“A three-year-old Israeli girl has found a scarab-shaped Canaanite amulet dating back some 3,800 years at the site of Tel Azeka near Bet Shemesh.”
The Times of Israel runs an illustrated story about the exhibition “Rescued Treasures of Gaza: 5000 Years of History” that opened this week in Paris.
Western Wall authorities have carried out their semi-annual removal of prayer notes, and they have announced that due to high demand, the priestly blessing will be held twice during Passover this year.
New release: Reconfiguring the Land of Israel: A Rabbinic Project (Brill, 2024; $175; free download)
New release: The Victorians and the Holy Land: Adventurers, Tourists, and Archaeologists in the Lands of the Bible, by Allan Chapman (Eerdmans, $35)
Hybrid lecture at the Albright on May 14: “Rethinking the Early Christian Book in the Eastern Mediterranean,” by Timothy B. Sailors
The Local Reporter runs a short profile of Jodi Magness.
Ferrell Jenkins explains how we know that Jerusalem was destroyed in AD 70.
HT: Agade, Gordon Franz, Ted Weis, Arne Halbakken
