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kudos to smithsonian channel for putting “gospel of jesus’ wife” documentary...
Word from the Smithsonian Channel is that they’ve decided to shelve a new documentary on the so-called “Gospel of Jesus’ Wife” due, in part, to a high degree of scholarly criticism ranging from claims...
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Dr. Jodi Magness to Give E.P. Adler Lecture at the University of Iowa as part...
Dr. Jodi Magness, the Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will be the keynote speaker at the 2012 University of...
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The Latest on the So-called “Gospel of Jesus’ Wife” and the Benefits of...
Jeremy Hsu at FoxNews has published an article entitled, “Did Jesus have a wife? Scholar calls parchment ‘forgery’“, that highlights the benefit of university professors, trained graduate students, and...
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Public Lecture: Dr. L. Michael White Named University of Iowa Ida Beam...
Dr. L. Michael White, the Ronald Nelson Smith Professor of Classics and Religious Studies & Director of the Institute for the Study of Antiquity and Christian Origins at the University of Texas at...
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Profs. Oded Lipschits and David Vanderhooft win 2012 G. Ernest Wright ASOR...
Congratulations are in order to Profs. Oded Lipschits and David Vanderhooft on being awarded the 2012 G. Ernest Wright ASOR Book Award. From Eisenbrauns: We at Eisenbrauns congratulate Oded Lipschits...
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Dig This Summer in Israel at Tel Azekah with the University of Iowa
I’d like to invite all who are interested to join us this summer for the second season of exploration at Tel Azekah, Israel. The University of Iowa is proud to be joining with Tel Aviv University and...
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UIowa Religious Studies PhD Student Cory Taylor to Lecture on Digital...
Cory Taylor, a University of Iowa Ph.D. student in Religious Studies, will offer a free lecture and host a hands-on workshop on digital modeling for Google Earth with Trimble SketchUp (formerly Google...
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NY Court of Appeals Upholds Raphael Golb’s Conviction on 29 of 30 Counts
Word from the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department this evening is that a three-judge panel ruled unanimously to uphold the convictions on 29 of 30 felony and misdemeanor counts...
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Hurt Puppy is Actually a Jedi
via. Filed under: archaeology, dead sea scrolls, justice and legal, robert cargill Tagged: criminal justice system, droids, hurt puppy, John Leland, meme, norman golb, NY Times, obi wan kenobi, raphael...
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Highlights from Tel Azekah 2012
Azekah alum Benjamin Sitzmann has put together a number of wonderful videos that captured daily life on the archaeological dig at Azekah last summer (2012). If your German is up to speed, watch the...
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You should be a Friend of ASOR
The American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) has begun a new program called Friends of ASOR that allows “friends” access to The Ancient Near East Today e-newsletter and the ASOR Resource Page...
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“The Rule of Creative Completion: Neofiti’s Use of שכלל” now available in...
You are invited to read my latest article in the Brill Journal Aramaic Studies entitled, “The Rule of Creative Completion: Neofiti’s Use of שכלל“. Here is the abstract: The verb שכלל never appears as...
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One Big Balagan: Robert Deutsch, Simcha Jacobovici, and their Campaign of...
בלגן (balagan): noun. (modern Hebrew, from Russian). 1) a chaotic mess of confusion and nonsense. 2) a state of extreme confusion and disorder. There is something quite foul coming from Israel, being...
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Explaining the Azekah Area S2 Water Cistern to Dovid and Barnea of Foundation...
While I was excavating the bor mayim (water cistern) in Area S2 at Azekah this summer, some old friends stopped by…well, more like dropped in. Dovid Willner and Barnea Selavan of Foundation Stone...
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Take a Tel Aviv University history course –“The Fall and Rise of Jerusalem”–...
The Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs is pleased to announce that during the upcoming academic year, Tel Aviv University will be offering two on-line history courses. The courses are available within...
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Apparently, I’m now “The Enforcer”
Go figure. Steve Caruso has shared with us the following post, which plays on Mr. Simcha Jacobovici’s recent response to Émile Puech’s comments about him. In Mr. Jacobovici’s response, her refers to me...
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Lecture by Prof. Oded Lipschits: “The Myth of the Empty Land and the Myth of...
Don’t miss the lecture by my Tel Azekah colleague and Tel Aviv University Professor of Archaeology, Dr. Oded Lipschits, recently given at the University of Chicago entitled, “The Myth of the Empty Land...
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Translation of Simcha Jacobovici’s Recent Comments
Simcha Jacobovici recently made some comments in response to Prof. Émile Puech, who accused Mr. Jacobovici of abusing him by “putting my name as a proof for their arguments” during a recent interview....
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The Rhetoric of Simcha Jacobovici: A Quick Study
It occurs to me that those not familiar with my history with Simcha Jacobovici may not completely comprehend the fanciful rhetoric employed by Mr. Jacobovici in his recent comments, which he wrote in...
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Robert Cargill lectures on Tel Azekah, Digital Archaeological Modeling, and...
I recently gave “Studio Talk” about Tel Azekah and Digital Archaeological Modeling entitled “Digi-Tel Azekah: Digitally Modeling Archaeological Remains on the Judean-Philistine Borderline” at the...
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