Evenson
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Bible and ANE Culture · Shapira manuscripts · DSS · Textual criticism · Linux/FOSS
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Exciting news! A new open access book on erasing and rewriting in manuscript cultures, edited by Michele Cammarosano.
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Erasing and Rewriting in Manuscript Cultures
Across the most diverse societies, the reuse of writing surfaces in contexts such as learning to write, note-taking, literary creation, and bookkeeping has been not only desirable but essential to opt...
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October 31, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Exciting news! A new open access book on erasing and rewriting in manuscript cultures, edited by Michele Cammarosano.
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Free to download for two weeks only!
Starting today, you can download my new book:
Between Yahwism and Judaism: Judean Cult and Culture during the Early Hellenistic Period (332–175 BCE)
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Starting today, you can download my new book:
Between Yahwism and Judaism: Judean Cult and Culture during the Early Hellenistic Period (332–175 BCE)
Download it now, and read it later.
Please share and spread the word!
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
October 22, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Free to download for two weeks only!
Starting today, you can download my new book:
Between Yahwism and Judaism: Judean Cult and Culture during the Early Hellenistic Period (332–175 BCE)
Download it now, and read it later.
Please share and spread the word!
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Starting today, you can download my new book:
Between Yahwism and Judaism: Judean Cult and Culture during the Early Hellenistic Period (332–175 BCE)
Download it now, and read it later.
Please share and spread the word!
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."
October 14, 2025 at 2:48 AM
History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."
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Our author @mmonier.bsky.social has received his copies of "When Jesus Rose Early", and we couldn’t be more excited!
You don’t need to wait to read it – it’s available to all in #OpenAccess! 📚📜
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You don’t need to wait to read it – it’s available to all in #OpenAccess! 📚📜
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September 17, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Our author @mmonier.bsky.social has received his copies of "When Jesus Rose Early", and we couldn’t be more excited!
You don’t need to wait to read it – it’s available to all in #OpenAccess! 📚📜
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You don’t need to wait to read it – it’s available to all in #OpenAccess! 📚📜
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Sept. 15, 51 CE: A wax tablet from Puteoli (AE 1973, 140) notes that OTD, 5 enslaved persons & a child were forfeited as security for a loan & would be auctioned from the portico of Caesonius in Puteoli’s forum on October 14— a notice was placed in the forum. edh.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/edh/inschrif...
![Record Number: EDR075460 TM Number: 144069
Ancient Region: LaC
Current Region: I
Ancient City: Pompeii - Puteoli TMGEO
Modern City: Pompei - Pozzuoli (Napoli)
Discovery Location: Pompei (Napoli), località Murecine, edificio con triclini (lug. 1959)
Current Location: Pompei (Napoli), Ufficio scavi
Object Type: tabula
Material: lignum
State of textual preservation: tit. mutilus
Writing Technique: stilo
Language: latina
Religion: Pagana
Inscription type: cetera
Type of persons mentioned: cet.; ord. sen.
Bibliography: G. Camodeca, Tabulae Pompeianae Sulpiciorum, I-II, Roma 1999, p. 188 sg. (TPSulp. 83), con foto e apografo (1)
HD010532 (2)
Text:
〈:tab. I, pag. 2 - stilo, intus〉
Ṭị(berio) Claudio C̣[aesare Aug(usto) V]
L(ucio) [A]ṇtistio(:Calventio) Carṃinio Vetere co(n)s(ulibus)
VIII ìdus Sept(embres).
Putiolis(:Puteolis) in porticu Aug(usti) Sextiana
5 ìn parastatica libellus 《fi》xus fuit,
ìn quo scriptum erat ìd quod ìnfra
scriptum est:
"Purpuras laconicas reliquas(:purpurae laconicae reliquae),
quas L(ucius) Marius Agathemer
10 C(aio) Sulp̣icio Cinnamo pignorì
dedisse dicitur,
venib(unt) V ìdus Sept(embres) primas
〈:tab. II periit〉
Show corrections/normalizations
Apparatus: Textus secundum (1)
Tab. I, pag. 2, v. 2: [A]ntistio erroneamente inciso al posto di Calventio
Date: 6 - 9 51 d.C. / 51 d.C. (historia, antiquitates)
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September 15, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Sept. 15, 51 CE: A wax tablet from Puteoli (AE 1973, 140) notes that OTD, 5 enslaved persons & a child were forfeited as security for a loan & would be auctioned from the portico of Caesonius in Puteoli’s forum on October 14— a notice was placed in the forum. edh.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/edh/inschrif...
