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A weblog on ancient Judaism and its context
E-mail: paleojudaica-at-talktalk-dot-net ("-at-" = "@", "-dot-" = ".")
Wednesday, August 31, 2016
Favorite church in the holy lands?
THE BIBLE PLACES BLOG: Reader Survey: Favorite Church in the Holy Lands. Another survey by Todd Bolen, with the results to be announced on Thursday.
Recycling of ancient materials in medieval art
EXHIBITION: The Hidden History of Recycling in Medieval Art (Allison Meier, Hyperallergic).
But as I read the rest of the article, the following also caught my eye:
Cross-file under Talmud Watch and Technology Watch.
It's easy to forget that a historic artifact preserved in a museum is not a static object. Before it was acquired, it went through decades of tactile use and change. The medieval period in particular, with the rise of Christianity, saw ancient Roman gods re-carved as saints, and scarce materials like gold melted down to make new objects. Waste Not: The Art of Medieval Recycling at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore explores this layered history in over 20 objects from the institution's collections.I first noticed this article because of this paragraph near the end:
These are objects of both the ancient and medieval world, and today are valued for both those histories. A 1495 edition of Aesop's Fables is just as prized for its 15th-century printing as the precious pages from a 12th-century Talmud that were reused for its binding. As Herbert said: "To me, it is this trace of creativity and resourcefulness, and the visible transformation the object has undergone, that makes medieval recycling so different and fascinating."It's always interesting to keep track of early manuscripts of the Talmud. For more on the reuse of manuscripts in book bindings, see here and here and links.
But as I read the rest of the article, the following also caught my eye:
However, the recycling is often difficult to detect, with conservators only recently discovering melted Roman gold or glass, and old manuscripts with ink scratched off from earlier writing. One gleaming work in Waste Not features a Limoges enamel of the Virgin Mary made with melted Roman glass at a time when cobalt blue glass was quite pricey, and it was easier to reuse existing materials.So medieval art sometimes recycled ancient materials and the recycling can only be detected by materials-science testing. I imagine that normally the iconographic differences between medieval and ancient art save us from confusion on such matters, but I wonder if this is always true. Might there be objects that have been determined to be ancient on the basis of their material composition but which are actually medieval works that reused ancient materials? I don't know. But given the increasing reliance on materials analysis in the fields of archaeology, art history, etc., it might be worth keeping this possibility in mind.
"This kind of recycling is really invisible, we only know there is recycling here due to modern science and our fantastic conservation department," Herbert said. "No one in the medieval era, except the craftsmen themselves, would have known it was made from recycled materials."
For example, finding traces of the mineral natron in glass, which was common in the Roman era but rare by the 9th century, suggests that a Roman mosaic may have been repurposed. The presence of the white metal bismuth in a 7th-century gold fibula likewise intimates that it was formed from melted Roman gold. Herbert added that this reuse reflected the medieval view of the world, where they saw their era "as part of a continuum, built upon all that came before," and recycling was a deliberate demonstration of that idea. Waste Not leads with a quote from the 2nd-century Christian theologian Clement of Alexandria, who wrote:Riches, then, which benefit also our neighbors, are not to be thrown away. For they are possessions, inasmuch as they are possessed, and goods, inasmuch as they are useful and provided by God for the use of men.
Cross-file under Talmud Watch and Technology Watch.
4 Ezra 14:1-48
READING ACTS: Ezra's Seventh Vision – 4 Ezra 14:1-48. My 2012 SBL paper deals with this passage in 4 Ezra: The 94 Books of Ezra and the Angelic Revelations of John Dee. The earlier posts in Phil Long's series on 4 Ezra have been noted here and links.
Cross-file under Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Watch.
Cross-file under Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Watch.
A 10th century BCE palace at Gezer?
ARCHAEOLOGY: King Solomon-era Palace Found in Biblical Gezer. Monumental 3000-year-old ruins, Philistine pottery support biblical tales of Gezer's rise, and fall to a jealous pharaoh (Philippe Bohstrom, Haaretz).
And about that dating and biblical connection:
A palatial building dating to the era of King Solomon 3000 years ago has been discovered in the royal city of Gezer, though there is no evidence which of the Israelite kings lived there, if any.Clearly an important discovery, whether or not the exact date and proposed biblical connection (on which more below) stand up. This, however, is disappointing:
The monumental building dates to the 10th century BCE, the era associated with King Solomon, who is famed for bringing wealth and stability to the newly-united kingdom of Israel and Judah. The American archaeological team also found a layer featuring Philistine pottery, lending credence to the biblical account of them living in the city until being vanquished by King David.
Archaeologists had assumed that once they cleared the massive stones left behind from the destruction, they would find storerooms filled with artifacts. To their dismay, most of the rooms were empty. "It appears that everything was cleaned out before the destruction. Perhaps they knew of the impending attack and removed most of the objects," [Prof. Steve] Ortiz says.Sigh. Conscientious people.
And about that dating and biblical connection:
Dr. Sam Wolff, an archaeologist employed by the Israel Antiquities Authority and co-director of the excavation along with Ortiz, urges caution in connecting the finds from the excavation with biblical texts.The thing to be excited about is the discovery of an early Iron Age II palace. Any biblical background that eventually stands up to scrutiny is just a bonus. Meanwhile, it would be really nice if a nice lapidary inscription turned up in the rubble to tell us all about what was actually going on.
