Ancient Jew Review
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Ancient Jew Review is a subscription-free digital journal for the study of ancient Jews and their neighbors. ancientjewreview.com
The Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls display a keen interest in the Israelite priesthood. Robert E. Jones' look at the Aramaic Levi Document reveals that this may have to do with the shifting fortunes of the priesthood in the 3rd cent BCE!
www.ancientjewreview.com/2025/10/17/hellenistic-context-aramaic-dss
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October 20, 2025 at 1:17 PM
The Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls display a keen interest in the Israelite priesthood. Robert E. Jones' look at the Aramaic Levi Document reveals that this may have to do with the shifting fortunes of the priesthood in the 3rd cent BCE!
www.ancientjewreview.com/2025/10/17/hellenistic-context-aramaic-dss
www.ancientjewreview.com/2025/10/17/hellenistic-context-aramaic-dss
New pod! Mike talks to Jennifer Barry about Gender Violence in Late Antiquity
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September 29, 2025 at 1:05 PM
New pod! Mike talks to Jennifer Barry about Gender Violence in Late Antiquity
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New pod! Mike interviews Tina Shepardson about A Memory of Violence: Syriac Christianity and the Radicalization of Religious Difference in Late Antiquity.
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September 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM
New pod! Mike interviews Tina Shepardson about A Memory of Violence: Syriac Christianity and the Radicalization of Religious Difference in Late Antiquity.
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New pod! Matthew D. C. Larsen and Mark Letteney on Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration
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September 15, 2025 at 9:49 AM
New pod! Matthew D. C. Larsen and Mark Letteney on Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration
You can now subscribe to the show too.
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You can now subscribe to the show too.
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New podcast! Mike Motia interviews Walter Scheidel about his book, What Is Ancient History? @princetonupress.bsky.social
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August 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
New podcast! Mike Motia interviews Walter Scheidel about his book, What Is Ancient History? @princetonupress.bsky.social
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New Books in Late Antiquity episode! Lydia Bremer-McCollum discusses Coptic Culture and Community: Daily Lives, Changing Times with author Mariam Ayad. newbooksnetwork.com/coptic-cultu...
August 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
New Books in Late Antiquity episode! Lydia Bremer-McCollum discusses Coptic Culture and Community: Daily Lives, Changing Times with author Mariam Ayad. newbooksnetwork.com/coptic-cultu...
New Books in Late Antiquity podcast episode featuring Tatiana Bur's Technologies of the Marvellous in Ancient Greek Religion. newbooksnetwork.com/technologies...
August 11, 2025 at 1:50 PM
New Books in Late Antiquity podcast episode featuring Tatiana Bur's Technologies of the Marvellous in Ancient Greek Religion. newbooksnetwork.com/technologies...
New podcast episode! Mike Motia interviews Caroline Johnson Hodge about The God of This House: Christian Domestic Cult Before Constantine. newbooksnetwork.com/the-god-of-t...
July 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
New podcast episode! Mike Motia interviews Caroline Johnson Hodge about The God of This House: Christian Domestic Cult Before Constantine. newbooksnetwork.com/the-god-of-t...
New podcast episode! Mike Motia interviews Andrew Tobolowsky about Israel and its Heirs in Late Antiquity. newbooksnetwork.com/israel-and-i...
July 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
New podcast episode! Mike Motia interviews Andrew Tobolowsky about Israel and its Heirs in Late Antiquity. newbooksnetwork.com/israel-and-i...
New Books in Late Antiquity episode! Mike Motia interviews Stefanie Lenk about her book, Roman Identity and Lived Religion: Baptismal Art in Late Antiquity. newbooksnetwork.com/roman-identi...
June 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
New Books in Late Antiquity episode! Mike Motia interviews Stefanie Lenk about her book, Roman Identity and Lived Religion: Baptismal Art in Late Antiquity. newbooksnetwork.com/roman-identi...
New Books in Late Antiquity episode! Mike Motia interviews Krista Dalton about her book, How Rabbis Became Experts. newbooksnetwork.com/how-rabbis-b...
May 28, 2025 at 1:05 PM
New Books in Late Antiquity episode! Mike Motia interviews Krista Dalton about her book, How Rabbis Became Experts. newbooksnetwork.com/how-rabbis-b...
New Books in Late Antiquity episode! Mike Motia interviews Andrew Griebeler about his book, Botanical Icons: Critical Practices of Illustration in the Premodern Mediterranean. newbooksnetwork.com/botanical-ic...
May 12, 2025 at 1:05 PM
New Books in Late Antiquity episode! Mike Motia interviews Andrew Griebeler about his book, Botanical Icons: Critical Practices of Illustration in the Premodern Mediterranean. newbooksnetwork.com/botanical-ic...
