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I note with sadness the passing of Kenneth Kitchen, an extraordinary Egyptologist and individual. Kitchen was phenomenally prolific, an into...

I sadly just learned about the death of the notable Sumerologist, Marcel Sigrist. Sigrist was one of my professors in graduate school. Sigri...

I was saddened to hear today of the passing of Bezalel (Buzzy) Porten. I first encountered Porten's work in a very early article that he...

I have heard that many faculty members have advised Latter-day Saint students to get an M. Div. degree before getting a Ph.D. in biblical st...

Looking up a rather obscure point in biblical scholarship, I was struck by the differences between scholars on how they dealt with the probl...

 I was saddened to learn that Jan Assmann passed away yesterday. Three short memories: (1) After I presented a paper at the International Co...

It is not often that two of my alma maters appear prominently in the same piece of legal analysis. Eugene Volokh uses both in his argument a...