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CONTENTS
MEMORABLE PALEOJUDAICA POSTS
ANCIENT TEXTS ONLINE
BOOKS AND THESES/DISSERTATIONS ONLINE
COURSE SYLLABI (ALPHABETICAL BY LAST NAME OF INSTRUCTOR)
COURSES ONLINE (ALPHABETICAL BY LAST NAME OF INSTRUCTOR - SOME FOR CREDIT, SOME NOT)
IRAQI ANTIQUITES INFORMATION
JOURNALS ONLINE
LANGUAGE RESOURCES
MUSEUM EXHIBITS
SCHOLARLY ORGANIZATIONS AND SOCIETIES
PERSONAL WEBSITES
VARIOUS RESOURCE PAGES OF PALEOJUDAIC INTEREST
WEBLOGS AND REGULARLY UPDATED NEWS SITES
ARTICLES, CONFERENCE PAPERS, AND BOOK REVIEWS BY JAMES R. DAVILA ONLINE

MEMORABLE PALEOJUDAICA POSTS
(Make sure also to follow the updates forward for the rest of the discussion.)
Maybe Judas was Really a Baddy in the Gospel of Judas (10/1/06)
From Vindolanda Near Hadrian's Wall (8/13/06)
The Minimus Latin Textbook for Children (8/9/06)
Neil Altman's Bogus Scholarship (6/9/06
Da Vinci Code Review (the Movie) (5/23/06)
Fabricius's 18th Century Pseudepigrapha Edition (5/15/06)
Da Vinci Code Review (the Novel) (3/1/06)
Gnosticism Scholar Robin Wilson's 90th Birthday Party (12/19/06)
On the Phoenician Giant Og (12/5/05, two posts)
The Cats of Mount Athos (11/30/05)
The Eruption of Vesuvius (8/24/05)
Historical and Archaeological Evidence for the First ("Solomonic") Temple (8/12/05)
Historical and Archaeological Evidence for the Herodian and Second Temples (8/11/05)
The More Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Project receives a major grant (7/30/05)
Wish List of Lost Books (7/20/05, multiple posts)
On the Historicity of the Gospels (7/13/05)
What is Consensus?(7/13/05)
On Inciting Religious Hatred (proposed law in Britain) (6/27/05
On Jews for Jesus (6/23/05)
Book Note: Richard A. Freund, Secrets of the Cave of Letters: Rediscovering a Dead Sea Mystery (6/14/05)
Reflections on MIT's Time Traveler Convention (5/9/05)
The AUT's Boycott of Israeli Universities (4/20/05)
"The 'How to Read a Scholarly Paper' Discussion..." (12/18/04)
"Philo or the Pseudepigrapha?" (12/6/04)
"Kabbalah 'Expert' Interview: Rabbi Yehuda Berg..." (5/29/04)
"Review of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ" (4/24/04)
"Abortion and the Torah" (3/15/04)
"Thoughts on Freedman's Article: Might the 'Jehoash Inscription' be genuine after all?" (3/5/04)
"Yet More Mel" (the beginning of the discussion of Moses' Horns) (2/19/04)
"Leviticus and the Gay Marriage Debate" (12/11/03)
"More on Mel and the Passion" (Frank Rich's Dowdification of Gibson) (8/5/03)
Was Jesus Married to Mary Magdalene? (8/4/03)
"I Videotaped Stigmata Last Week..." (6/28/03)
"About That Hague Convention" (6/22/03)
"When Scholars Cry Wolf" (6/14/03)
"Jewish Incantation Bowls from Iraq" (3/26/03)
"Saddam and Nebuchadnezzar" (3/24/03)

