AJR is happy to host publish remarks delivered as part of a review panel for Dr. Meredith J. C. Warren’s recent publication, Food and Transformation in Ancient Mediterranean Literature.
Read MoreAAR/SBL 2019 Review Panel | Moment of Reckoning
AJR is happy to host the the review panel on Dr. Ellen Muehlberger’s recent publication, Moment of Reckoning: Imagined Death and Its Consequences in Late Ancient Christianity.
Read MoreYear in Review: Top Ten Articles of 2019
Fragment from a mosaic featuring the months of the year, Image: © Ad Meskens / Wikimedia Commons
Fragment from a mosaic featuring the months of the year, Image: © Ad Meskens / Wikimedia Commons
As 2019 draws to a close, the editors of Ancient Jew Review want to thank our contributors and readers for a wonderful year!
Read MoreWeek in Review (11/1/19)
Roman mosaic depicting Thucydides | Third-century, from Jerash in Jordan; currently held in Berlin | Image Source
Roman mosaic depicting Thucydides | Third-century, from Jerash in Jordan; currently held in Berlin | Image Source
This Week: Rhetoric, doctrine, and Gregory of Nyssa, Decian persecution, archaeology and Paul, upcoming apocrypha, King David – and more!
Read MoreWeek in Review (10/11/19)
Illustration of Moses before Pharaoh | f.8r in the Syriac Bible of Paris (Bibliothèque Nationale, MS syr. 341) | Image Source
Illustration of Moses before Pharaoh | f.8r in the Syriac Bible of Paris (Bibliothèque Nationale, MS syr. 341) | Image Source
This Week: Apocalypse now, Pseudo-Matthew, imperial women and Lactantius, Allegro Qumran images online, Syriac teaching – and more!
Read MoreArt and Religion in Antiquity
These essays were part of a panel at the Society of Biblical Literature 2018 Annual Meeting reviewing Robin Jensen’s The Cross: History, Art and Controversy (2018) and Steven Fine’s The Menorah: From the Bible to Modern Israel (2016).
Read MoreWeek in Review (7/12/19)
Detail of a leopard from late antique synagogue mosaic | C4-6CE, restored at Maon-Nirim in the Negev | Image Source
Detail of a leopard from late antique synagogue mosaic | C4-6CE, restored at Maon-Nirim in the Negev | Image Source
This Week: Cross and Menorah Forum, Roman and post-Roman Syria, women on Wikipedia, rural Coptic education, Arab conquests – and more!
Read MoreWeek in Review (6/28/19)
Fresco depicting sacrifice to the lares | Wall painting from Pompeii, currently held in the Museo Archaeologico Nazionale in Naples | Image Source
Fresco depicting sacrifice to the lares | Wall painting from Pompeii, currently held in the Museo Archaeologico Nazionale in Naples | Image Source
This Week: Dancing Roman gods, theo-economics, rabbinic captivity, Coptic and Syriac resources online, gender in Jewish Studies – and more!
Read MoreWeek in Review (6/21/19)
Roman fresco of a boat | Originally from Pompeii, currently in the Boscoreale Museum | Image Source
Roman fresco of a boat | Originally from Pompeii, currently in the Boscoreale Museum | Image Source
This Week: Jewish origins, liturgical bodies at Qumran, pandemic, Nero’s fire, Gnosticism, 194 reliefs from Tell Halaf – and more!
Read MoreWeek in Review (6/14/19)
Dougga Banquet mosaic | Third-century Roman, from Dougga/Thugga in Tunisia | Image Source
Dougga Banquet mosaic | Third-century Roman, from Dougga/Thugga in Tunisia | Image Source
This Week: Enslaved leadership in early Christianity, ancient literature as media matrix, hyperphilology, pedagogy, eschatological gentiles – and more!
Read MoreWeek in Review (6/7/19)
Monumental menorah mosaic, probably from a synagogue | Third-century, Plovdiv/Philippopolis, in the Plovdic Regional Archaeological Museum | Image editor’s own
Monumental menorah mosaic, probably from a synagogue | Third-century, Plovdiv/Philippopolis, in the Plovdic Regional Archaeological Museum | Image editor’s own
This Week: Ancient Jewish graffiti, Animals and empire, medieval Enoch, Mesopotamian childhood, holy excrement – and more!