New podcast episode! Lydia Bremer-McCollum interviews Monika Amsler about The Babylonian Talmud and Late Antique Book Culture. newbooksnetwork.com/the-babyloni...
April 30, 2025 at 1:05 PM
New podcast episode! Lydia Bremer-McCollum interviews Monika Amsler about The Babylonian Talmud and Late Antique Book Culture. newbooksnetwork.com/the-babyloni...
New podcast episode! Michael Motia interviews Cam Grey about Living With Risk in the Late Roman World (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025). newbooksnetwork.com/living-with-...
April 28, 2025 at 7:03 PM
New podcast episode! Michael Motia interviews Cam Grey about Living With Risk in the Late Roman World (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025). newbooksnetwork.com/living-with-...
New podcast! Michael Motia interviews Mara Nicosia about Syriac Lexis and Lexica: Compiling Ancient and Modern Vocabularies. newbooksnetwork.com/syriac-lexis...
April 15, 2025 at 1:15 PM
New podcast! Michael Motia interviews Mara Nicosia about Syriac Lexis and Lexica: Compiling Ancient and Modern Vocabularies. newbooksnetwork.com/syriac-lexis...
Want to learn more from Dr. Rafael Neis? They will be teaching a mini course with Judaism Unbound on "Untangling Tselem Elohim" on Tuesdays April 22nd-May 6th. For information, visit: www.judaismunbound.com/2025-courses....
April 8, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Want to learn more from Dr. Rafael Neis? They will be teaching a mini course with Judaism Unbound on "Untangling Tselem Elohim" on Tuesdays April 22nd-May 6th. For information, visit: www.judaismunbound.com/2025-courses....
New podcast episode featuring Shane Bobrycki's The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages. https://buff.ly/42VYWV2
February 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM
New podcast episode featuring Shane Bobrycki's The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages. https://buff.ly/42VYWV2
Shai Secunda explores the methodological insights of Simcha Gross’ Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity.
February 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Shai Secunda explores the methodological insights of Simcha Gross’ Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity.
New podcast episode featuring Rafe Neis's When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species (U California Press, 2023). https://buff.ly/40vacoz
January 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
New podcast episode featuring Rafe Neis's When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species (U California Press, 2023). https://buff.ly/40vacoz
New podcast! Michael Motia interviews Catherine Hezser about Rabbinic Scholarship in the Context of Late Antique Scholasticism: The Development of the Talmud Yerushalmi (Bloomsbury, 2024). https://buff.ly/4fNG0L5
January 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
New podcast! Michael Motia interviews Catherine Hezser about Rabbinic Scholarship in the Context of Late Antique Scholasticism: The Development of the Talmud Yerushalmi (Bloomsbury, 2024). https://buff.ly/4fNG0L5
New podcast ep! Mike Motia interviews Blake Leyerle about what it meant for ordinary believers to live a Christian life in late antiquity? Featuring In Christians at Home: John Chrysostom and Domestic Rituals in Fourth-Century Antioch (Penn State University Press, 2024).
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December 23, 2024 at 2:05 PM
New podcast ep! Mike Motia interviews Blake Leyerle about what it meant for ordinary believers to live a Christian life in late antiquity? Featuring In Christians at Home: John Chrysostom and Domestic Rituals in Fourth-Century Antioch (Penn State University Press, 2024).
https://buff.ly/3BUEKaO
https://buff.ly/3BUEKaO
New podcast episode featuring A.J. Berkowitz's A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023). https://buff.ly/4fY9kiJ
December 10, 2024 at 2:05 PM
New podcast episode featuring A.J. Berkowitz's A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023). https://buff.ly/4fY9kiJ
New podcast ep! Mike Motia interviews Julia Kelto Lillis about Virgin Territory: Configuring Female Virginity in Early Christianity (University of California Press, 2022). https://buff.ly/415TXAi
November 26, 2024 at 2:05 PM
New podcast ep! Mike Motia interviews Julia Kelto Lillis about Virgin Territory: Configuring Female Virginity in Early Christianity (University of California Press, 2022). https://buff.ly/415TXAi
And to close out #AJRAnniversary Week: the number one most read article in ten years has been Mika Ahuvia's "An Introduction to Toledot Yeshu."
November 21, 2024 at 5:03 PM
And to close out #AJRAnniversary Week: the number one most read article in ten years has been Mika Ahuvia's "An Introduction to Toledot Yeshu."
AJR Year 9 (2023): Rebecca Wollenberg shared insight into her writing of The Closed Book: How the Rabbis Taught the Jews (Not) to Read the Bible #AJRAnniversary https://buff.ly/45CIFmN
November 20, 2024 at 5:08 PM
AJR Year 9 (2023): Rebecca Wollenberg shared insight into her writing of The Closed Book: How the Rabbis Taught the Jews (Not) to Read the Bible #AJRAnniversary https://buff.ly/45CIFmN