Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Ancient Judaism and related matters around the blogosphere

ANCIENT JUDAISM and related matters around the blogosphere:

New dissertations in the field of Talmudic studies are listed by Shai Secunda at the Talmud Blog. Shai also has an interesting post on The Talmud in Arabic and More Epigraphical Rabbis.

Dorothy King's PhDiva blog has posts on Romulus: What Would Jews Say?; Early Images of the Crucifixion; and Every Tourist Goes to Masada -- Even 110 Years Ago.

AWOL: Open Access Library: Trismegistos:
Its core component is Trismegistos Texts, which includes papyrological and epigraphic texts, not only in Greek, Latin, and Egyptian in its various scripts (Demotic, hieroglyphic, hieratic and Coptic), but also in Meroitic, Aramaic, Arabic, Nabataean, Carian, and other languages (currently 121779 records). Most of the metadata are provided by partner projects, normally limited to texts in a certain language, on a type of writing surface (e.g. papyrus) or of a certain type (e.g. literary vs. documentary).
Larry Hurtado: Nomina Sacra in Early Graffiti (and a Mosaic).

Tony Burke has a post on Secret Mark and Hebrew Matthew at the Apocryphicity blog.

UPDATE: N.S. Gill: On This Day in Ancient History - A Sacking and an Eruption. I have more on the eruption of Vesuvius here and a view-from-my-window photo (just of Vesuvius, not the eruption) here. Plus photos of Pompeii here.

More from Dorothy King: Make Your Own Fake Lead Codex. It's what all the cool kids are doing.