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Just published (open access): Felix Albrecht and Reinhard Gregor Kratz, eds., Das Erbe der Göttinger Septuaginta Festschrift aus Anlass des 100. Geburtstages von Robert Hanhart (1925–2025). www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/59862/das-er...
September 15, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Just published (open access): Felix Albrecht and Reinhard Gregor Kratz, eds., Das Erbe der Göttinger Septuaginta Festschrift aus Anlass des 100. Geburtstages von Robert Hanhart (1925–2025). www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/59862/das-er...
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New article on Jesus’ bilingualism digitalcommons.liberty.edu/eleu/vol9/is...
A Bilingual Jesus: Assessing Evidence in the Gospels
This article examines issues of the historical Jesus’ linguistic proficiency, particularly in Greek, while providing an analysis of the use of other languages as well. Looking at recent studies on lan...
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September 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
New article on Jesus’ bilingualism digitalcommons.liberty.edu/eleu/vol9/is...
New open access article: In the Wisdom of Solomon, .. the “spirit of wisdom” and the personified Wisdom .. are brought together and developed. [..] The result is the “Angelomorphic Spirit of Wisdom,” a unique development in late Second Temple Jewish pneumatology.
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The Angelomorphic Spirit of Wisdom in the Wisdom of Solomon
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August 31, 2025 at 2:07 PM
New open access article: In the Wisdom of Solomon, .. the “spirit of wisdom” and the personified Wisdom .. are brought together and developed. [..] The result is the “Angelomorphic Spirit of Wisdom,” a unique development in late Second Temple Jewish pneumatology.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
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A new Cambridge Element volume on Linear A by Ester Salgarella, free to download for a limited window - grab it now!
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Writing in Bronze Age Crete
Cambridge Core - Classical Archaeology - Writing in Bronze Age Crete
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August 22, 2025 at 12:07 PM
A new Cambridge Element volume on Linear A by Ester Salgarella, free to download for a limited window - grab it now!
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Just published (open access): Jerome’s Sources in His Translation of the Hebrew Bible by Paul Rodrigue www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
August 21, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Just published (open access): Jerome’s Sources in His Translation of the Hebrew Bible by Paul Rodrigue www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
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This book is free to download for another couple of days: Reading Creation Myths Economically in Ancient Mesopotamia and Israel
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Reading Creation Myths Economically in Ancient Mesopotamia and Israel
Cambridge Core - Archaeology: General Interest - Reading Creation Myths Economically in Ancient Mesopotamia and Israel
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August 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
This book is free to download for another couple of days: Reading Creation Myths Economically in Ancient Mesopotamia and Israel
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Unity vs Idiosyncrasy
This volume explores new perspectives on the interplay between local law and legal coherence in ancient Greece from Archaic to Hellenistic times.
Fully available in #OA! #openaccess #lawhistory #ancientgreece
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This volume explores new perspectives on the interplay between local law and legal coherence in ancient Greece from Archaic to Hellenistic times.
Fully available in #OA! #openaccess #lawhistory #ancientgreece
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August 12, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Unity vs Idiosyncrasy
This volume explores new perspectives on the interplay between local law and legal coherence in ancient Greece from Archaic to Hellenistic times.
Fully available in #OA! #openaccess #lawhistory #ancientgreece
📖 doi.org/10.7788/9783...
This volume explores new perspectives on the interplay between local law and legal coherence in ancient Greece from Archaic to Hellenistic times.
Fully available in #OA! #openaccess #lawhistory #ancientgreece
📖 doi.org/10.7788/9783...
Now available in open access: "Reading: Performance and Materiality in Hebrew and Aramaic Traditions". www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
Reading: Performance and Materiality in Hebrew and Aramaic Traditions
This volume contains the proceedings the 'Reading: Performance and Materiality in Hebrew and Aramaic Traditions' colloquium, hosted at the University of Oxford in 2023, and jointly sponsored by the Or...
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July 29, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Now available in open access: "Reading: Performance and Materiality in Hebrew and Aramaic Traditions". www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
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New discovery: Archaeologists have uncovered a rare, intact Etruscan chamber tomb – a discovery hailed as one of the most significant finds in recent decades for understanding the ancient pre-Roman civilization.
