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Copying Early Christian Texts
A Study of Scribal Practice
[Die Vervielfältigung frühchristlicher Texte. Eine Untersuchung der Praxis des Abschreibens.]
2016. XX, 558 pages.
Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 362
159,00 €
Published in English.
It is widely believed that the early Christians copied their texts themselves without a great deal of expertise, and that some copyists introduced changes to support their theological beliefs. In this volume, however, Alan Mugridge examines all of the extant Greek papyri bearing Christian literature up to the end of the 4th century, as well as several comparative groups of papyri, and concludes that, on the whole, Christian texts, like most literary texts in the Roman world, were copied by trained scribes. Professional Christian scribes probably became more common after the time of Constantine, but this study suggests that in the early centuries the copyists of Christian texts in Greek were normally trained scribes, Christian or not, who reproduced those texts as part of their trade and, while they made mistakes, copied them as accurately as any other texts they were called upon to copy.
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Sunday, July 24, 2016
Mugridge, Copying Early Christian Texts
Review of Stebnicka, Identity of the Diaspora
Krystyna Stebnicka, Identity of the Diaspora: Jews in Asia Minor in the Imperial Period. JJP Supplement, 26. Warszawa: Journal of Juristic Papyrology, 2015. Pp. xi, 380. ISBN 9788393842568. €60.00.
Reviewed by Søren Lund Sørensen, Freie Universität Berlin (email@example.com)
Table of Contents
The book under review is a translation of Krystyna Stebnicka's work published in Polish in 2011.
In the introduction (3-13) Stebnicka concisely addresses the issue of sources. No preserved literary texts can with certainty be said to have been written by Jews of Asia Minor, and the scholar is thus heavily reliant on non-literary texts, i.e. the many inscriptions collected in IJO II.1 Ameling's corpus, Paul Trebilco's monograph on Jews in Asia Minor 2 and more recent studies have shown how different the Jewish communities were in the various diasporas. This, then, serves to justify the present study, which seeks to ask questions concerning Jewish identity in the diaspora of Asia Minor.
The Bible in the Syropalestinian version
AWOL: GOSHEN-GOTTSTEIN, The Bible in the Syropalestinian version. Cross-file under Aramaic Watch.
The Davka Talmud
THERES AN APP FOR THAT: Ancient Jewish Texts Now Accessible in English Talmud App.
[prMac.com] Chicago, Illinois - Davka Corporation today is proud to announce the release of the Soncino Hebrew-English Talmud for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. The Soncino Talmud presents the Talmud, the central text of Rabbinic Judaism, in Hebrew and English, together with a speedy search engine that allows users to search the text in both languages, quickly locate relevant results, and view full texts instantly.Past posts on other Talmud apps are here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
According to Rabbi Alan Rosenbaum, Vice-President of Davka Corporation, "The Soncino Hebrew-English Talmud makes Talmud study practical for on-the-go usage. It is affordable and easy to use."
In addition to the app's search capabilities, users can browse and study the texts, and mark, copy and email selections for future reference. The Soncino Talmud includes a number of useful features that make it versatile and powerful ...
The Sibylline Oracles
READING ACTS, having concluded its series on the ancient Books of Enoch, has begun a new series on ancient Old Testament pseudepigrapha, this one dealing with the Sibylline Oracles. The first post is: Introduction to the Sibylline Literature.
Past PaleoJudaica posts on the Sibylline Oracles are here and links, here, here, here, here, and here.
Past PaleoJudaica posts on the Sibylline Oracles are here and links, here, here, here, here, and here.
Saturday, July 23, 2016
Review of Gardner, Alcock, and Funk, Coptic Documentary Texts from Kellis, Vol. 2
Iain Gardner, Anthony Alcock, Wolf-Peter Funk, Coptic Documentary Texts from Kellis, Volume 2: P. Kellis VII (P. Kellis Copt. 57–131). Dakhleh Oasis project Monograph 16. Oxford; Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, 2014. Pp. 366 p.; 18 p. of plates, 1 CD-ROM. ISBN 9781782976516. $130.00.Cross-file under Coptic Watch and Manichean (Manichaean) Watch.