ANCIENT TEXTS ONLINE
Aleppo Codex (images, requires Flash)
Aleppo Codex (transcription)
APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System)
Babatha Archive (Perseus Digital Library)
Early Christian Writings (Peter Kirby)
Early Church Fathers
Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri
Parallel Aligned Hebrew and Greek Jewish Scriptures (CATSS)
Inscriptifact: An Image Database of Inscriptions and Artifacts
Inscriptions from the Land of Israel Ancient Jewish Accounts of Jesus (Alan Humm)
Early Jewish Writings (Peter Kirby)
Louis Ginzberg's Legends of the Jews
The Corpus Hermeticum (old translation of the Latin version)
Great Isaiah Scroll Directory
Josephus-Project, Institutum Judaicum Delitzschianum (includes German translation of Contra Apionem)
Texts of Judaism (Internet Sacred Texts Archive)
Leningrad Codex (transcription)
Traditions of Magic in Late Antiquity
Writings of Maimonides: Manuscripts and Early Printed Editions (JNUL)
The University of Michigan Papyrus Collection
Old Greek Variant Files (CATSS)
The Open Scrolls Project (Peter Kirby)
Oxyrhynchus Online
The Perseus Digital Library
Philo of Alexandria, works of (Yonge translation)
Philon-Project, Institutum Judaicum Delitzschianum (includes German translation of QG book 1)
Online Critical Pseudepigrapha Project
Pseudo-Philo, Biblical Antiquities (M. R. James's translation, Internet Sacred Texts Archive) Internet Sacred Text Archive
The Revised Standard Version of the Bible at the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia.
The New English Translation of the Septuagint Project
Morphologically Analyzed Septuagint (CATSS)
Septuagint Resources
Aramaic Targum to the Psalms (translated by Edward M. Cook)
Aramaic Targum of the Song of Songs (English translation by Jay Treat)
Song of Songs Interpretation Samples (Alan Humm)
The Syriac Peshitta
Babylonian Talmud (Bavli; about a third of the text in translation)
Babylonian Talmud in Hebrew (Vilna edition, .gif format)
A Page from the Babylonian Talmud (Eliezer Segal)
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
Zenon Papyri (Michigan Papyrus website)
Zenon Papyri (Perseus Digital Library)
The Zohar (Aramaic critical text behind Daniel Matt's translation)

BOOKS AND THESES/DISSERTATIONS ONLINE
Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley, The Mandaeans - Ancient Texts and Modern People (OUP)
Mary Douglas, Leviticus as Literature (OUP)
J. K. Elliott. The Apocryphal New Testament - A Collection of Apocryphal Christian Literature in an English Translation (OUP)
Michael Fishbane, Biblical Interpretation in Ancient Israel (OUP)
Christine E. Hayes, Gentile Impurities and Jewish Identities - Intermarriage and Conversion from the Bible to the Talmud (OUP)
Martin S. Jaffee, Torah in the Mouth - Writing and Oral Tradition in Palestinian Judaism, 200 BCE - 400 CE (OUP)
Deborah W. Rooke, Zadok's Heirs - The Role and Development of the High Priesthood in Ancient Israel (OUP)
Marie Noonan Sabin, Reading Mark as Theology in the Context of Early Judaism (OUP)
Sacha Stern, Calendar and Community - A History of the Jewish Calendar, 2nd Century BCE to 10th Century CE (OUP)
John L. Thompson, Writing the Wrongs - Women of the Old Testament among Biblical Commentators from Philo through the Reformation (OUP)
John Van Seters, A Law Book for the Diaspora - Revision in the Study of the Covenant Code (OUP)
H. G. M. Williamson, The Book Called Isaiah - Deutero-Isaiah's Role in Composition and Redaction (OUP)
Lawrence M. Wills, Ancient Jewish Novels - An Anthology (OUP)
Willem-Jan de Witt, "Expectations and the Expected One: 4Q521 and the Light It Sheds on the New Testament"

COURSE SYLLABI (ALPHABETICAL BY LAST NAME OF INSTRUCTOR)
TH 9990, Dead Sea Scrolls
Professor George Brooke
University of Manchester
Ashland Theological Seminary
Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible
Professor: Daniel Falk
University of Oregon
Durham University
RELIGION 205: The Emergence of Judaism
Professor Ronald C. Kiener
Department of Religion, Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut
Haverford College
Inscriptions from Biblical Times: HEBR 428 (University of Washington, Prof. Scott B. Noegel)
RELS 3000: Jewish Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha
RELS 3000: Rewriting the Book of Genesis
RELS 4107: Varieties of Early Judaism
Dr. John C. Reeves
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Religious Studies 361: Post-Biblical Judaism
Professor Eliezer Segal
RLS 307: THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS
Professor: David W. Suter
Saint Martin's College
The Dead Sea Scrolls
Prof. Tyler F. Williams
Taylor University College
ANE 3117 THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS: THE INTER-TESTAMENTAL PERIOD
Professor Tzvee Zahavy
University of Minnesota

