth, but the cat is one of my least favorite (down there with mosquitoes and lice). Anyway, this backs me up. Fun reading sent by my pal and colleague Jeff Doak. Additionally, cats practice many unclean habits not befitting a Christian household: coughing up fur balls, licking inappropriate body areas on their own bodies (inappropriate handling) and even, in some cases, on ...
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