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Sad News: Anson Rainey

Hardy — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 20:59:03 +0000

The ASOR blog has reported the news that after a brief illness Professor Rainey passed away today, February 19, 2011, at the age of 81.

ז״ל May his memory be for a blessing.

Goldwasser on the Proto-Sinaitic Alphabet

Hardy — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:12:29 +0000

This BAR article is a nice summary of her 2006 Egypt and the Levant article: "Canaanites Reading Hieroglyphs: Horus is Hathor? – The Invention of the Alphabet in Sinai."

BASOR 356 Article

Hardy — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:16:12 +0000

Some of you may be interested in a short article in the most recent Bulletin of American Schools of Oriental Research entitled, "Two New Inscriptions from Zincirli and Its Environs" (Table of Contents). Others (who are not related to me) will find the other articles by the Zincirli excavation team more to your liking, including Pardee's editio princeps.

Be sure to check out BASOR 356, it is a great edition put together by Jim Weinstein dedicated to the recent finds of the Oriental Institute expedition, most notably the "Kuttamuwa" (KTMW) inscription.

(The back story may be found here, here, and here.)

UPenn NELC is…

Hardy — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:00:11 +0000

"not accepting graduate applications for Biblical Studies and Rabbinics/Classical Judaism for Fall 2010."

http://www.sas.upenn.edu/nelc/Content/appinfotempl.htm

Tell Tayinat Archive

Hardy — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:09:12 +0000

Exciting News from Tim Harrison's dig at Tell Tayinat. The University of Toronto news is reporting:

Excavations led by a University of Toronto archaeologist at the site of a recently discovered temple in southeastern Turkey have uncovered a cache of cuneiform tablets dating back to the Iron Age period between 1200 and 600 BCE. Found in the temple's cella, or 'holy of holies', the tablets are part of a possible archive that may provide insights into Assyrian imperial aspirations.

Photo: J. Jackson

Several articles on the temple were posted earlier in the summer before the season began.

New Link Added

Hardy — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 14:50:10 +0000

http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/

(Tyler Williams also informs us of the Codex Sinaiticus Conference to be held at the British Library, London, on 6-7 July 2009.)

Publishing

Hardy — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:14:15 +0000

Charles at Awilum discusses the ubiquitous question of "What Journal Should I Publish In?"

Golb on “The Origins of the Dead Sea Scrolls”

Hardy — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:17:46 +0000

An excerpted article (from the Fathom Archive) from his Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls?

A link to a link…

Hardy — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:01:16 +0000

ChristianColleges.com has posted the Top 100 Theology Blogs. (DailyHebrew.com squeaked in at #96 just one slot above Tyler's Codex!)

In the news:

Hardy — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:59:52 +0000

A proposed NYC Public Hebrew School.

Nearly two years after a wave of protests over New York City’s first public school dedicated to the Arabic language and culture, state education officials are expected to consider greenlighting a Hebrew-language charter school in Brooklyn this week.