Reviewed by Malcolm Choat, Macquarie University (firstname.lastname@example.com)
When Mani's disciple Koustaios looked into the future soon after the apostle's death, he foresaw a great war, after which a new generation would arise, and find the scriptures and books of Mani (Homilies 7.8–42.8, see esp. 28–29). Even though Koustaios's hope that this would herald the final triumph of the Manichaean Church has not come to pass, his vision was partly fulfilled by the rediscovery of original Manichaean texts over the past century. In Egypt, in addition to the Medinet Madi codices in Berlin and Dublin and the 'Cologne Mani Codex', the last 25 years have witnessed the unearthing of the papers of a Manichaean community in the village of Kellis, modern Ismant el-Kharab in the Dakhleh Oasis, deep in the Western Desert.
This volume, which publishes 75 Coptic documentary texts, brings to a close the publication of Coptic texts from the site. It forms a companion to the first volume of Coptic Documentary Texts from Kellis (P.Kell. V, 1999, by the same editors), and should also be read alongside the two volumes of Kellis Literary Texts (P.Kell. II & VI, ed. Gardner 1996, 2007), and the Greek papyri from the site (especially P.Kell. I., ed. K.A. Worp, 1995). This long-awaited volume sheds light on (among other matters) the textile trade, Coptic epistolography, women's literacy, book copying, travel between valley and the Oasis, religion, and above all, the life of an extended family over several decades. It provides both a new perspective on previously published material and a major addition to the dossier of fourth-century Coptic documentary material.
Dandamaev, A political history of the Achaemenid Empire, rev. ed.
BIBLIOGRAPHICA IRANICA: A Political History of the Achaemenid Empire, new edition. Notice of a new edition of book that I have not noted before: Dandamaev, M. A. 2015. A political history of the Achaemenid Empire (Historical Library). Saint Petersburg: Academy of Cultural Studies. 3rd (2nd Russian) Edition. The revised edition, like the first edition, is in Russian, but the first edition has also been published in an English translation. Follow the link for details.
Cosmic secrets in 3 Enoch
READING ACTS: 3 Enoch and the Cosmic Secrets. Past posts in the series on the ancient books of Enoch, plus on related matters, are noted here and links. The series concludes with this post, but stay tuned!
Jerusalem Museum of Tolerance set for 2018 completion
Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem Moves Forward. Long embroiled in controversy, the troubled project now has 2018 as its completion date (Esther Hecht, Architectural Record).
Despite its tortuous history, the Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem is "rapidly progressing," according to its backer, the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center. "All of the building's concrete walls and floors are in place," the Center announced this month.The long story of the controversy is summarized briefly. The construction was begun in 2006 but halted after it became clear that it involved excavating from the Muslim Mamilla cemetery and objections were lodged. Decades ago a parking lot had already been built over the cemetery without objection, which did not make the situation less complicated. The go-ahead to resume construction was given in 2009, but other complications had arisen by then. My last post on the subject, in November of 2011, is here, with links leading back to 2006 when the controversy erupted. In 2011 construction had begun again. Things seem to have been pretty quiet since then, although I may have missed some coverage.
The news followed a long media silence regarding the controversial project, located at a prime site in central Jerusalem. Originally designed by Frank Gehry the museum was tied up in court for years and then abandoned by the architect. It was designed again, on a smaller scale, by the Israel-based Chyutin Architects, who also walked away from the project. The project is now in the hands of the Los Angeles office of Aedas and its Jerusalem-based project affiliate, Yigal Levi Architects.
According to the Center, the museum is set to be completed in time for the celebration of Israel's 70th Independence Day, in the spring of 2018. But the statement's optimistic tenor belied the project's troubled gestation and lack of clarity about its function.
More on claymation "Golem"
GOLEM WATCH: In 'Golem,' the Troupe 1927 Shares a Stage With a Claymation Co-Star (ERIC GRODE, NYT).
The company's dependence on useful but risky technology fits perfectly with the subject matter of "Golem," a fanciful adaptation of the ancient Jewish legend about a clay figure that eventually turns on its creator. In this telling, updated to confront the anxieties of our smartphone era, Golem is a lovable (at first) companion with a penchant for helpful tips that happen to favor certain brand names.About to be performed in the Sottile Theater at the College of Charleston in Charleston, S.C. PaleoJudaica mentioned this Golem production last month here. Follow the links there for many, many other past posts on the Golem legend.
