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New Work Released on The Book of Noah
NEW BOOK published by the SBL: Noah and His Book(s) Michael E. Stone, Aryeh Amihay, Vered Hillel ISBN 1589834887 Status Available Price: $45.95 Binding Paperback Publication Date June, 2010 In a collection of original essays, this book offers new insights on the question of the lost “book of Noah,” as well as studies of Noah’s [...]
Posted in Early Christianity, Early Judaism, News and Events, Pseudepigrapha/Apocrypha, Religious Scholars Also tagged lost books, Michael Stone, Noah, Pseudepigrapha, SBL Comments closed
Answers to Questions Regarding Heavenly Ascent in Early Jewish and Early Christian Literature
This post comprises some very interesting questions posed to me by a new reader of this blog, Steve Bastasch, regarding the development of the “heavenly ascent” theme in early Christian thought and writings and their Jewish background. My answer to these questions follows. ————————————————————————— Steve: I’m new to your Heavenly Ascents blog – it looks [...]
Posted in Apocalypticism/Mysticism, Early Christianity, Early Judaism, Heavenly Ascents Also tagged Alan Segal, Crispin Fletcher-Louis, Early Christianity, Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism, Early Judaism, Enoch, Heavenly Ascent, Heavenly Ascents, Hebrew Bible, James Davila, Jesus, kavod, Martha Himmelfarb, mysteries, New Testament, Qumran, Rabbinic Judaism, Second Temple Judaism Comments closed
Notes on Early Jewish Belief in a Messiah
The following is from some notes that I took in Professor Jim Davila’s class on the Dead Sea Scrolls this week. I sit in on this undergraduate class of his just to get more exposure to his great knowledge and expertise on this topic. The way the class is set up, at least at this [...]
Posted in Doctrinal Issues, Early Christianity, Early Judaism, Religious Scholars, School Journal Also tagged Dead Sea Scrolls, High Priest, James Davila, Jesus Christ, King David, Melchizedek, Messiah, Messianism, Qumran Comments closed
N.T. Wright Appointed to New Testament Chair at University of St Andrews
VIA JIM DAVILA @ PALEOJUDAICA N. T. WRIGHT (Bishop Tom Wright) has been appointed to a New Testament Chair at the Divinity School of the University of St. Andrews: Tuesday 27 April 2010 The School of Divinity is delighted to announce that Dr N. T. (Tom) Wright, currently Bishop of Durham, has been appointed to [...]
Posted in News and Events, Religious Scholars Also tagged Bishop, Divinity, Durham, Early Christianity, N.T. Wright, New Testament, St Mary's, University of St Andrews Comments closed
13th-Century BC Gold Tablet Inscribed with Assyrian Cuneiform
This is not a recent discovery, but some recent news about an Assyrian inscription on a gold tablet discovered in 1913 (that some may not have heard of). It is amazing how ancient this example is of using gold for preserving texts. My thanks to Jim Davila for bringing us all the latest and greatest [...]
Posted in LDS Interest, News and Events, Religious Scholars Also tagged Assyrian, cuneiform, gold plates, gold tablet Comments closed
Religious Scholars on the Web
First of all, I would like to apologize for the paucity of posts recently. I have been very busy with school, as it is the last semester of my MA program and there is a lot of extra work required for graduation. I wanted to share with you some links to some great religious scholars [...]
Posted in Religious Scholars Also tagged Andrei Orlov, April DeConick, Grandpa Enoch, Michael Heiser, Rachel Elior, Robert Kraft Comments closed
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