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July 31, 2010
Recent Comments From Ed Brayton
Reflecting on the possibility that Hewt Gingrich will run for President, Ed wrote, I think Newt knows damn well that if he runs for president, it's open season on his past -- and he's got more skeletons in his closet...Read all of "Recent Comments From Ed Brayton"
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July 30, 2010
Archaeology And Computer Modeling
Inside Science has an article on using computer modeling in archaeology. The article begins, Making sense of the shards, scraps and other clues left behind by past societies compels archaeologists to study far-ranging topics, from agriculture to art and chemistry...Read all of "Archaeology And Computer Modeling"
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July 29, 2010
Abnormal Hebrew
I just got the proofs for my pissing paper. It looks like it is scheduled to be published in the October issue of the CBQ. The editor's and copyreader's work was great. In several important ways, the proof is better...
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July 27, 2010
Kanaano-Akkadische
Das Kanaano-Akkadische der Amarnazeit Lehrbücher orientalischer Sprachen - LOS I/1Edited by Josef Tropper and Juan-Pablo Vita Ugarit-Verlag, 2010 163 pages, German and English Paper ISBN: 9783868350234 Your Price: $40.00 www.eisenbrauns.com/item/TROKANAAN The recent publication of the tablet fragment from Jerusalem...Read all of "Kanaano-Akkadische"
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July 26, 2010
More(?) On The Hazor Fragments
The other day I reported on a short note concerning two small fragments of what apparently was a single cuneiform tablet uncovered at Hazor. Well, a little more news and some additional hype are now available. According to Wayne Horowitz,...Read all of "More(?) On The Hazor Fragments"
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Would You Prefer To Be Seated On The Patio?
For 200,000 thousand years or so, the elite of our species sought to dine indoors. For the last several decades, the elite of our species have sought to dine outdoors. In it in this context that I note the recent,...Read all of "Would You Prefer To Be Seated On The Patio?"
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July 25, 2010
Ancient Metaphysics Anyone?
Anna Marmodoro, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and Junior Research Fellow at Oxford’s Corpus Christi College, just received a five year, £1m, grant from the European Research Council to study “Power structuralism in ancient ontologies." The project aims to bring about...Read all of "Ancient Metaphysics Anyone?"
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July 24, 2010
Rant Of The Day
Is breaking appointments pervasive? I just got a call reminding me of an appointment to get my car serviced on Monday. Anytime Shirley or I have a doctor’s appointment, they call to remind us. Or more likely, their robot calls...Read all of "Rant Of The Day "
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July 23, 2010
Immoral Questions
There’s a standard issue canard that many religious people bring up concerning the basis of value, ethical value in particularly, but I’ve even seen it extended to aesthetic value and even value in logic. When stated as a question, as...Read all of "Immoral Questions"
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July 22, 2010
Friends Of Tayinat
The excavations at Tell Ta’yinat in Southeastern Turkey are among the most exciting and significant of the several exciting and significant excavations currently in the field. Timothy Harrison, Project Director, has just announced Friends of Tayinat. Friends of Tayinat is,...Read all of "Friends Of Tayinat"
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July 21, 2010
Four Stone Hearth Is Up
Judith Weingarten has just posted the 97th edition of Four Stone Hearth, the anthropology web carnival. Check it out at Zenobia: Empress of the East. Judith has a very nice discussion of the Jerusalem 1 tablet and the controversy that...Read all of "Four Stone Hearth Is Up"
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July 19, 2010
Fragments Of A Law Code from Hazor?
Robert Cargill reports on a report from Jack Sasson. Grab a handful of capital letters, get over to Roberts’ official blog and check it out. Quoting Sasson, here’s the money line, “The text parallels portions of the famous Law Code...Read all of "Fragments Of A Law Code from Hazor?"
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July 18, 2010
The Onion Scoops Forthcoming Twain Autobiography
An Onion News in Brief exposes Mark Twain’s views on our world....Read all of "The Onion Scoops Forthcoming Twain Autobiography"
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July 17, 2010
The Genre Of Jerusalem 1: One More Time
Christopher Rollston has updated his post on the Jerusalem 1 tablet fragment with two comments by people who have spent a lot of their professional lives looking at Late Bronze Age tablets from the western periphery, John Huehnergard and Wilfred...Read all of "The Genre Of Jerusalem 1: One More Time"
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July 16, 2010
Is That CAD Or CAD?
These days when I see the letters CAD I think, Chicago Assyrian Dictionary. Doesn’t everyone? So when I got an email whose subject read, “CAD Software Plugins,” I was baffled for a few moments. WOW, CAD software plugins! Wow, CAD...Read all of "Is That CAD Or CAD?"
