This article provides a short history of the methods and tools developed by the Pelagios initiative: a series of seven projects dedicated to linking digital historical resources based on the geographic places to which they relate and refer. The first section of the article situates the work within the wider field of semantic and geospatial…[Read more]

A brief discussion of where the Late Archaic architectural terracottas published by D. Di Giuliomaria where found within the archaeological area at Sant’Omobono.

This article reads Genesis 18-19 in the light of the principal of exchange at work in ancient religious belief concerning divine justice. Genesis 18.1-15 and 19.1-29, as examples of the well-worn tale of the divine visitor, are narrative expressions of confidence in a divine justice that rewards the kind and punishes the inhospitable. In the…[Read more]

his article looks at the repeated gnomic phrase in the Book of Qoheleth, “All is vanity and a chasing after wind” (NRSV) and reads it as a disjunctive parallelism in which the terms lbh and jwr denote mortality and the divine spirit, respectively, thus showing the sense of the phrase to be, “All is mortal, but strives for immortality”. Using R…[Read more]

This article publishes a new join in SAA 18 100, a letter providing crucial historical detail about the assassination of Sennacherib in 681 BC.

Published in Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires no. 2 (June 2019): 88-90.

This volume is first major volume of articles devoted to the topic of prayer and poetry in the Dead Sea Scrolls since Liturgical Perspectives was published over a decade ago. This volume includes discussion of new insights, and findings of other leaders in this field that reflect the state of research on specific prayers and poetic texts.…[Read more]