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"Dear Colleagues, The long-term DFG project Qumran-Digital: Text and Lexicon at the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony is pleased to make available the second alpha version of its website (https://www.qumran-digital.org). In addition to new lexicon articles and updates...

I do not find the summary by neilgodfrey above (time stamp for ID purposes: Sat Jun 03, 2023 2:39 pm) to be even-handed. I have lately found attempts at dialog with ng largely unsatisfactory, in content and in tone. For now I mention merely one point, namely, the ng use of the term "the Lemche-...

A recent discussion that is not archived online prompted this comment about halahka (plural, halakhot), Jewish rabbinic law. The term is known from the Mishna and later writings up until today, but probably also existed earlier as well. I say this, and wrote about it,* following several others, give...

Some relevant information and bibliography are provided in my article:

"7 vs. 8: The Battle Over the Holy Day at Dura-Europos"
https://people.duke.edu/~goranson/Dura-Europos.pdf

As to the second question: no, not just one person.

CW asked, above, where Marcionite synagogues were located. One Marcionite synagogue inscription, mentioning Jesus Christ, dated to 318-319 CE, was reportedly located in the village of Lebaba, seven kilometers south-east of Damascus, noted e.g. in this review by WHC Frend: https://www.jstor.org/stabl...

A reply to neilgodfrey, post just above. I merely copied the time stamp in order to identify the post. The question mark was for the "Contra" phrase, not for the time. Russell Gmirkin wrote, in part, on BC&HF, in the "Two Failures of the 270s creation proposal?" thread, post ...

Russell E. Gmirkin, Plato's Timaeus and the Biblical Creation Accounts...(2022) page 89: "....It follows that the proto-LXX _Vorlage_ for the Septuagint translation was the original text of the Pentateuch created circa 270 BCE...." That, plus other references to "authoritative copy,&q...

When Torah was first written is one question. When many tried to follow it is another question. One opinion (not necessarily matching mine): Jerusalem Post 'The Origins of Judaism': Finding how far back rabbinic tradition goes - review Prof. Yonatan Adler’s book provides proofs both for and against ...

ANE Today June 2023 Vol. 11, No. 6 Baths of the Roman and Byzantine Southern Levant: Roman Ideas and Local Interpretations By Arleta Kowalewska and Craig A. Harvey for text, photos, and bibliography: <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.asor.org/anetoday/2023/06/baths-southern-levant__;!!OToaGQ!...

mlinssen wrote above, in part, apparently addressing SA: "Do yourself and everyone else a favour, and stop posting for a while. Or rather, you can write them but not Submit them, alright? Just put them in draft, let them simmer for a day, then read them again. And ask yourself what impressions ...