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July 15, 2010
Jerusalem1 Again: A Discussion Of Genre
Christopher Rollston and Robert Cargill have both posted reflections on the Jerusalem1 Akkadian cuneiform fragment recently published by Mazar et al. I’ve already commented on this fragment in a couple of posts. You will recall that Mazar et al. more...Read all of "Jerusalem1 Again: A Discussion Of Genre"
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July 14, 2010
Filling Holes Lacunae And Time
I’m currently working on two projects, one of some importance and one that, for want of indisputable evidence, is less so. Both are somewhat stalled while I wait for a couple of things from interlibrary loan. So what do I...
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July 12, 2010
Old Snails
Archaeo+Malacology Group Newsletter No. 17 is now available. Several of the short notes will be interesting to anyone with abnormal interests. I found Henk K. Mienis’s note on “Shells from Horvat 'Illin Tahtit, a late Early Bronze I site in...
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July 11, 2010
The Scribes Of Late Bronze Age Jerusalem
Back in September of 2006, I made a valiant effort to adduce evidence for a scribal school in Late Bronze Age Jerusalem. Here’s the evidence as I summarized it at the time. Strong diagnostic evidence for scribal schools at places...Read all of "The Scribes Of Late Bronze Age Jerusalem"
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July 10, 2010
When Religious Convections and Image Collide
I’m planning to stone someone. Here’s my plan. First, I’ll dig a hole and bury her up to her chest. I wouldn’t be so benevolent if she were a man. Then I’ll collect a bunch of stones. No single stone...Read all of "When Religious Convections and Image Collide"
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Quotation Of The Day
I'm not going to claim the high horse and say that I have never cited an old classic that I have not read myself, a sloppy and unscholarly practice. Nonetheless, is it too much to ask that if you cite...Read all of "Quotation Of The Day"
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Jerusalem 1: The First Cuneiform Tablet Found In Jerusalem
In the just released issue of Israel Exploration Journal, Eilat Mazar, Wayne Horowitz, Takayoshi Oshima and Yuval Goren publish the archaeological context, the philology and the mineralogy of a fragment of a Late Bronze Age cuneiform tablet that Mazar uncovered...Read all of "Jerusalem 1: The First Cuneiform Tablet Found In Jerusalem"
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July 9, 2010
Welcome Roger Ebert Followers
Your abnormal interests in Jewish creationism is well on the way to making this the most frequently visited single day in the history of this blog. Rodger and fans, keep on tweeting and thanks for visiting my humble site. Please...Read all of "Welcome Roger Ebert Followers"
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July 8, 2010
Four Stone Hearth, Next In Order, Is Up
Go check out Four Stone Hearth # 96 at Testimony of the Spade. Magnus Reuterdahl has done a great job bringing this anthropology web carnival together. There are links to blogs I did not know of and there are wonderful...Read all of "Four Stone Hearth, Next In Order, Is Up"
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July 7, 2010
Kubaba
Kubaba is a new peer reviewed open access journal specializing in the Pre-Classical world of the Ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean. The Portuguese Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas - Universidade Nova de Lisboa publishes Kubaba. They accept papers...
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July 6, 2010
The Time Of My Life
The Global Arab Network is reporting on abnormally interesting work from Bronze and Iron Age strata at Tal al-Asharena in Syria. Archaeologists discovered lots of interesting domestic pottery in a Bronze Age mud brick building. Fun and potentially important stuff....Read all of "The Time Of My Life"
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July 4, 2010
Happy Fourth of July
If the 4th of July is your independence day, have an abnormally happy Independence Day. Shirley and I will be celebrating with her brother’s family. If the 4th of July is, for you, just the first Sunday in July this...Read all of "Happy Fourth of July"
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July 3, 2010
Temple Scroll Likely Created Near The Dead Sea
Normally I don’t have much to say about the Dead Sea Scrolls. But I do find this abnormally interesting. Antonio Lombatti reports that the “Qumran Scrolls were made in Qumran.” He provides a link to a report in Italian of...Read all of "Temple Scroll Likely Created Near The Dead Sea"
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July 2, 2010
Friday Night Gripe
Restaurant Surveys I’ve mentioned before that Shirley and I eat out more often than we eat at home. About twice a month, we eat at some upscale restaurant. About twice a month, we have fast, cheap, food. Is there a...Read all of "Friday Night Gripe"
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July 1, 2010
People Bought A Device That Supposedly Turned Tap Water Into Holy Water
A Korean professor, of what I did not know, has been selling a device that supposedly turned tap water into holy water. This holy water supposedly had some kind of medicinal property. According to the BBC, it looks like he...Read all of "People Bought A Device That Supposedly Turned Tap Water Into Holy Water "
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