This is a brilliant article and well worth your time. Speaking of which...well, just read it, people.

I think Yonathan Adler's recent book may provide you with some useful info on this. I don't know offhand how many priests we can imaging in Jerusalem at that time, but a major pilgrimage site would have to had a significant number of working priests.

For those who cannot attend my book review session at SBL tomorrow, here is the final paragraph of the response I'll be giving.

No jokes in this one, I'm afraid.

My new book is now out through Oxford University Press. Cover photo and link below.

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A shame! I hope you like the book, though.

Wouldn't be a fun party without you!

Heyyy....first new post in a while. If you're a colleague attending the Society of Biblical Literature meeting in San Diego, c'mon down to the session reviewing my new book! It would be great to see some friendly faces there.

Hi folks, been away for a while dealing with Ye Olde Personal Lyfe but it's fabulous to log back in and see so many great people here. Spending some time now working on a new research project involving Jewish cinema, biblical text and neurolinguistics. So far, kinda fun.

Posted this on the "other" place...here's the final paragraph for my forthcoming book on Persian imperial myth and the formation of Jewish scripture.

Well shoot, I wouldn't mind that.

I have to get through the editing stage, which is killing me. I feel like I'm swimming/drowning in this material and terrified that for all I've read through and thought about, it's not enough and I'm missing something essential.

Okay, my first "for real" post. I've been doing work on post-colonial approaches to ancient Persian imperialism, but could use some suggestions for recent research (in the last, say, 5 years). If anything springs to mind, please chime in!

This is my second post.

Okay, NOW what?