COURSES ONLINE (ALPHABETICAL BY LAST NAME OF INSTRUCTOR - SOME FOR CREDIT, SOME NOT)
St. Andrews Dead Sea Scrolls Web Pages
St. Andrews Divine Mediator Figures in the Biblical World Web Pages
St. Andrews Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Web Pages
James R. Davila
Theology: Textual History and Textual Criticism of the Old Testament (Leiden University)
B243 Old Testament Pseudepigrapha
B451 Introduction to the Dead Sea Scrolls
B461 Apocalyptic Literature
Dr. Jim West, the Quartz Hill School of Theology

IRAQI ANTIQUITES INFORMATION
IraqCrisis e-mail discussion list (archived)
The Iraqi Jewish Archive Preservation Report
2003 Iraq War & Archaeology site (Francis Deblauwe)
The Iraq Museum in Baghdad
The Oriental Institute's Lost Treasures From Iraq website

JOURNALS ONLINE
American Journal of Archaeology
Antiquity Aram (tables of contents only)
Aramaic Studies (tables of contents and abstracts)
Archaeology Magazine
Australian Biblical Review (tables of contents and book reviews only)
Biblica
Biblical Theology Bulletin
Biblical Interpretation: A Journal of Contemporary Approaches (requires paid personal or institutional subscription)
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (tables of contents only)
Dead Sea Discoveries (requires paid personal or institutional subscription)
Denver Journal
Henoch (index of published volumes)
Ioudaios Review
Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies
Journal for the Study of Judaism (requires paid personal or institutional subscription)
Journal for the Study of the New Testament (requires paid personal or institutional subscription)
Journal for the Study of the Old Testament (requires paid personal or institutional subscription)
Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha (tables of contents and abstracts only)
Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Journal of the American Oriental Society (tables of contents only)
Journal of Biblical Literature (requires paid membership and password)
Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism
Journal of Hebrew Scriptures
Journal of Near Eastern Studies
Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages
Journal of Semitic Studies (requires paid subscription)
Journal of Theological Studies (requires paid personal or institutional subscription)
Neotestamentica (contents, abstacts, sample articles & reviews)
New Testament Studies (requires paid subscription)
Novum Testamentum (requires paid personal or institutional subscription)
Review of Biblical Literature
Revue Biblique (tables of contents and abstracts only)
Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament (requires paid personal or institutional subscription)
Studia Philonica Annual Website (basic info only, no tables of contents or articles)
TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism
Vetus Testamentum (requires paid personal or institutional subscription)
Vigiliae Christianae (requires paid personal or institutional subscription)
Zeitschrift f_r die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft
Zeitschrift f_r Papyrologie und Epigrafik (1999-2001)

LANGUAGE RESOURCES
Aramaic Discussion List
Aramaic links from Languages on the Web.com
The Assyrian Aramaic Language website
The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon

Coptic Language Page

"Biblia Hebraica (Biblical Hebrew - Home)"
Welcome to Basics of Biblical Hebrew Online. (by Gary Pratico and Miles V. Van Pelt)
The Jewish Language Research Website

English to Greek Liddell and Scott Lexicon
Database of Septuagint Greek
The Open Text.org Project (Greek texts and grammar)

English to Latin Lewis and Short Lexicon

Old Church Slavonic Online

The Syriac Peshitta

PERSONAL WEB PAGES
Meir Bar-Ilan's Home Page
Robert A. Kraft's Home Page
Annette Yoshiko Reed's Judaism Page
Mahlon Smith's Virtual Religion Network
Joe E. Zias