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July 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
New discovery: Archaeologists have uncovered a rare, intact Etruscan chamber tomb – a discovery hailed as one of the most significant finds in recent decades for understanding the ancient pre-Roman civilization.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use
Update: The Metropolitan Museum of Art has put online 492,000 high-resolution images of artistic works. Even better, the museum has placed the vast majority of these images into the public domain, mea...
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July 17, 2025 at 10:39 PM
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use
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New blog post: back to the Synoptic Problem, and something that didn't occur to me until recently: ntweblog.blogspot.com/2025/07/luke... #SynopticProblem
Luke's Arrangements and Luke's Special Material
One of the challenges of studying the Synoptic Problem is also one of its joys. The more you stare at the Synopsis, and the more you think a...
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July 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
New blog post: back to the Synoptic Problem, and something that didn't occur to me until recently: ntweblog.blogspot.com/2025/07/luke... #SynopticProblem
Friedberg & Hoppe in the June issue of Journal for the Study of the Old Testament:
Did the Shapira manuscript betray an unambiguously Pentateuchal perspective? A rejoinder to Stackert
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Did the Shapira manuscript betray an unambiguously Pentateuchal perspective? A rejoinder to Stackert
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June 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Friedberg & Hoppe in the June issue of Journal for the Study of the Old Testament:
Did the Shapira manuscript betray an unambiguously Pentateuchal perspective? A rejoinder to Stackert
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Did the Shapira manuscript betray an unambiguously Pentateuchal perspective? A rejoinder to Stackert
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New paper (should be #OpenAccess, something went wrong)! I argue that the plural features of the #Hebrew word for 'god' are inherited from an older stage of #Semitic. Archaic Biblical Hebrew still reflects a paradigm in between Standard Biblical Hebrew and the reconstructed Semitic one. 🐦🐦
Semitic *ʾilāh- and Hebrew :אלהים From plural 'gods' to singular 'God'
The Biblical Hebrew word אלהים is plural in form. Semantically and syntactically, however, it can be plural or singular. The stem of this noun can be reconstructed as *ʾilāh-. As already noted by We...
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May 30, 2025 at 8:49 AM
New paper (should be #OpenAccess, something went wrong)! I argue that the plural features of the #Hebrew word for 'god' are inherited from an older stage of #Semitic. Archaic Biblical Hebrew still reflects a paradigm in between Standard Biblical Hebrew and the reconstructed Semitic one. 🐦🐦
For those who might be interested, T.C. Schmidt’s "Josephus and Jesus" is now available as a free digital download. The book offers a reappraisal of the scholarly consensus on Josephus’ Testimonium Flavianum. An interesting premise; definitely seems worth a read! josephusandjesus.com/purchase-page/
Purchase & Free Download - Josephus & Jesus
How to Download for Free A generous donor has made Josephus and Jesus freely available in digital format. To download the PDF or to read the web version, click here. When sharing the PDF with others, ...
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May 21, 2025 at 1:57 AM
For those who might be interested, T.C. Schmidt’s "Josephus and Jesus" is now available as a free digital download. The book offers a reappraisal of the scholarly consensus on Josephus’ Testimonium Flavianum. An interesting premise; definitely seems worth a read! josephusandjesus.com/purchase-page/
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A 4,000-year-old Egyptian writing board with a student's work and a teacher's spelling corrections in red.
April 23, 2025 at 10:02 PM
A 4,000-year-old Egyptian writing board with a student's work and a teacher's spelling corrections in red.
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The Forgotten Meaning of אוֹת
doi.org/10.1163/1568...
In light of these findings, we recommend updating biblical lexicons to include the meanings “pronouncement, promise, assurance” for the noun אוֹת and “commit” for its corresponding verb.
doi.org/10.1163/1568...
In light of these findings, we recommend updating biblical lexicons to include the meanings “pronouncement, promise, assurance” for the noun אוֹת and “commit” for its corresponding verb.
April 16, 2025 at 6:40 AM
The Forgotten Meaning of אוֹת
doi.org/10.1163/1568...
In light of these findings, we recommend updating biblical lexicons to include the meanings “pronouncement, promise, assurance” for the noun אוֹת and “commit” for its corresponding verb.
doi.org/10.1163/1568...
In light of these findings, we recommend updating biblical lexicons to include the meanings “pronouncement, promise, assurance” for the noun אוֹת and “commit” for its corresponding verb.