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SBL Annual Meeting 2010: Biblical Studies Conference in the Buckle of the Bible Belt
I arrived home Wednesday night from the 2010 Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting held in Atlanta, Georgia. This year’s conference was an especially good one, in my experience, at least. I still look back with fondness on my first national SBL meeting in San Diego — the setting alone is hard to beat. However, [...]
Posted in Apocalypticism/Mysticism, Early Christianity, Early Judaism, Religious Scholars Also tagged 2010, Andre Orlov, Atlanta, Bogdan Bucur, Christianity, Daphne Arbel, early, Guy Williams, Hebrews, Isaiah, Jack Levison, Jewish, Jim Davila, Knight, Merkabah, Mysticism, Peter Schafer, Rachel Elior, Rebecca Lesses, SBL, Silviu Bunta Comments closed
Happy New Year (Rosh HaShanah)
Happy (Jewish) New Year!! Today is Rosh Hashanah (“head/first of the year”), the beginning of year 5771 in the Jewish world. Rosh Hashanah is one of Judaism’s “high” holidays, and some very significant traditions are associated with it. Rosh Hashanah marks God’s creation of the world, and is the “birthday” of Adam and Eve. The [...]
Posted in Early Judaism, News and Events, Temple Also tagged Atonement, Creation, Day of Atonement, Jewish, kingshjip, New Year, Rosh Hashanah, shofar, trumpets Comments closed
Rebuilding Solomon’s Temple, in Sao Paulo, Brazil
From the New York Times (via PaleoJudaica.blogspot.com): Rebuilding Solomon’s Temple, in São Paulo By ROBERT MACKEY This week, as Jews around the world observed the fasting day of Tisha B’av, commemorating the destruction of the First and Second Jewish Temples in ancient Jerusalem, a Brazilian megachurch received planning permission to build a 10,000-seat replica of Solomon’s Temple [...]
Posted in News and Events, Temple Also tagged Brazil, Jerusalem, rebuilt, Sao Paulo, solomon's temple, Temple of Solomon, Templo de Salomao Comments closed
The Ark of the Covenant Unveiled — Almost! And St. Paul’s Bones?
The Ark of the Covenant On Friday, the Patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Ethiopia was reported to have planned to announce to the world that the Ark of the Covenant, which he claimed has been kept hidden in a church in Ethiopia for millenia, would finally be unveiled for the world to see! http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=102119 [...]
Posted in News and Events, Scripture, Temple Also tagged Ark of the Covenant, Bones, Ethiopia, Israel, Orthodox Church, Pope Benedict, Relics, St. Paul, St. Paul's Basilica Comments closed
How Many Judaisms?
Often when we think of Judaism, with think of this ancient monolithic system that has never changed much. Many assume that the Judaism of today is the same as the Judaism of ancient Rabbis, which is the same Judaism as is presented in the New Testament and, likewise, the Old. Nothing could be further from [...]
Posted in Early Christianity, Scripture, Temple Also tagged Boccaccini, Enoch, Enochic Judaism, Rabbinic Judaism, Sapiential Judaism, Second Temple, Wisdom Comments closed
Alan F. Segal, Professor of Jewish Studies