Simcha Gross
Twitter Web App : The new Getty is Celebrating 25 Years site which provides an in depth and magnificent digital tour of Persepolis is absolutely stunning. Incredible teaching aid.
Check it out!
persepolis.getty.edu/?fbclid=IwAR0O…
Simcha Gross
Bio Assistant Professor of Ancient Jewish History @Penn @UPennNELC.
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Dr. Annette Yoshiko Reed
Twitter for iPhone : Video now online of my talk on “Forgetting Second Temple Judaism: History, Memory, and the Dead Sea Scrolls,” for the 58th Annual Simon Rawidowicz Memorial Lecture at Brandeis ensemble.brandeis.edu/hapi/v1/conten…
Simcha Gross
Twitter for iPhone : One of the most important social historians of the rabbis, who served as an critical counterweight to the minimalist turn in the field!
Andrew Jac🌼bs | Demystification *and* History |
Twitter Web App : hey, hey, looks like my chapters for the CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO ANTISEMITISM exist, at least digitally.
here's #1:
cambridge.org/core/books/abs…
Simcha Gross
Twitter Web App : In 30 minutes!
Jen Baird
Twitter Web App : What are we looking at when we're looking at ancient Jewish and Christian paintings from #DuraEuropos , and how have we come to be looking at them? In Berlin to try and give an answer.
Simcha Gross
Twitter Web App : Disheartening experience conforming to the SBL Handbook of Style and realizing how, despite the growing interest in Achaemenid-era contexts, on the one hand, & reception history, on the other, there are almost no abbreviations provided for journals dedicated to Persian or Arabic.
Christian Sahner
Twitter Web App : Ancient and medieval Zoroastrianism is famous for the practice of 'xwēdōdah,' that is, close-kin or incestuous marriage. As far as I'm aware, the first documentary proof of 'xwēdōdah' was recently discovered in a legal text written in Pahlavi from 8th-century Tabaristan 1/
Simcha Gross
Twitter Web App : Thrilled to be giving a (forthcoming) book talk Dartmouth a week from today! Join us!
Dr. Liv Ingeborg Lied
Twitter for iPhone : The last webinar of the Books Known Only by Title project is coming up. The illustrious Andrew S. Jacobs will share some highlights from his Gospel Thrillers project. Join us Wednesday 8 June at 6:00 pm CET. #CASOslo Andrew Jac🌼bs | Demystification *and* History | cas.oslo.no/webinar-overvi…
JSTOR Daily
Sprout Social : Although the name “Eva Frank” may be unfamiliar to many, followers of this revered feminine figure carried a small portrait of her, like the Virgin Mary’s. Even US Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis had such a portrait. bit.ly/3kfO10H
Simcha Gross
Twitter for iPhone : Wonderful new book by the incredible Dr. Y on the first edition of the Palestinian Talmud, printed in Venice in 1523!
Simcha Gross
Twitter Web App : 3rd BCE papyrus (P.Cair. Zen. 4.59762) listing the numbers of bricks received each day of the week in the Fayum village of Philadelphia.
The writer was Jewish, as instead of the numbers of bricks received on the 7th day, it says: Sabbath (Σάββατα).
papyri.info/ddbdp/p.cair.z…
Simcha Gross
Twitter Web App : TIL that in Israel, Philo of Alexandria has a Hebrew name: Yedidiah/ידידיה, or friend/beloved of God.
Both city streets and a village have been named after him (כפר ידידיה).
This name was 1st given to Philo in the 16th c., as part of Philo's reclamation in Jewish sources.
