Summer School course: Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament: Texts, Traditions, Text Cases, Open Questions, Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg, July 1-4, 2026.

I think he may have been onto something there

I’m misremembering, it was 1950 when he published his first book on them.

One of the earliest comparisons between the community documents and Greek philosophical groups

A. Dupont-Sommer (1954)

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I look forward to reading that. There’s still debates on his use of sources, but you might find Czajkowski and Eckhardt’s Herod in History of interest around Nicolas of Damascus’ history

New article from @isaactsoon.bsky.social and myself on some Jewish Babylonian warlords in Josephus’ Antiquities. Hopefully will be of interest, it gets into questions around masculinity, orientalism and physiognomy in Josephus. Open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I’m not a textual critic but could take a quick look. Drop me a message

Calling all Professors of Religion! Do you teach an intro to the study of religion course? If so, would you be willing to share your syllabus? Collecting for research purposes.

Those are high priests of the Jerusalem Temple. There’s a long visual tradition of this but @katieturnerphd.com will know more.

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Last few, for important Qumran texts (and related stuff) Charlotte Hempel, Alison Schofield, Cecilia Wassen, Sidnie White Crawford, Carol Newsom, Joan Taylor (also for Philo) and Maren Niehoff for Philo

Also worth mentioning Jodi Magness’ Stone, Dung, Oil and Spit for introduction texts, which is engaged with archaeology. For later periods the Handbook of Jewish Daily Life edited by Catherine Hezser

For some texts, then perhaps Tessa Rajak on Josephus. More recently Katell Berthelot on the Jews and Their Roman Rivals. Marieke Dhont has recently edited the handbook on Hellenistic Jewish Literature in Greek. Sylvie Honigman has written on Maccabees.

Mary Smallwood’s The Jews under Roman Rule is an influential classic. Do you want things on specific texts/corpora too or genera overviews?

Koplow Games seems to make these and they appear to be stand alone novelty D10 die unconnected to a specific game

I only note that the national service at the Cenotaph includes prayers and hymns led by the Bishop of London…

I wonder what his feelings about the public observance Remembrance Sunday are?

Final push for sharing this. The deadline is next Monday and I can answer queries over the weekend if there’s any last minute applicants.