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Forthcoming from Oxford University Press - The Oxford Handbook of the Dead Sea Scrolls edited by Timothy Lim and John Collins. With a Dec 2...

In a move that has DSS dilettantes everywhere bursting with excitement, the Israel Antiquities Authority has announced a partnership with G...

Michael Wise Michael Wise, master of ancient languages and my first Hebrew and Latin teacher, was interviewed by The Catholic Spirit ab...

The understatement of the day comes from National Geographic News  in an article about their upcoming documentary on the Dead Sea Scrolls. I...

John J. Collins Beyond the Qumran Community: The Sectarian Movement of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Wm. B. Eerdmans , 2010 A few months ago ,...

I had the opportunity a couple of weeks ago to see the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit at the Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul. Last week...

I’ve been catching up on episodes of the NT Pod over the past week or so. I have to say that I’ve really enjoyed Mark ’s series on the Syno...

My two year blog anniversary came and went a month ago. In recognition of that event, I’m posting links to some favorite posts from 2009. Th...

The current issue of the Smithsonian magazine (Jan 2010) has a long article about the Dead Sea Scrolls and the archaeology of Qumran. Despi...

My first Hebrew professor and undergraduate mentor, Michael Wise, is profiled in the current issue of Northwestern College's Pilot . ...

Biblical scholarship now operates with a few defining consensuses. Questioning the consensus can be okay. Overturning the consensus is nearl...

I admit that I'm not really a fan of the full 8 volume Dictionary of Classical Hebrew, but this new abridgement looks genuinely useful....

The West Semitic Research project headed by Bruce Zuckerman at the University of Southern California has received a nice write-up in the LA ...

So far, I think only wisdom literature and Psalms are likely to be consistently relevant in single-verse random snippets. The Latter Prophet...

Michael Bird and Craig Keener have an excellent article on the SBL forum about why we need "generalist" scholars in biblical stu...

Anything related to the Dead Sea Scrolls seems to be an instant winner with the media. There is a high level of public interest in the topi...

[N.B. This post contains links to all the blog posts that I have come across regarding Rachel Elior and the Essenes.] Rachel Elior’s theory...

Two news stories came to my attention today dealing with the Dead Sea Scrolls. Now I've always thought the connections between the De...

[Via DoveNews: Hebrew Bible List] Eshel, Hanan David Louvish, Aryeh Amihay (trans) The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Hasmonean State (Wm. B. ...