Regarding attribution of the palace to the time of King Solomon, Wolff tells Haaretz, "Our 10th century date is tentative, pending further study of the ceramic assemblage and the results of carbon 14 analyses. Others may claim that the pottery we are calling 10th century is in fact 9th century.
Khirbet Qeiyafa at the Bible Lands Museum
EXHIBITION: Archaeological Evidence of the Kingdom of David in Jerusalem. Israeli archaeologists will present to the public the new evidence recently uncovered of the truth of the Biblical kingdom of David (Anna Rudnitsky, TPS/Tazpit News Agency via the Jewish Press).
Biblical archaeology was revolutionized several years ago when evidence of the existence of the kingdom of David was brought to light in the form of a fortified Iron Age town excavated in the Elah Valley by Hebrew University Professor Yosef Garfinkel and Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) archaeologist Sa'ar Ganor.Past posts on Khirbet Qeiyafa and the important inscriptions and other things discovered there are here, here, and here, with many links.
The place was described by the Bible as the location of the battle between David and Goliath. The highlights of the findings of the Elah Valley excavations are now to be presented to the public for the first time at an exhibition scheduled to open at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem on September 5.
The Bible Lands Museum exhibition, "In the Valley of David and Goliath" will feature the pottery shards as well as a clay model of a shrine found at the site and the huge stones used in the wall around the town. "Although I led the excavations, I myself was amazed to see the different pieces brought together in a way that allows visitors to get a clear picture of how the town looked and that gives them an opportunity to go back in history to the times of the kingdom of David," Professor Garfinkel said.
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
The Mishnah on the Lex Talionis (Law of Retaliation)
THE GEMARA.COM: Rabbinic Battery Law in Light of Roman Rule (Dr. Yoni Pomeranz).
Abstract: The rabbinic laws of personal injury differ markedly from those in the Torah. They are, however, substantially similar to the laws of personal injury that guided Roman courts in Palestine in the second century CE. Reading perek ha-ḥovel (m. Bava Kamma 8) alongside Roman law codes reveals the influence that Roman law had on rabbinic law. Roman models were responsible for the rabbinic rejection of a strict "eye for an eye" law, the calculation of נזק by valuing the victim as a slave, and the idea that an assailant could be liable for payments for בושת.This is relevant as background to and elaboration on the immediately preceding post on The Lex Talionis (Law of Retaliation) in the Talmud.
The Lex Talionis (Law of Retaliation) in the Talmud
THIS WEEK'S DAF YOMI COLUMN BY ADAM KIRSCH IN TABLET: Is 'An Eye for an Eye' Really an Eye for an Eye? In this week's 'Daf Yomi,' Talmudic rabbis reinterpret a famous biblical verse to allow compassion to trump logic.
UPDATE: The immediately following post above is also relevant: The Mishnah on the Lex Talionis (Law of Retaliation).
The truth is that, as we have seen over the last four years of reading Daf Yomi, the rabbis very often depart from biblical law, even to the extent of completely rewriting it. Exactly when in Jewish history the practice changed from reciprocal injury to the payment of a fine is unclear, but by the time the mishna was compiled, in the first century CE, the change was already well-established. However, it is a fundamental principle of the Talmud that such revisions can never be acknowledged as revisions. After all, if the Bible is the word of God, no human court can modify it. What it can do, instead, is to reinterpret the Bible so that it says the reverse of what it seems to plainly mean. Such reinterpretation is authorized by the idea that the oral law, as recorded in the mishna, is of equal antiquity with the written law because both were given to Moses at Sinai.Earlier Daf Yomi columns are noted here and links.
UPDATE: The immediately following post above is also relevant: The Mishnah on the Lex Talionis (Law of Retaliation).
Postdocs and PhD positions at Helsinki
The two Centres of Excellence are seeking enthusiastic candidates for several fixed-term positions ofOne of those Centres is The CoE in Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions (CSTT), which has a blog here. They do a lot of interesting work in ancient Judaism and related areas. Dr. Drew Longacre is currently a postdoctoral researcher there. His Old Testament Textual Criticism Blog and the CSTT Blog are familiar to regular readers of PaleoJudaica.
UNIVERSITY RESEARCHERS, POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS and DOCTORAL STUDENTS
The university and postdoctoral researcher positions are for periods ranging from one to three years. The period of the doctoral student positions may range from one to four years.
4 Ezra 13:1-58
READING ACTS: Ezra's Sixth Vision – 4 Ezra 13:1-58 (The Man from the Sea). The earlier posts in the series on 4 Ezra have been noted here and links.
Cross-file under Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Watch.
Cross-file under Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Watch.
DeConick, The Gnostic New Age
RICE UNIVERSITY PRESS RELEASE: New book by Rice's DeConick explores the emergence and revolutionizing role of gnosticism.
