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Stanford University recently unveiled ORBIS, a site that lets you calculate the time and cost required to travel by road or ship around the Roman world in A.D. 200. It takes into account a lot of factors—my favorite is that it models ancient sea routes based on historical sources and wave height.
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"A clay cylinder covered in Akkadian cuneiform script, damaged and broken, the Cyrus Cylinder is a powerful symbol of religious tolerance and multi-culturalism. Delete the scoop?
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James D. Tabor - From #Jew to #Gentile?
Scholars and church leaders have claimed over the centuries that the apostle Paul advocated a complete departure from Jewish practice within the New Testament Church. Today, that consensus is changing. Delete the scoop?
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A mysterious, circular structure, with a diameter greater than the length of a Boeing 747 jet, has been discovered submerged about 30 feet (9 meters) underneath the Sea of Galilee in Israel.
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A mysterious, circular structure, with a diameter greater than the length of a Boeing 747 jet, has been discovered submerged about 30 feet (9 meters) underneath the Sea of Galilee in Israel.
Scientists first made the discovery by accident in 2003 using sonar to survey the bottom of the lake but published their findings only recently. Delete the scoop?
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A Cyber-Archaeology expedition at Petra provided insights on structural conservation and the next generation of archaeological data presentation.
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(From the article): A recent two-day Cyber-Archaeology expedition at Petra provided new insights on the site’s structural conservation and helped create the next generation of archaeological data presentation. Delete the scoop?
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In a new book, The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Biography, religious scholar and author John J. Collins tells the history of the scrolls and the controversies they have prompted, and explores the questions they ask and answer about Judeo-Christian history.
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The article and interview are interesting. However, I found that the comments from readers to be especially intriquing. One points out one of the flawas in the work of John Collins:
"This interview accepted too uncritically the standard story that the Dead Sea Scrolls are relics of an Essene community living in Qumran. This story is controversial. The alternative story is that the Qumran remains represent a military camp, not Essenes, and that the Scrolls represent a wide collection of documents from the personal libraries of lots of people trying to save them in troubled political times. If this alternative view is true, then the Scrolls cannot be expected to present a unified point of view, but rather show us a spectrum of beliefs in the society over the course of several hundred years." Delete the scoop?
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The Western world's obsession with work has a long history. But on what is it founded?
Are we too leisure oriented, or is our cyber world turning us into workaholics? Has technology brought lasting benefits to workers? Should employment cut so deeply into personal time and family life? These and other questions arise often and illustrate the controversy that surrounds what we do most: work. To understand why we face such issues today, it’s helpful to rehearse some recent history to uncover the roots of our modern concept of work. 
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February 14, 6:59 AM
(From the article): As secularism became an important aspect of American society alongside religion, it contributed to the nation’s growing pluralistic culture.
Today the tension is about which worldview should dominate public life. Humanists pursue the marginalization of religious values, while the religiously inclined, and particularly those with strong Calvinistic roots, believe all private and public activity should be governed by sacred values. Nevertheless, for most, the connection between work and a person’s calling has been severed. Work in today’s cultural setting is firmly attached to secular values. Delete the scoop?
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In this Seedbed interview, Dr. Ben Witherington speaks with Dr. Richard Bauckham about the book of Revelation. Delete the scoop?
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Judeo-Christian thinking based on the Bible underpins Western society. Yet today, few know or understand what the Bible says. Is it still relevant? Delete the scoop?
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This series of articles by David Hulme studies the disciples of Jesus and the founding of what is often called the first christian church. Delete the scoop?
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Google has rolled out a rather substantial Street View update this morning, covering hundreds of towns in Israel and updating various other cities across the world. Some of the highlights include the Sea of Galilee, the Western Wall and the Bet She'an National Park.
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The absence of men in churches is not a new phenomenon. Several scholars and church leaders have noticed and addressed the trend.
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(From the article): The absence of men in churches is not a new phenomenon, nor is it confined to a few English-speaking nations. The trend has been commonly observed and accepted as unremarkable throughout the Western world. But why? Are men just less “religious” than women? Less easily persuaded? More logically minded and therefore less easily convinced? Delete the scoop?
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If you plan to visit Jerusalem in 2013, you should go to the Israel Museum and see what promises to be a fascinating exhibition on King Herod the Great that will run from February till October. CNN put up an interesting video about the exhibit: Via Rob J Hyndman
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The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) is very proud to present the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library, a free online digitized virtual library of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Hundreds of manuscripts made up of thousands of fragments – discovered from 1947 and until the early 1960’s in the Judean Desert along the western shore of the Dead Sea – are now available to the public online. The high resolution images are extremely detailed and can be accessed through various search options on the site.
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This is a fascinating resource for anyone interested in the Dead Seas Scrolls. Delete the scoop?
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May 22, 8:39 PM
An excellent interactive graphical display of Bible translation. Delete the scoop?