SCHOLARLY ORGANIZATIONS AND SOCIETIES
American Society of Papyrologists
Aram Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies website
Association for Jewish Studies
Biblical Archaeology Society
British Association for Jewish Studies
British New Testament Society
European Association for Jewish Studies
The International Organization of Qumran Studies
The International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies
Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins
Society of Biblical Literature
Society for Old Testament Study
Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas

VARIOUS RESOURCE PAGES OF PALEOJUDAIC INTEREST
ABZU: a guide to information related to the study of the Ancient Near East on the Web
Ancient Jewish Oil Lamps (Frank Egan)
Ancient Judaism (History Net)
ANE (Ancient Near East discussion list; now defunct, but archived)
Associations, Synagogues and Congregations (Philip A. Harland)
BiBIL (Biblical Bibliography of Lasaunne)
300 Dead Sea Scrolls Links (quality varies)
The Dead Sea Scrolls and Other Hebrew Manuscripts Project (University of Chicago)
The Dinur Center for Research in Jewish History
Eagle Vision of 4 Ezra (Kevin P. Edgecomb)
The Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism Web Page of the Society of Biblical Literature
ETANA-Abzu-news list
G-Megillot (Dead Sea Scrolls discussion list)
Gnostic Society Library website
Hexapla Project
Hugoye-list (e-mail list for the academic study of Syriac)
Institut fur neutestamentliche Textforschung (INTF)
The Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts
Institutum Judaicum Delitzschianum
Into His Own: Perspectives on the World of Jesus (Mahlon Smith)
Israel's Story in Maps
Ioudaios-L (e-mail discussion list on first-century Judaism - archived)
Jerusalem through Coins (Sandy Brenner)
Jewish National and University Library Web Page
The Jerusalem Perspective Website (requires paid subscription to access most articles, but some are free)
The Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Mysticism, Web Page for the Interdisciplinary Seminar on (Alexander Golitzin, Marquette University)
The Lilith Page (Alan Humm)
Livius Page on First Century Judaism (contains many short articles)
Judas Maccabeus on the Web (Tim Spalding)
The Menorah Coin Project
Midrash Bibliography (HUC-JIR)
The More Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Project
New Testament Gateway (Mark Goodacre)
The Handbook of Biblical Numismatics (Mel Wacks)
The Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Qumran Science by Topic (Jan Gunneweg)
RAMBI (Index to Articles on Jewish Studies - incredibly useful)
The Revadim ("Layers") program of Talmud study
The St. Shenouda the Archimandrite Coptic Society Web Page
The Sch_yen Collection of Manuscripts (many of paleojudaic interest)
Septuagint Resources
Sights and Sounds of the Song of Songs (Jay Treat)
The Ten Sephirot (Eliezer Segal)
Commentary on the Septuagint Project
Septuaginta Deutsch
Taylor-Schechter Unit Home Page (Cairo Geniza)
Textual Criticism Discussion List
THEOLDI: Documentation of Theological and Interdisciplinary Literature
TLG-L, An archived e-mail discussion lists for users of the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
Torrey Seland's Resource Pages for Biblical Studies
Torrey Seland: Page One: Bible texts, translations and related texts
Torrey Seland: Page Two: Biblical Studies Electronically Published
Torrey Seland: Page Three: Aspects of the Mediterranean Social World
Torrey Seland: The Philo of Alexandria Page
Torrey Seland: Discussion Board
Tyndale Tech E-mail Archive
Bibliography of Ugaritic Grammar and Biblical Hebrew Grammar in the Twentieth Century (Mark S. Smith)
The West Semitic Research Project

