I've been looking for a real world copy of this for a while... and it's been a free ebook all along: Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Donald A. MacKenzie - Project Gutenberg I'm so jealous of the tools and resources that young people have at their disposal today. Makes me weak-kneed to think of the incredible amount of information my 5 month old daughter will be able to access ...
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 ...
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Here are the evaluations from my students of my performance as their professor for the Spring Old Testament 101 class at Gardner-Webb University. I taught two sections J (or Moses) and M (or Zipporah). harrelson-samuel-ug-reli-sp07.pdf I miss the students already and wish them all the best as they find their paths in life!
It has long been assumed that Herod was buried at Herodium, but decades of excavations failed to turn up the site until now. The first century historian Josephus Flavius described the tomb and Herod's funeral procession.King Herod 's tomb found, archaeologist says - CNN.com
Wow. What a day. I just got home from the SECSOR (South Eastern Conference for the Study of Religion) Annual Meeting in Nashville, TN. I learned so much at the conference, and I'll be including specific notes and ideas of things that plummeted me into deep bouts of thought and reconsiderations over the next few days. At the conference, I purchased a few books... well... a lot of books from the small ...
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