From the SBL website: The Community Rule: A Critical Edition with TranslationSarianna Metso The discovery and translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls transformed our understanding of the life and history […]
A new collection, which you can check out on the publisher’s website, from a prominent scholar of second temple Judaism. The first half is devoted to the Qumran finds, and […]
A new book is out from Annette Yoshiko Reed, who has done a lot of great work on apocalyptic literature. Demons, Angels, and Writing in Ancient Judaism Annette Yoshiko […]
Two archaeological discoveries from the 1940s irrevocably changed the study of early Christianity and ancient Judaism: the unearthing of the Gnostic codices found near Nag Hammadi (Upper Egypt) in 1945, and of […]
From the website at Brill: Apocalyptic Thinking in Early Judaism. Engaging with John Collins’ ‘The Apocalyptic Imagination.’ Edited by Cecilia Wassen and Sidnie White Crawford. Supplements to the Journal for the Study […]
Just published last month is Michael Stone’s Secret Groups in Ancient Judaism (Oxford). In case the title alone does not grab followers of this website, the table of contents (see […]
Via Earl Fontainelle – the schedule for the upcoming conference, Being Jewish, Writing Greek, has been posted. Looks like a very promising conference on many levels. I copy the schedule […]
