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10th North American Syriac Symposium

A rubbing made from a stone block found at the “Temple of the Cross” (Shizisi, 十字寺) in Fangshan District near Beijing, China. The stone block depicts an East Syrian cross intersecting a floral…

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Eve Krakowski and Marina Rustow awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities

The grants were part of a round of awards made to 81 humanities projects nationwide. The two Princeton grants are for projects connected with the University's Geniza Lab.

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Dem Megachurch Pastor Wins Kansas Senate Primary - Joe.My.God.

The New York Times reports: The Rev. Adam Hamilton, the pastor of the largest United Methodist congregation in the country, won the Democratic nomination for Senate in Kansas on Tuesday, according to…

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Wesley Bell wins Missouri House primary as Cori Bush comeback bid fails

Wesley Bell wins in St Louis rematch dominated by Israel-Palestine issue

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Classics and Public Policy: Perspectives from the United Kingdom

Classics and Public Policy: Perspectives from the United Kingdom Holmes-Henderson, Arlene (editor) This book is the first to connect Classi...

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“Haiti and the Holocaust”

“Haiti & the Holocaust” In 1938 at the Evian Conference, 32 countries refused to help Jewish refugees. Only one small Black Republic said YES.From 1937 to 1940, Haiti issued passports and visas…

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Book Review: The Lost Novel of King Solomon and the Demons

Artifacts related to Christian Apocrypha are exciting to discover. In them we see how apocryphal traditions are applied outside of or alongside the texts and ge

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Bread for the World

Reflecting on the Tenth Sunday after Pentecost: Three Days after Sunday (Year A)

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I Usually Laugh Off These AI Hacking Reports, but This One Sounds Serious and Scary

Okay, okay, joke's over.

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“Canceled” Standing Stone Discovered in Judah

Long before photos, journals, or smartphones, people preserved life’s defining moments in stone. In the Bible, the Israelite erected massebot—standing stone

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Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Graffiti Gazetteer at University of Oxford

Recruiting now: Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Graffiti Gazetteer on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

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The Frictionless Years - 3 Quarks Daily

by Lei Wang

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Oh Indiana-Again

I have frequently noted that economic development depends substantially upon a somewhat vague element we call “quality of life.” Quality of life can reflect a wide number of data points…

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Can AI really think like a scientist? - 3 Quarks Daily

by Ashutosh Jogalekar

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Thou Shalt Not … Amend the State Constitution?

With the arrival of August, people in several states are heading to the voting booths for important midterm primary elections, including Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, and Virginia today.

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Esther’s Army and the Search for Shalom

In our ongoing series about Katie Gaddini’s Esther’s Army, today’s post is by Amanda Vines.

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Rogier Boogaard and Arjan van den Os: Herod’s Sin in Acts 12

Rogier Boogaard and Arjan van den Os, “The Angel Strikes: The Sennacherib Narrative in 2 Kings 18-19 as a Background to Herod’s Death in Acts 12:20-23, NovT 68 (2026), 45-46. The nature…

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Senate panel to vote on Fauci contempt resolution after tense hearing

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) will vote Thursday on a resolution to hold former top health official Anthony Fauci in contempt following his hearing last we…

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ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children

Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.

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The 8 Romans who shaped the modern world | Mary Beard

Become a Big Think member to unlock expert classes, premium print issues, exclusive events and more:…

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Divided federal appeals court says Trump administration was wrong to terminate climate funds

A federal appeals court has ruled that the Trump administration improperly ended a multi-billion-dollar program for clean energy projects.

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FRC Attacks Talarico: Healthcare Is Not A Human Right - Joe.My.God.

From the Family Research Council’s website: Texas Senate candidate James Talarico (D) continues to display a Trumpian knack for stirring media coverage through controversy. But, unlike Trump, his…

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Ḥesed and Wine: More than a Definition, the Taste of a Story

Guest Writer: Dr. Jennifer Matheny (Truett/Baylor)

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Trump vowed to ‘bring free speech back.’ Judges in 75 cases ruled that he has stifled it

Aug 4 - U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly campaigned for his second term as a champion of free expression, vowing in his January 2025 inaugural address to stop what … Leggi

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NASA Backs Wild Plan for a Laser-Powered Drone to Explore Giant Caves Below the Moon's Surface

NASA awarded $175,000 for preliminary research into lunar cave-spelunking drones as part of $3.2 million dispersed via its “innovative advanced concepts” awards this summer.

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