"Although we are very reliant on the technology, we also dictate the technology and are constantly dirtying it up," said Suzanne Andrade, the author and director of "Golem," who created 1927 with Mr. Barritt. (The company takes its name from the year "The Jazz Singer," often described as the first full-length talking picture, had its premiere.) "But we are aware that this is a story that looks in on itself."
Friday, July 22, 2016
The Vossen Collection
ALIN SUCIU: The Vossen Collection of Coptic Manuscripts. Cross-file under Coptic Watch and New Testament Apocrypha Watch.
JEWISH STUDIES QUARTERLY has published a new issue (23.1):
Jewish Studies Quarterly (JSQ)
Editors: Leora Batnitzky (Princeton) and Ra'anan Boustan (University of California, Los Angeles)
Advisory Board: Steven Aschheim (Jerusalem), Elisheva Carlebach (New York), Michael Fishbane (Chicago), Christine Hayes (New Haven), Jeffrey Shandler (New Brunswick), Israel Yuval (Jerusalem)
Managing Editor: Sally Freedman (Princeton)
ISSN 0944-5706 (Print Edition)
ISSN 1868-6788 (Online Edition)
Founded by Peter Schäfer and Joseph Dan and established in 1993, Jewish Studies Quarterly (JSQ) offers studies of Jewish history, religion and culture.
Current Issue
Jewish Studies Quarterly (JSQ) Volume 23, Number 1, 2016
Matthew Goldstone, Rebuke and the Self-Acknowledged Limits of Rabbinic Authority; pp. 1-21(21)
Jonathan A. Pomeranz, "Seven Pits for the Good Man": Torah and Popular Wisdom in Rabbinic Babylonia; pp. 22-46(25)
Doron Forte, Back to the Sources: Alternative Versions of Maimonides' Letter to Samuel Ibn Tibbon and Their Neglected Significance; pp. 47-90(44)
Review of Masterson, Rabinowitz, and Robson (eds.), Sex in Antiquity
Mark Masterson, Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, James Robson (ed.), Sex in Antiquity: Exploring Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World. Rewriting antiquity. London; New York: Routledge, 2015. Pp. xx, 567. ISBN 9780415519410. $205.00.
Reviewed by F. Mira Green, University of Washington (firstname.lastname@example.com)
[Before I begin, I would like to apologize for the lateness of this review.]
The topic of sex has been recently getting a lot of action (ahem) in scholarship about the ancient world. Since the 1990s, many have turned their attention to questions about sex and sexuality in antiquity; this year alone has had a least three studies (including the one under review) on sex or sexual labor.1 In the introduction to their edited volume, Mark Masterson, Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, and James Robson observe that the study of gender and sex in the ancient world has entered a retrospective stage. They outline three major movements that mark the development of scholarship on the study of gender and sexuality in the past decades: the first movement (roughly 1978-1984) was a period when scholars began to recover historical women and engaged in feminist critique of male authors; the second phase (1990-1993) saw a joining of scholarship on gender and sexuality; and finally, the third (or current) one is often marked by the compiling, summarizing, and reflecting on past efforts of gender studies (4-6). The editors offer some caution about this trend and point to one of the main objectives of their volume: "Taking stock is always a good idea, but there is also a need for new work...We must always revisit and renegotiate our relationship with the past" (6-7). With this aim, the editors of and contributors to this volume offer insightful and sometimes unexpected conversations that take place between current and past scholarship, and provide opportunities to explore the trajectories that scholarship on sex, sexuality, and gender in antiquity might now take.
Angels in 3 Enoch
READING ACTS: Angelic Beings in 3 Enoch. Past posts in the series on the ancient books of Enoch, plus on related matters, are noted here and links.
Bauckham Festschrift
Congratulations to Richard Bauckham on this well-deserved recognition of his massive contribution to many fields, not least the study of early Christianity and ancient Judaism.
In the Fullness of TimeI am delighted to see that the Festschrift for my retired St. Andrews colleague Richard Bauckham is about to be released. The volume includes my essay, "The Book of Revelation and the Hekhalot Literature." You can find an earlier draft that I presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the SBL here and here.