Gnosticism is a countercultural spirituality that forever changed the practice of Christianity. This is the premise of a new book by April DeConick, the Isla Carroll and Percy E. Turner Professor of Biblical Studies and chair of the Department of Religion at Rice University.I shall be reviewing this book in the Mysticism, Esotericism, and Gnosticism in Antiquity Group in November at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in San Antonio. I'm looking forward to reading my copy when it arrives.
"The Gnostic New Age: How a Countercultural Spirituality Revolutionized Religion From Antiquity to Today," published by Columbia University Press, will hit bookstores in September. The 392-page book has already been selected to receive a subvention award from the Figure Foundation, which very selectively supports publications, mainly in philosophy and religion.
Monday, August 29, 2016
The denarius
NUMISMATICS: Silver denarius was centerpiece of Rome's currency for centuries. Most famous ancient coin is silver 'Eid Mar' denarius (Jeff Starck, Coin World).
Just as the Greeks had a signature silver coin, the Roman denarius (plural: denarii) was the centerpiece of the Roman currency system.The denarius is probably best known from this story in the New Testament:
The small silver coin was first minted about 211 B.C. during the Second Punic War, and became the most common coin produced for circulation, remaining useful long after memories of the war had faded.
Early denarii feature the head of Roma, patroness of the city, on the obverse. The reverse features the Dioscuri, known individually as Castor and Pollux, the twin sons of Zeus and Leda. These young gods became widely popular as protectors in a moment of crisis, and a temple was built in their honor.
As the decades passed, designs for the denomination made way for the political realities of a world where the moneyers (those who struck the coins) and later the rulers themselves, highlighted their own achievements, relationships, or both.
13 And they sent to him some of the Pharisees and some of the Hero′di-ans, to entrap him in his talk. 14 And they came and said to him, "Teacher, we know that you are true, and care for no man; for you do not regard the position of men, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not? 15 Should we pay them, or should we not?" But knowing their hypocrisy, he said to them, "Why put me to the test? Bring me a coin,[a] and let me look at it." 16 And they brought one. And he said to them, "Whose likeness and inscription is this?" They said to him, "Caesar's." 17 Jesus said to them, "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." And they were amazed at him.And cross-file under Punic Watch.
a. Mark 12:15 Greek a denarius
(Mark 12:13-17 RSV)
Glenny, "The Septuagint and Biblical Theology"
THEMELIOS 41.2: The Septuagint and Biblical Theology (W. Edward Glenny).
This article addresses the question: How does the LXX relate to the Christian Old Testament, and more specifically, what role does the LXX play in Christian biblical theology? The first part of the article is a brief overview of five different approaches to the role of the LXX in a whole-Bible biblical theology. The five approaches are: (1) LXX Priority and Canon, (2) LXX Priority, Hebrew Canon, (3) Hebrew Priority and Canon, LXX Bridge, (4) Hebrew and Greek Are Sanctified by the Spirit, and finally (5) Hebrew Priority and Canon, LXX Commentary. Building on the different perspectives surveyed in this study, it is suggested that that the importance and function of the LXX in Christian biblical theology is at least fourfold: (1) The LXX can function as the source of Christian biblical theology; (2) The LXX is valuable for biblical theology in its role as a commentary on the biblical text; (3) The LXX is a bridge or link between the Christian OT and NT; and (4) The LXX complements the Hebrew Scriptures.
4 Ezra 11:1-12:51
READING ACTS: Ezra's Fifth Vision – 4 Ezra 11:1-12:51 (The Eagle Vision). The earlier posts in the series on 4 Ezra have been noted here and links. So far there is not a post on Ezra's fourth vision, the woman and Jerusalem.
Cross-file under Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Watch.
Cross-file under Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Watch.
The Living Torah Museum
EXHIBITION: Talmud for Taxidermy. At the Torah Animal World, one Brooklyn Rabbi Brings Stuffed History to Strange Life (Jamie Manelis, Observer.com).
I was surrounded. Seven lions encircled us, mouths ajar with eternal hunger. It was me, a photographer and a rabbi. Sounds like the beginning of a bizarre, hacky joke or the kind of anxiety-ridden dream you tell your therapist about (maybe you should have just had that bat mitzvah?) or possibly even a premise for a very strange and specific horror film. Regardless, it's the kind of scene you would never imagine happening in your real life, especially in Brooklyn.I posted on Torah Animal World and the Living Torah Museum back in 2010. But this new article is a good excuse to mention it again.
This is Torah Animal World.
"Don't be afraid. How about holding a baby lion?" Rabbi Shaul Shimon Deutsch, founder and curator of Torah Animal World, attempts to comfort me with the stuffed baby lion, his face frozen in ferocious spirit. "Kids come in here, and they are in love because you feel like you're walking into a lion's den."
That's only the beginning of the fascinating journey through Rabbi Deutsch's treasure chest of taxidermy delights and ancient artifacts of time forgotten. Torah Animal World is a subset of the Living Torah Museum (voted Best Museum of New York by the Village Voice) offers peculiar insight on an otherwise conventional history. Located in Borough Park, Brooklyn, Rabbi Deutsch has reconstructed his ideal museum with a collection of antiquities (both secular and not) and taxidermy animals, which he's been collecting for over 23 years. "This was a lifelong dream," Deutsch admits with a gleaming smile. He poses next to a smug ostrich whose plastered smirk survives even death. "I felt that if we could create something like this it would outlast my lifetime.