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sraeli archaeologists have discovered a quarry from the Herodian period north of the Old City of Jerusalem. The quarry was revealed in the course of construction of Highway 21. Via Rob J Hyndman
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Israeli archaeologists have discovered a quarry from the Herodian period north of the Old City of Jerusalem. The quarry was revealed in the course of construction of Highway 21. The IAA press releasedescribes the results of the excavation. Delete the scoop?
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The Arch of Titus Project will have important significance for the study of Roman architecture, as no monument of the Flavian period has yet been subjected to pigmentation analysis to reveal its original coloration. It is also projected to be of great importance for the study of the appearance of the sacred vessels of the Second Temple in the first century CE, as well as of the Herodian building projects in ancient Judaea, especially King Herod’s rebuilding of the Second Temple in the first century CE. Via Rob J Hyndman
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(From the article): Prof. Steven Fine noted that in the first presentation at the upcoming April 4 Kennes Torah Umadda (Congress of Torah and Science) in Jerusalem he will be discussing — for the first time in Israel — the discoveries made by the Arch of Titus Digital Restoration Project last summer and the implications of advances in the study of polychromy for the study of the arch (and of Jewish visual culture in general). Delete the scoop?
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The Israel Museum’s exhibit Herod the Great—The King’s Final Journey guides visitors through the Herodian world and the end of the illustrious king’s life, as brought to light by the late archaeologist Ehud Netzer.
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(From the article): An extraordinary archaeological exhibit opened on February 12 at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. It marks the journeys of two men separated by 2,000 years. One journey was the funeral procession of King Herod the Great—feared, hated and lionized—whose monumental works still mark the landscape of Israel; the other journey was the life work of renowned Israeli archaeologist Ehud Netzer, who described Herod as “a king who lived and breathed the art of construction, deeply understood its ways and, quite simply, loved to build.” In fact, one might fairly say that Netzer himself lived and breathed the man and the works of Herod. Delete the scoop?
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The exhibition offers a glimpse in to the palace of King Herod (centre bottom), including his bath (top left) and a bust of the Roman Emperor who ruled at the time (right). Via Rob J Hyndman
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(From the article): The private household of King Herod has been laid bare in a new exhibition being held at a museum in Israel. Herod the Great: The King's Final Journey at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem features exhibits that offer an intriguing glimpse into the home life of the divisive figure, including his bath and the decorations that adorned his palace. The 250 artifacts were excavated over a period of 40 years at Herodium, the builder-king's excavated palace on an arid hilltop a short drive from Jerusalem. Delete the scoop?
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Collection, worth £1.2 million significant historical resource of manuscripts in Arabic and Hebrew dated from ninth century. Via Peter Nathan 
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add this to the Taylor-Schenker Collection in Cambridge and the majority of the Genizah is back together in one place. Delete the scoop?
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Religious faiths of all descriptions have something to say about an afterlife, with most teaching that as humans we possess an immortal soul.
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(From the article): Most religions teach that after death, a soul within us leaves the body and lives on for eternity. Many people assume it is also a biblical belief, but is it? What exactly is the history of this idea? Delete the scoop?
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This series covers the section of Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures known as the Law,Prophets and Writings. Delete the scoop?
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In this series, David Hulme examines the life and teachings of Jesus as recorded in the Gospels and discusses their relevance to the modern world. Delete the scoop?
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It is possible to use the Red Sea to replenish the shrinking Dead Sea, the World Bank has determined after years of studying whether such a connecting lifeline could work.
The idea of linking the two bodies of water has been around for more than a century, but the project took on a new urgency when the shore of the Dead Sea was found to be receding at a rate of more than one meter (3.3 feet) every year.
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(From the article): The Dead Sea, technically a lake, is a tourist spot famous for its salty waters that allow bathers to float. Its mineral rich mud, used for skin treatment, is sold around the world.
But as the population increased in the region, water was diverted from the Jordan river, the Dead Sea's natural water source, for drinking and agriculture. Delete the scoop?
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The finds, dated to the early monarchic period and including pottery figurines of men and horses, provide rare testimony of a ritual cult in the Jerusalem region at the beginning of the period of the monarchy. Via Peter Nathan
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Rare evidence of the religious practices and rituals in the early days of the Kingdom of Judah has recently been discovered at Tel Motza, to the west of Jerusalem. Delete the scoop?
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It's long been known that Jesus was not born in 1 AD, nor was he born on December 25th. Tradition has had a major influence on many religious practices. But is tradition a reliable guide to truth?
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When it comes to the Bible, how much do we get right? Delete the scoop?
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Leen Ritmeyer' blog: "Renovation work is being carried out in the north of the Temple Mount. Large blue drapes cover part of the Antonia Rockscarp and razor-sharp barbed wire has closed off the area." He suggests the location where Paul addressed the people in Acts 22 Delete the scoop?
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