“An LED inexpensive multispectral imaging system (LEDMSI) has been developed by researchers from Aarhus University and Moesgaard Museum in Denmark, giving archaeologists new ways of studying a site before beginning to dig into it.”
“The first version of the digital edition of the Leningrad Codex is complete. In under two months, with the help of several contributors, we encoded the columnar layout of the biblical text of the oldest complete manuscript of the Hebrew Bible according to the TEI standard.”
The Bible and Interpretation has just redesigned its website, and Mark Elliott and his team have written an article surveying the 25-year history of this valuable resource. The author index is very handy, as is the categorized listing of articles.
The Leipzig Akkadian Dictionary is now available to the public. They expect to finish work in 2041.
“The Latin Josephus Project is pleased to announce the release of version 3.0 of its digital research platform.”
Turkish Archaeological News rounds up the top stories for the month of October.
Online lecture on Nov 18: “Was Nanaya-Kānat’s Father Judaean?,” by Sandra Jacobs (free, but registration required)
New release: Nomads in Ancient Egypt and Nubia, by Julien Cooper (Cambridge Elements: Ancient Egypt in Context; free online until Dec 4)
New release: Telling Contexts: Archaeological and Textual Studies in Honor of Elizabeth Bloch-Smith and Mark S. Smith, edited by Julie B. Deluty, Heath D. Dewrell, and F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp (Lockwood, $75; Amazon; individual articles are available for purchase)
New release: Foreigners in Ancient Egyptian Art and Literature, edited by David O’Connor and Tara Prakash (Lockwood, $75)
There will be no roundup next weekend, as I will be at the ETS and SBL conferences. If you are able to attend, my presentations are:
- Evangelical Theological Society, Nov 17, 9:50 am, Psalms and Hebrew Poetry section, “Psalm 69 and the Messianic Context of Psalms Book II”
- Society of Biblical Literature, Nov 22, 5:14 pm, Historical Geography of the Biblical World Section, Celebrating the Publication of the Lexham Geographic Commentary, “The Palace at Susa and the Geographical Setting of the Book of Esther.”
HT: Agade