CFP: How the Bible Came into Being
THE DUNELM ROAD BLOG: How the Bible Came into Being. HBU Spring Theology Conference. A conference on 2-4 March 2017 at Houston Baptist University. Follow the link for details and the call for papers.
Sunday, August 28, 2016
Review of Ryan and Shamir (eds.), Bigger than Ben-Hur
Barbara Ryan, Milette Shamir (ed.), Bigger than Ben-Hur: The Book, its Adaptations, and their Audiences. Television and popular culture. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2016. Pp. xviii, 269. ISBN 9780815634034. $34.95 (pb).Timely. Background on the new Ben-Hur movie is here and links. Those links will lead to discussions of the book and previous film adaptations etc.
Reviewed by Ruth Scodel, The University of Michigan (email@example.com)
4 Ezra 6:35-9:25
READING ACTS: Ezra's Third Vision – 4 Ezra 6:35-9:25. The earlier posts in the series on 4 Ezra have been noted here and links.
Cross-file under Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Watch.
Cross-file under Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Watch.
New translation of Sifre Devarim
Sifre DevarimMore details:
Marty Jaffee
A new translation of the 4th-century rabbinic oral commentaries on Deuteronomy
This new translation of the tannaitic midrash Sifre Devarim by Professor Emeritus Marty Jaffee of the University of Washington emphasizes the oral performative dimension of the text.
Book DescriptionAnd this:
Professor Marty Jaffee's new translation of the tannaitic midrash, Sifre Devarim, a 4th-century compilation of rabbinic oral commentaries on Deuteronomy, uniquely captures the spoken dimension of the original text.
Previous translators were rightly concerned with the accurate negotiation of meaning between rabbinic Hebrew and modern English, but neglected the text's social matrix in an oral-performative milieu. This new translation brings a fresh and often poetic perspective to the work.
Project made possible through a Digital Media Fellowship at theHT the Talmud Blog on Facebook.
University of Washington Stroum Center for Jewish Studies
New Series: Texts and Versions of the Hebrew Bible
NEWS YOU CAN USE: New Series: Texts and Versions of the Hebrew Bible (Peter Gurry, ETC Blog).
Review of Compton, Psalm 110 and the Logic of Hebrews
REVIEWS OF BIBLICAL AND EARLY CHRISTIAN STUDIES: Psalm 110 and the Logic of Hebrews.
2016.08.16 | Jared Compton. Psalm 110 and the Logic of Hebrews. London: T&T Clark, 2015.
Review by Madison N. Pierce, Durham University.
Saturday, August 27, 2016
Review of Fisher (ed.), Arabs and Empires before Islam
Greg Fisher (ed.), Arabs and Empires before Islam. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. xxvii, 580. ISBN 9780199654529. $225.00.This chapter in particular caught my eye:
Reviewed by Hamish Cameron, Bates College (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Arabs and Empires before Islam seeks to illuminate the pre-Islamic Arabs and their relationship to the empires and kingdoms which surrounded them. The chapters, each of which has been written by an ensemble of scholars, examine a variety of mostly written evidence from multiple traditions, most originating in geographically, politically and chronologically adjacent contexts. Archaeological evidence plays a part in this volume, as do writings by pre-islamic Arab authors themselves.
Chapter 7 (Provincia Arabia: Nabataea, the Emergence of Arabic as a Written Language, and Graeco-Arabia) addresses the life of the Roman province of Arabia from its annexation to its loss. In the first section (Petra and Ḥegrā between the Roman annexation and the coming of Islam), Zbigniew T. Fiema and Laïla Nehmé survey the Roman annexation of the region. They explore the administration, urbanization, and economic development of the province as well as the relationships between the Roman province and peripheral Arab groups and the impact of Christianity on the region. This section is based mostly on archaeological evidence. The second section, "The Emergence of Arabic as a Written Language", examines the textual evidence for the province. Michael C. A. MacDonald begins by discussing how cultural norms around language use and writing may have affected the development of written Arabic. He then proceeds through a close philological commentary of inscriptions in the Nabatean script that illustrate the relationship between Arabic and Aramaic in the region. The section includes a sub-section by Laïla Nehmé on 'transitional' Nabataeo-Arabic texts and ends with a discussion of the Greco-Arabica, a loose corpus of Arabic words transliterated into the Greek script that allows access to otherwise unknown aspects of pronunciation and meaning.Cross-file under Nabatean (Nabataean) Watch. Some posts thematically related to the book are collected here and here.
Predatory publishers
BEWARE: Beall's List: Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers (AWOL).
Anyone wishing to publisher with an open access publisher should choose a publisher carefully. One way to do this is to review Jeffrey Beall's list of predatory publishers ...
Scotland and the Bar Kokhba Revolt
ARCHAEOLOGY: Burnswark's bloody Roman history becomes clearer (Willie Johnston, BBC Scotland).
