The University of Oxford and the Vatican Library plan “to digitize 1.5 million pages of texts from their collections and make them freely available online.”
A large 3rd or 4th century poolside mosaic has been uncovered in southern Turkey, not far from biblical Attalia.
The Saqqara Serapeum was inaugurated this week.
The Jaffa Cultural Heritage Project has received a 3-year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Hebrew University will begin offering online courses for free.
Check out Wayne Stiles’ descriptive and devotional thoughts about Tel Dan. “By providing alternative places of worship [at Dan and Bethel], Jeroboam appealed to the laziness of the human spirit.”
If you’re looking for full-color, poster-size maps of biblical history, take a look at WordAction’s Bible Teaching Maps. The $35 set includes 10 large maps 
and 10 reproducible charts. The maps were produced by Zondervan and Oxford University Press.
They are easily mounted on foam board for display and transport.
Christianbook.com has many Bible atlases on sale this week, as well as Gary Burge’s The Bible and the Land for $1.99.
A number of distinguished scholars passed away this week, including Manfred Goerg, Bahnam Abu As-Souf, and Itamar Singer.
HT: Jack Sasson, Joseph Lauer