Read MoreWeek in Review (5/31/19)
Amarna Letter EA 362, Rib-Hadda to Pharaoh on the topic of murder | Cuneiform on clay, C14; currently held in the Louvre | Image Source
Amarna Letter EA 362, Rib-Hadda to Pharaoh on the topic of murder | Cuneiform on clay, C14; currently held in the Louvre | Image Source
This Week: Animality, panbabylonianism, Nero’s Domus Aurea, palimpsests, cultural heritage, genizah online – and more!
Read MoreWeek in Review (5/24/19)
The apostles at Pentecost, from a thirteenth-century Peshitta | State Library of Berlin, Sachau 304, MS 195 Bl., f.123v | Image Source
The apostles at Pentecost, from a thirteenth-century Peshitta | State Library of Berlin, Sachau 304, MS 195 Bl., f.123v | Image Source
This Week: Codex Bezae as plunder, Syriac cultural heritage, Tiburtine Sibyl, digital archaeology, the Seleucid invention of time – and more!
Read MoreTextual Objects and Material Philology
These essays were part of a panel at the Society of Biblical Literature 2018 Annual Meeting titled, “Textual Objects and Material Philology,” inspired in part by the publication of Snapshots of Evolving Traditions (eds. Lied and Lundhaug).
Read MoreWeek in Review (5/17/19)
Magic bowl with Aramaic inscription and (adorable) demon | C6/7, from Nippur, currently in the collection of the Met Museum | Image Source
Magic bowl with Aramaic inscription and (adorable) demon | C6/7, from Nippur, currently in the collection of the Met Museum | Image Source
This Week: The Song of Miriam, Dual Syriac/Uyghur prayerbooks, Syriac symposiums, Arshama’s Aramaic, the Doctrina Jacobi – and more!
Read MoreWeek in Review (10/5/19)
Roman gold and glass intaglio pendant | ca.C2-C3 CE, Northamptonshire (England) | Image Source
Roman gold and glass intaglio pendant | ca.C2-C3 CE, Northamptonshire (England) | Image Source
This Week: Tura papyri, engraved gemstones, epigraphy resources, Byzantium, circumcision and gender – and more!
Read MoreWeek in Review (4/19/19)
Early Christian catacomb painting | Third-century, Catacomb of Saint Calixte (Rome) | Image Source
Early Christian catacomb painting | Third-century, Catacomb of Saint Calixte (Rome) | Image Source
This Week: Jewish and Christian figural art, Jewish mothers, endangered archives, Bible versus Classics, Byzantine Balkans – and much more!
Read MoreWeek In Review (4/12/19)
Detail of the Madaba Map | Sixth-century, from the Church of St. George (Jordan) | Image Source
Detail of the Madaba Map | Sixth-century, from the Church of St. George (Jordan) | Image Source
This Week: Imperialism and Christian knowledge, beeswax, bioarchaeology, biblical papyri, the Madaba Map – and more!
Read MoreWeek in Review (4/5/19)
Encaustic wall painting from Sòlunto, Sicily | Currently held in the Museo archaeologico regionale di Palermo (Italy) | Image Source
Encaustic wall painting from Sòlunto, Sicily | Currently held in the Museo archaeologico regionale di Palermo (Italy) | Image Source
This Week: Bible beyond “Old Testament,” midrash, Sogdians online, pigment in antiquity, amethyst-mining inscriptions – and more!
Read MoreWeek in Review (3/29/19)
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Mosaic medallion of a chained lion and Dionysius | From Pompeii, currently held in the Naples National Archaeological Museum | Image Source
Mosaic medallion of a chained lion and Dionysius | From Pompeii, currently held in the Naples National Archaeological Museum | Image Source
This Week: Unexpected animals, Latin Christian exegesis, fingerprinting and bioarchaeology, multispectral Torah, Jews in Iraq – and more!
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