There's growing evidence that a landmark flat-topped hill in Dumfriesshire was the site of the first major battle of the Roman invasion of Scotland.Now this in itself is an exciting archaeological development. But what, you ask, does it have to do with the Bar Kokhba Revolt, the Jewish revolt against Rome in 132-135 CE? This:
Archaeologists have been trying for 300 years to assess the role of Burnswark in the Roman occupation.
New excavations suggest the truth is more bloody than had been thought up to now.
Lead archaeologist Andrew Nicholson believes it was the first assault in the Roman invasion of Scotland around 140 AD.
"What this probably is, is the start of the Antonine push from Hadrian's Wall, conquering all of southern Scotland," he said.
"After the emperor Hadrian has died the new emperor Antoninus Pius needs a victory as the incoming emperor.
"Southern Scotland is beyond the wall, beyond the borders, it is barbarian and Burnswark and the rest of Annandale and everywhere south of the Forth-Clyde line is its intended target."
More evidence is the known presence of a general Lollius Urbicus brought here from the Middle East to do the emperor's dirty work.More on Urbicus is here.
John Reid of the Roman Heritage group the Trimontium Trust says Urbicus had "previous".
"He made his name in the Jewish war which had taken place in Israel in the previous four years where they had literally gone through the whole of Judea taking hill forts one after the other," he said.
"He was given the job of taking Scotland, we know that from Roman literary sources.
"So he was here and this is where they blood their troops."
4 Ezra 5:21-6:34
READING ACTS: Ezra's Second Vision – 4 Ezra 5:21-6:34. The earlier posts in the series on 4 Ezra have been noted here and link.
Cross-file under Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Watch.
Cross-file under Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Watch.
More on that Philistine cemetery in Ashkelon
INTERVIEW: One on One with…Adam Aja, museum curator and senior staff member of Ashkelon dig (Wayne E. Rivet, The Bridgton News).
Adam Aja knows what it is like to find a needle in a haystack, sort of.The story of the discovery and an interview with Aja about the Ashkelon excavation follow.
Working several summers in Israel as an Assistant Director of Field Operations at Ashkelon, the former Bridgton resident made a startling find at the end of one dig period.
Through the help of a co-worker using an excavator, Aja uncovered a Philistine cemetery, the first major burial site discovered in the area, ever. Further excavation over the next year resulted in unearthing 200 fully-articulated skeletons laid out in burial positions, as well as some weapons.
In an i24 television interview, Adam talked about the moment of discovery. The crew was approached by a surveyor, who had found some human remains. He wondered why no one had continued work there.
"It was a crazy two days," he added. "We just kept finding body after body."Background here and links.
Friday, August 26, 2016
PhD thesis by Noah Bickart
ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Dissertation Spotlight | Noah Bickart.
This project investigates the meaning and usage of a particular set of linguistically related Talmudic terms in order to show how and in what cultural context the Talmud began to take shape in the emerging scholastic centers of rabbinic learning in late Sassanian Babylonia.Sounds interesting, but I kept wondering what the title of the dissertation is.
Bauckham Festschrift
In the Fullness of Time: Essays on Christology, Creation,and Eschatology in Honor of Richard Bauckham (ed. Daniel Gurtner, Grant Macaskill, Jonathan Pennington; Eerdmans, 2016).My essay, "The Book of Revelation and the Hekhalot Literature," is published on pp. 215-28. You can read an earlier version of it here (with this). Congratulations to Richard Bauckham for a well-deserved honor.
Over the course of his distinguished career Richard Bauckham has made pioneering contributions to diverse areas of scholarship ranging from ethics and contemporary issues to hermeneutical problems and theology, often drawing together disciplines and fields of research all too commonly kept separate from one another. In this volume some of the most eminent figures in modern biblical and theological scholarship present essays honoring Bauckham. Addressing a variety of subjects related to Christology, creation, and eschatology, the contributors develop elements of Bauckham's biblical and theological work further, present fresh research of their own to complement his work, and raise critical questions.
Results of inscription survey
THE BIBLE PLACES BLOG: Favorite Ancient Inscription Results Todd Bolen gives the main results of the survey noted here. I did think about the Mesha Stele (Todd's favorite), but in the end I voted for the Balaam inscription from Tel Deir 'Alla. Todd quotes my reasoning in the post.
A couple of past posts involving the Balaam inscription are here and here. A recent English translation is by Edward M. Cook in Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: More Noncanonical Scriptures, volume 1 (ed. Bauckham, Davila, and Panayotov; Eerdmans, 2013), pp. 236-43.
By the way, the seal of Baruch the scribe is widely regarded to be a forgery. (See here and here and links.)
A couple of past posts involving the Balaam inscription are here and here. A recent English translation is by Edward M. Cook in Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: More Noncanonical Scriptures, volume 1 (ed. Bauckham, Davila, and Panayotov; Eerdmans, 2013), pp. 236-43.
By the way, the seal of Baruch the scribe is widely regarded to be a forgery. (See here and here and links.)
4 Ezra 3:1-5:20
READING ACTS: Ezra's First Vision – 4 Ezra 3:1-5:20. The first post in the series on 4 Ezra (2 Esdras) was noted here.
Cross-file under Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Watch.
Cross-file under Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Watch.