WEBLOGS AND REGULARLY UPDATED NEWS SITES
Ancient/Classical History (HistoryNet.com Guidesite with N. S. Gill)
Apocryphicity (Tony Chartrand-Burke)
Archaeologica News
Archaeology Magazine News
Archaeology Online Blog (Anita Cohen-Williams)
Arts & Letters Daily
Bible and Interpretation News
The Busybody (Loren Rosson et al.)
Codex (Tyler F. WIlliams)
The Coding Humanist (Eric Sowell)
Christian Origins Blog (Peter Kirby)
Cronaca (David Nishimura)
Deinde News
Explorator (David Meadows)
Hagahot
Hebrew and Aramaic Philology (Shai Hejman)
Higgaion (Chris Heard)
Hypotyposeis (Stephen C. Carlson)
Macintosh Biblioblog (Joe Weaks)
Museum Guru Blog (Anita Cohen-Williams)
Mystical Politics (Rebecca Lesses)
National Geographic News
Nature Archaeology Update
NT Gateway Weblog (Mark Goodacre)
Philo of Alexandria Blog (Torrey Seland)
Qumranica (Davila - now on indefinite hiatus)
Ralph the Sacred River (Edward Cook)
Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean Blog (Philip Harland)
Ricoblog (Rick Brannan)
Rogue Classicism (David Meadows)
SciTech Daily Review
The Stuff of Earth (Michael Palin)
Targuman (Christian Brady)
Thoughts on Antiquity (Chris Weimer)
Zhubert

ARTICLES, CONFERENCE PAPERS, AND BOOK REVIEWS BY JAMES R. DAVILA ONLINE
Review of Andrei A. Orlov, The Enoch-Metatron Tradition (Review of Biblical Literature, December 2006)
"The Hekhalot Literature and the Ancient Jewish Apocalypses" (SBL, November 2006)
"'Scripture' as Prophetically Revealed Writings" (SBL, November 2006)
"More Christian Apocrypha" (Ottawa Workshop on Christian Apocrypha, September-October 2006)
"More Jewish Pseudepigrapha" (International SBL, July 2006)
Enter the Bibliobloggers(SBL, November 2005)
"The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha as Background to the New Testament" (Expository Times 117.2:53-57 (November, 2005, requires paid personal or institutional subscription to access)
(How) Can We Tell if a Greek Apocryphon or Pseudepigraphon has been Translated from Hebrew or Aramaic? (JSP 15 (2005): 3-61, (requires paid personal or institutional subscription to access)
"Assimilated to the Blogosphere: Blogging Ancient Judaism" (SBL Forum, April 2005)
"Astrology and the Descenders to the Chariot" (PSCO, SBL, November 2004)
"The Odes of Isaiah: A Newly Discovered Syriac Pseudepigraphon - A Thought Experiment" (BNTC, September 2004)
"Ritual in the Old Testament Apocrypha," (Symposium on Anthropology and the Old Testament, Glasgow University, June 2004)
"The Apocalypse of Daniel: A Newly Discovered Syriac Pseudepigraphon - A Thought Experiment" (IOQS, July 2004)
"Did Christians Write Old Testament Pseudepigrapha That Appear to Be Jewish?" (Intnl. SBL, July 2004)
"Is the Story of Zosimus Really a Jewish Composition?" (SBL, November 2003)
"The Rechabites in Patristic and Parabiblical Literature" (SBL, November 2003)
"Ritual in the Jewish Pseudepigrapha" (Symposium on Anthropology and Biblical Studies, St. Mary's College, June 2003)
"(How) Can We Tell if a Pseudepigraphon Has Been Translated from Hebrew or Aramaic?" (International SBL, July 2003)
"Enochians, Essenes, and Qumran Essenes" (summary of paper; Second Enoch Seminar, Venice, July 2003)
"The Animal Apocalypse and Daniel" (handout here; further thoughts here; Second Enoch Seminar, Venice, July 2003)
"Jewish Pseudepigrapha and Christian Apocrypha: (How) Can We Tell Them Apart?" (BNTC, September 2002)
"Enoch in Cyberspace: The Internet Meets the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha" (Computers and Texts 15 [August, 1997] 8-10)
"Melchizedek, Michael, and War in Heaven" (SBLSP 1996)
Review essay on Massekhet Hekhalot--Traktat von den himmlischen Pal_sten, by Klaus Hermann (Ioudaios Review vol. 5.014; October 1995)
"Dialectology in Biblical Hebrew: A North Israelite Dialect? Synchronic and Diachronic Considerations" (SBL, November 1994)
"The Hekhalot Literature and Shamanism" (SBLSP 1994)
Review essay on Ascent to Heaven in Jewish and Christian Apocalypses, by Martha Himmelfarb (Ioudaios Review vol. 4.017; August 1994)