Essays on Christology, Creation, and Eschatology in Honor of Richard Bauckham
Daniel M Gurtner
Grant Macaskill
Jonathan T Pennington
HARDCOVER; Coming Soon: 9/5/2016
286 Pages
Trim Size, in inches: 6 x 9
Cutting-edge reflections on a variety of biblical and theological subjects
Over the course of his distinguished career Richard Bauckham has made pioneering contributions to diverse areas of scholarship ranging from ethics and contemporary issues to hermeneutical problems and theology, often drawing together disciplines and fields of research all too commonly kept separate from one another.
In this volume some of the most eminent figures in modern biblical and theological scholarship present essays honoring Bauckham. Addressing a variety of subjects related to Christology, creation, and eschatology, the contributors develop elements of Bauckham's biblical and theological work further, present fresh research of their own to complement his work, and raise critical questions.
Congratulations to Richard Bauckham on this well-deserved recognition of his massive contribution to many fields, not least the study of early Christianity and ancient Judaism.
Thursday, July 21, 2016
Hebrew Ben Sira conference
"Discovering, Deciphering and Dissenting:Follow the link for further particulars. Bookings close on 10 August 2016. This is another one I wish I were able to attend.
Ben Sira's Hebrew Text, 1896-2016"
12-14 September 2016
St John's College, Cambridge
A conference on the 120th Anniversary of the Cairo Genizah Discoveries.
Sponsored by the Polonsky Co-Exist Fund, University of Cambridge and the ISDCL.
On the 120th anniversary of the discovery of the Genizah manuscripts of Ben Sira, this conference will consider the particular contributions of the Hebrew manuscripts of Ben Sira, in connection with the language and transmission of the book. Despite the existence of six versions in the Genizah as well as the scroll from Masada and two tiny fragments from Qumran, the characteristics of each Hebrew witness have been neglected and their palaeography is due for serious consideration.
In this light the conference will examine the features of individual manuscripts, the synoptic problems of the witnesses, their text-critical value and the history of the discoveries. It will also consider the place of the manuscripts in Jewish literary history, the Hebrew language of Ben Sira, and the interpretative character of the Hebrew.
Septuagint Studies Prize 2016
IOSCS: The John William Wevers Prize in Septuagint Studies.
The International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies (IOSCS) offers an annual prize of $350 to be awarded to an outstanding paper in the field of Septuagint studies. The prize has been named in memory of John William Wevers to honor his many contributions to Septuagint studies.The deadline for submission is 15 August 2016. Follow the link for further particulars.
The field of Septuagint studies is construed broadly, and a paper may focus on any aspect of the study of the Greek translation of the Jewish Scriptures. The IOSCS wants to encourage the study of these translations by younger scholars, and eligibility is thus limited to advanced graduate students or recent Ph.D. recipients (4 years or less after receiving the degree).
READING ACTS: Who is the Angel Metatron?. Past posts in the series on the ancient books of Enoch, plus on related matters, are noted here and links.
Incidentally, the OTP translator of 3 Enoch is Philip Alexander, not Anderson. I have a couple of old essays that deals with the archangel Metatron here (introductory) and here. They were published in revised form as a single article here. And for much, much more on Metatron in popular culture, run "Archangel Metatron Watch" through the PaleoJudaica search engine.
Incidentally, the OTP translator of 3 Enoch is Philip Alexander, not Anderson. I have a couple of old essays that deals with the archangel Metatron here (introductory) and here. They were published in revised form as a single article here. And for much, much more on Metatron in popular culture, run "Archangel Metatron Watch" through the PaleoJudaica search engine.
YONA SABAR: Hebrew word of the week: Payis (lot/lottery). Not specified in the column, but the word goes back to the Aramaic Targumim and the early Rabbinic literature.
Wednesday, July 20, 2016
Update on that auctioned shekel
JOSEPH I. LAUER has circulated an e-mail update concerning yesterday's auction of that shekel coin from the fourth year of the Great Revolt against Rome (66-70 CE) ("Results of the July 19 auction for the two Jewish War coins"):
For more on the coins auctioned yesterday and in 2012, see here and links.
The July 19 auction for the two Jewish War coins has ended.So, unlike the Great Revolt silver shekel auctioned several years ago, neither of these was a million dollar shekel.