Early Judaism and Christianity job at McMaster University
H-JUDAIC: JOB: McMaster University, Assistant Professor, Early Judaism and Early Christianity. Follow the link for further particulars. The committee will begin reviewing applications on 15 October and plans to interview at the AAR/SBL annual meeting in November.
Thursday, August 25, 2016
On crossing the Jordan
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Seven Fascinating Facts about Crossing the Jordan River (Todd Bolen, Bible Places Blog.
I had the opportunity to read a pre-publication draft of an article that David Z. Moster has written on crossing the Jordan River in antiquity. I found it a fascinating study, and I asked him if I could share some of his excellent research with you, and he kindly agreed.
Introducing 4 Ezra (2 Esdras)
READING ACTS: A Christian Introduction to 4 Ezra. We move to a new text in Phil Long's pseudepigrapha series. In this post he deals with the larger Ezra document that includes the Jewish text 4 Ezra and the Christian texts 5 Ezra and 6 Ezra. The three are found together in the Latin translation, which as a whole is generally known as 2 Esdras.
Past PaleoJudaica posts on the ancient Ezra literature (these three books and more!) are collected here [transposed links - here and first in next sentence - now fixed.]. And subsequent past posts on 4 Ezra are here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. A post on 6 Ezra is here. Cross-file under Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Watch.
Past PaleoJudaica posts on the ancient Ezra literature (these three books and more!) are collected here [transposed links - here and first in next sentence - now fixed.]. And subsequent past posts on 4 Ezra are here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. A post on 6 Ezra is here. Cross-file under Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Watch.
YONA SABAR: Hebrew word of the week: Nasi'/President.
An little footnote to this word. The second-century head of the failed second revolt against Rome, Shimon Bar Kokhba (Bar Kosiba) was also addressed by his followers with the title Nasi', "prince" or (anachronistically) "president." In 1960, when archaeologist Yigael Yadin announced the discovery of the Bar Kokhba letters, he made the announcement in the residence of the President of Israel and in the hearing of the President. Yadin showed a slide of of one of the letters and said (in Hebrew), "Your Excellency, I am honored to be able to tell you that we have discovered fifteen despatches written or dictated by the last President of ancient Israel, 1800 years ago."*
*Yadin, Bar-Kokhba: The Rediscovery of the Legendary Hero of the Second Jewish Revolt Against Rome (New York: Random House, 1971), untitled opening statement.
An little footnote to this word. The second-century head of the failed second revolt against Rome, Shimon Bar Kokhba (Bar Kosiba) was also addressed by his followers with the title Nasi', "prince" or (anachronistically) "president." In 1960, when archaeologist Yigael Yadin announced the discovery of the Bar Kokhba letters, he made the announcement in the residence of the President of Israel and in the hearing of the President. Yadin showed a slide of of one of the letters and said (in Hebrew), "Your Excellency, I am honored to be able to tell you that we have discovered fifteen despatches written or dictated by the last President of ancient Israel, 1800 years ago."*
*Yadin, Bar-Kokhba: The Rediscovery of the Legendary Hero of the Second Jewish Revolt Against Rome (New York: Random House, 1971), untitled opening statement.
Cue the Holy Hand Grenade jokes
A RELIC: Crusader-era grenade dug out of central Israel home. Family shows metal artifacts retrieved from sea by late father, including knife-head some 3,500 years old (Sue Surkes, Times of Israel).
The early grenade would have been filled with Greek fire, sealed and hurled at an enemy, a weapon common in Israel from the 11th to 14th centuries CE.
It was used during the Crusader, Ayyubid and Mamluk periods, according to the IAA.
The Bogomils of Bosnia
POST-ANTIQUITY GNOSTICISM: The Bogomils of Bosnia: Forgotten gnostics (AYŞE BETÜL KAYAHAN, Daily Sabah).
Bogomilism was a Gnostic dualistic sect, whose religious doctrines borrowed from the belief system of the Paulicians and the Manichaeans. Bogomilism is thought to originate from the teachings of a village priest named Bogomil who lived in Macedonia, whose name means "friend of God" or "beloved of God." The priest Bogomil would criticize the wealthy priests and nobles, calling them the servants of the devil. He would refer to the Gospel while preaching about the differences in life style between Jesus Christ and wealthy priests. Poor people living in the Byzantine-controlled Macedonia and Thracian regions followed Bogomil teachings, and later organized under the rule of Peter I of Bulgaria as a reactionary group opposing oppression from political and clerical authorities. Although the Bogomils flourished in Bulgaria, their teachings expanded to areas in the Byzantine Empire, Serbia, Bosnia, Italy and France.For more on the Bogomils, and why PaleoJudaica is interested in them, see here and links.
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The city of Minneapolis has lost another veteran legislator.
Sen. Larry Pogemiller, a DFLer who was first elected to the House in 1980 and to the Senate in 1982, was named by Gov. Mark Dayton as director of the Office of Higher Education. His departure follows that of another Minneapolis DFLer, Sen. Linda Berglin, who left the Legislature this summer to take a position with Hennepin County.
Pogemiller served as Senate Majority Leader at the time when DFLers lost the majority to Republicans in the 2010 election. Up until that time, he had served in the majority in the Senate, and was a leader in K-12 education and higher education issues. His district, Senate District 59, includes the University of Minnesota's Twin Cities campus.
