Paleojudaica

ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: ">Lessons Learned from the Magi (Eric Vanden Eykel).If writing about the Magi taught me anything, it is that interpretive certainty is often unfounded. The twelve verses about the Magi in Matthew do not invite final answers; they invite attention, patience, and the persistence to keep digging. In this way, the Magi become less a prooftext about Gentiles and J...

NEW BOOK FROM MOHR SIEBECK:Charlotte Obeid Le langage métaphorique dans le texte hébreu de Ben Sira [Metaphorical Language in the Hebrew Text of Ben Sira.] 2025. 404 pages. Forschungen zum Alten Testament 2. Reihe (FAT II) 171 €109.00 including VAT sewn paper available 978-3-16-164680-5 Also Available As: eBook PDF Summary Charlotte Obeid analyzes the use of metap...

NEW BOOK FROM BRILL:The New Testament Canon in Contemporary Research Series: Texts and Editions for New Testament Study, Volume: 21 Volume Editors: Stanley E. Porter and Benjamin P. Laird The New Testament canon remains a major topic in scholarly research. This comprehensive volume provides a forum for scholars from varied backgrounds and perspectives to present major essay...

ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Reading Conflict in the Babylonian Talmud: Behind The Fragility of the Mind (Yuval Fraenkel).A Publication Preview of Yuval Fraenkel, The Fragility of the Mind: Confrontation Stories among Rabbis in the Babylonian Talmud (Magness Press, 2026), [Hebrew]. ... Even if these events did in fact occur, this alone cannot explain the immense cultural energy invested...

NEW (BRIEF) BOOK FROM CAMBRIDGE ELEMENTS:Cultural Memory in the Hebrew Bible Genesis to Kings Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 June 2026 Ronald Hendel Summary The relationship between the biblical representations of the past and the history of the second and early first millennia BCE is best comprehended by the concept of cultural memory. This volume in...