Dayton said in a statement that Pogemiller is "one of the smartest, most talented, and most dedicated people I have ever met in public service.'' He said Pogemiller has "unparalleled experience and expertise in the legislative process and in public policy issues.''
The Office of Higher Education provides financial aid programs for students and is a center for research on higher education and financial aid. The Office administers up to $150 million in grants. Pogemiller replaces Susan Von Mosch, the acting interim director.
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Some of the largest companies in Silicon Valley, such as Google, Yahoo, Facebook, and Apple, released diversity statistics recently, revealing that only about 30% of their workforce are female.
Gender inequality is a problem that's been discussed for years in the tech space. Although it's improving, many believe females are still underrepresented in this field.
Paula Long, who sold her first startup EqualLogic to Dell for $1.4 billion in 2008, is one of the more successful female entrepreneurs in the tech industry. She believes the best way to fix this problem is rather simple: better supply.
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Long also had some sound advice for entrepreneurs looking to break into the tech industry, saying that it's important to remember that you're the one in control.
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Cobolli Gigli took over in a management shakeup after the 2006 match-fixing scandal in which Juve were stripped of the 2005 and 2006 Serie A titles and demoted to the second tier.
Unlike most millionaire Italian soccer presidents, Cobolli Gigli does not own Juve and was appointed to represent the club at meetings. His tenure is running out and will not be renewed.
The Turin club, now back in the upper echelons of Serie A and the Champions League, is controlled by the investment firm of Italy`s powerful Agnelli family.
"I want to thank Cobolli Gigli for these three very difficult years, in which he has given so much," Agnelli heir John Elkann told Italian media.
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Sprint (NYSE:S) today announced that its all-new network offers 4G LTE service in 41 more cities. Sprint 4G LTE now covers more than 225 million people and remains on track to cover 250 million by mid-year. Sprint Spark™, an enhanced LTE service delivering peak wireless speeds of 60Mbps, is available in six new cities, and is expected to cover 100 million people by year-end.
4G LTE data speeds are now available to more customers in such locations as Long Island, N.Y., Minneapolis, and Phoenix. Customers in Newark, N.J.; Oakland, Calif.; Orlando, Fla.; Tacoma, Wash.; Waukegan, Ill.; and West Palm Beach, Fla. will also now benefit from even faster data speeds with the availability of Sprint Spark.
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Sprint Spark is an enhanced LTE service that's built for data and designed to deliver peak wireless speeds of 60Mbps today on capable devices, with the potential for speeds three times as fast by late next year.1 Sprint offers 14 Sprint Spark-enabled devices, including the recently launched Samsung Galaxy S® 5 and HTC One (M8). With its unique combination of network technologies, spectrum capacity and tri-band devices, Sprint Spark is designed to greatly improve the performance of video and other bandwidth-intensive applications. It enables stutter-free video chat on-the-go and mobile gaming that leaves lag behind.
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I'm surprised we haven't gotten the To-Love-Ru manga by now. As for mangaka, I imagine they renegotiate their contracts if their titles make money.
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I'm sorry Jason, but your logic is a bit flawed. The big 3 publishers do not take into consideration what goes on outside of Japan when it comes to contract negotiations for the artists in Japanese publications. Do you think Kishimoto would have been given a good contract if he had lots of sales in the US but not in the land of moon? Never mind the fact that tankoban goes on sale in Japan, much less the rest of the world, well after the chapters' performance has been considered in serialization meetings. It may have impact, but you can't publish tankoban if you get dropped from the serial. I think Bakuman, in a tongue and cheek manner, has done an excellent job of satirizing what "really" matters to the publishers. Sure, I subscribe to WSJ from Viz, but I am quite certain that the survey you can fill out on their website has no impact during serialization meetings, etc. Especially since the material is dated. Perhaps it will be different now that they are simulpublishing manga in digital format, but somehow I doubt it.
Also, work-for-hire is very much the way things work in Japan if you aren't Kishimoto or others in his same class. And since that class is so very miniscule, you might as well consider it the exception and not the rule. The other 97% of mangaka will probably never even get close to that dream. To put it in perspective, the Japanese publishers have even found difficulty in exporting their business model. In fact, I recall there was quite a bruhaha on LiveJournal when one of the international subsidiaries of the big three were testing the waters and trying to recruit OEL manga artists through contests. Someone did their homework and posted an actual lawyer's analysis of one of the contest contracts. It turns out the contract you had to submit with your entry basically was worse than work-for-hire. It's because they actually were acquiring the rights for your entry's intellectual property EVEN IF YOU DID NOT WIN. The most infamous for doing this was Tokyopop. Of course, it doesn't help matters that the big 3 are more or less the publishing cartel in Japan or the fact that most Japanese are resigned to the go-along to get-along corporate mentality. The way they operate makes the US recording industry look like saints in comparison (although admittedly Sony is a member of that group).
Further, things really get ugly the father away from shounen you get. Why not try asking how shoujo-ai or shounen-ai mangakas are treated? Or worse even, how hentai and yaoi mangakas are treated. Of course, the excuse in the case of the latter is that such material is dirty and so those making it deserve to be treated like dirt. Yet ironically, it is the shadow arms of the big 3 who publish this dirt that are probably what's keeping the main body afloat in these troubled times.
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For the new question, Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Usagi Drop is a worthy second (I rated both of them Masterpiece), but there's no way it's close. Only one series this year been a true standout, both commercially and in terms of incredible storytelling quality.
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You've just described Japan, not the US. While I certainly do agree on the demographics for manga buyers in US skewing younger and being more picky, that fact also contradicts what you mentioned above because manga is simply more expensive than anime here (.. ok, except some Aniplex releases) Omnibus editions certainly help but those usually take a while.
There's no cheap serialization option here in the US; yes the paper quality is poor, but it's the way most people read their manga and you get a whole TON of manga for the money. In fact as dragon695 pointed out, the mangaka's livelihood depends on the serialization and rankings!
Even this Square-Enix producer notes Reasons Manga Do Not Sell Well Overseas
He notes the higher prices, smaller print runs, less money "children" have (which I take to include teens), and the much greater lack of availability and convenience. Unlike Japan, manga isn't as prolific as regular magazines here.
(On the other hand the French market is vastly different and is much larger)
This is applies even more so for anime. There was a thread already covering this with documented costs, and budgeting. Everyone goes through the production committee, a pool of investors, who owns the rights. The animation studio--including director, writers, VAs hired and all the talent--is allocated a small fraction of that budget (though there are other legitimate costs involved outside the studio) which is already relatively small to begin with compared to live action, and they don't see any more money after the work is done.
There are always exceptions of course like Sunrise and Gundam, but by and large that's basically it for late night anime where not a penny of your DVD/BD goes to them.
There is one upside, which can be crucial and probably why it remains the defacto method: they get paid even when the anime tanks, which many do. The production committee takes the hit, but they might be able to compensate with merchandise or other titles they have invested in.
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I pretty much just buy anime blurays but don't buy manga. I do buy manga on occasion, but it is rare.
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I somehow missed that part when reading the article. But if there's anyone who needs to get his eyesight checked it is Brian, because I too don't read any Manga, even scanlations. Okay, let me clarify that. I've read bits of pieces of Death Note but never a full chapter. I read the first two chapters of Mirai Nikki, and I own (and have read) the first volume of Eureka seveN because it came with the art box. That's it.
So yeah, I would like to see Brian not try and make ridiculous generalisations, especially when he's in a position of giving advice and informing people.
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Ditto. I was under the impression that there were more people that bought anime, but not manga. It's been like that for years. I read manga and watch anime, but it's expensive doing both. If it wasn't for my overwhelming curioisty to read the source than watch the material, I would just stick with anime. It's cheaper and quicker.
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I'd like to see Brian quit it with these theme Answerman columns answering questions that have been answered time and again not that far apart. I hate to see what really great questions asked this week that were past over cause Brian wanted to make the whole column revolve around questions about manga
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Not really. It's standard for mangaka to own rights to their work in Japan, and they receive a percentage of tankoubon sales.
In fact, this is causing issues for Amazon at the moment, because for their ebook service (Kindle), they're demanding that Japanese publishers act like American ones and obtain complete control of authors' works--something Japanese publishers currently don't do--so Amazon doesn't have to negotiate with individual authors.
If you just mean "most mangaka sell so few tankoubon that a huge chunk of their income is the one-time payment for the initial magazine print so it feels like work-for-hire," then sure.
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I have to say the same here, me and my circle of friends who like anime, are pretty much only anime. Okay a 100 volumes of manga, but I have almost 2000 volumes or dvds of anime. Most of my other friends have no manga and just anime. I no maybe one or two people who are primarily manga only fans, and usually the series the pick up are non anime anyway.
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Bingo ~ multiple industry sources have noted that while anime is normally work for hire and belongs to the production committee (though the production committee may well split up rights in a variety of ways that can make worldwide streaming difficult to pull off), manga rights are normally unbundled.
Page rates for first publication are just that: first publication rights, just as if someone has sold a Science Fiction short story at the miserable word rates of the surviving commercial SF magazines.
OT1H in many cases mangaka would lose money if they earned page rates alone, but OTOH they don't earn page rates alone, if they have tankobon that are selling.
And international publication rights are yet another right that is not normally obtained up front, because after all, who knows what those crazy foreigners are going to take a hankering after, so rather than pay extra for those rights up front, may as well just wait until the rights are bid for.
"Logic" is perhaps relevant to a discussion about whether the current way of doing things is under pressure to change. But the current practice if the current practice, irrespective of whether internet forum discussants find it logical or illogical.
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I don't know definitively, but I thought the market for manga in the West skewed, if anything, older rather than younger, than the market for anime in the West.
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Nope. At 16, I am one of the youngest people to frequent my local anime shop.
But I see TONS of people my age and younger reading manga in my school.
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Young people read manga, dont buy it thats the problem. I always saw kids reading manga in borders or barnes and nobles like it was got dam library. They dont actually buy anything, older folks tend actually buy manga, but I notice for the most part they stick to a few specific series.
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