The silver shekel from the fourth year of the Jewish War against Rome, with an opening price of $23,000 and an "Estimation" of $28,000 - $32,000, was not sold. See
The silver shekel from the second year of the Jewish War against Rome, with an opening price of $2,000 and an "Estimation" of $5,000 - $6,000, was sold for $5,280. See
For more on the coins auctioned yesterday and in 2012, see here and links.
Humbach and Faiss, Avestica
BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: Avestica. Notice of a new book: Humbach, Helmut & Klaus Faiss. 2016. Avestica. (Münchener Studien Zur Sprachwissenschaft. Beiheft NF 25). Dettelbach: Verlag J.H. Röll.
How many books in the Bible?
How Many Books are in the Bible? Qualitative Numbers, or Math for Biblical ScholarsIndeed. And then there are those 70 books books given to Ezra to share only with the wise of his people (4 Ezra 14:46). Hmmm ... 70. Do you think that could be a symbolic number too?
Josephus, the Jewish historian writing in Greek after the Jewish revolt in 70, tells us that the Jews have 22 sacred books—although he doesn't say precisely which ones. And the apocalypse Fourth Ezra mentions a revelation of 24 books. The numbers 22 and 24 also appear in later patristic Christian lists, and 24 is indeed the number of books in the rabbinic Bible…. Did Josephus have 22 specific titles in mind? Maybe. We cannot know. Either way, he, like the later writers, is working with an iconic number that exists prior to a particular catalog. To ask what exactly the 22 books were may not be the most interesting question. It's the number itself, not any specific list, that tells us more about the scriptural imagination of some Jews in antiquity.
See Also: The Literary Imagination in Jewish Antiquity (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016).
By Eva Mroczek
University of California, Davis
July 2016
Review of Dillery, Clio's Other Sons
John Dillery, Clio's Other Sons: Berossus and Manetho, with an afterword on Demetrius. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015. Pp. xxxviii, 494. ISBN 9780472052271. $50.00 (pb).
Reviewed by David Branscome, Florida State University (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Publisher's preview
It is a good time for Berossus of Babylon and for the Egyptian Manetho of Sebennytus. Both of these early Hellenistic native priests—who wrote (now fragmentary) histories of their respective homelands in Greek—have received a lot of scholarly attention recently.1 In the last decade and a half, Dillery himself has written a series of articles on Berossus and Manetho, which culminates in the book under review. The first monographic study that seeks to elucidate Berossus' historiographical context, aims, and methods by comparing them with those of Manetho (and vice versa), Clio's Other Sons represents a major contribution to several fields at once: Greek historiography in general, Hellenistic historiography in particular, and even Babylonian and Egyptian history.
Ancient Roman ports project
CONGRATULATIONS TO PROFESSOR KEAY: Honour for expert on Roman ports (Southern Daily Echo).
HE IS the man at the forefront of unearthing Europe's Roman ports.
Professor Simon Keay, of the University of Southampton, was awarded €2.49 million of European Research Council funding to study a large network of Roman ports in the Mediterranean – stretching from Turkey in the east, to Spain in the west.
Now Prof Keay has has been elected a fellow of the British Academy in recognition of his groundbreaking research.
In total, the Roman Mediterranean Ports project is examining 31 ports in nine different countries including Ephesus, Pitane and Kane in Turkey, Gades and Tarraco in Spain and Portus and Putroli in Italy.
The project will use satellite imagery and archaeological data to study the remaining 23 ports in France, Egypt, Tunisia, Italy, Spain, Turkey, Libya, Israel and Greece.
Prof Keay is leading the project in very close collaboration with ancient historian professor Pascal Arnaud from the Université de Lyon La Lumière, France, and will analyse key Greek and Latin texts to find out more about the ports. His 15 years of re-search into Roman ports has culminated in this project.
Research will last until 2018 and will concentrate on the first two centuries AD, considering the layout, activities, hierarchies and commercial and social connections made between Roman ports.
3 Enoch
READING ACTS: What is 3 Enoch?. Past posts in the series on the ancient books of Enoch, plus on related matters, are noted here and links.
I would not advise using 3 Enoch as background to the New Testament. For some more or less relevant reflections, see my 2008 SBL paper The Book of Revelation and the Hekhalot Literature (also here) and my recent comments on Catrin Williams's Enoch Seminar paper here.
I would not advise using 3 Enoch as background to the New Testament. For some more or less relevant reflections, see my 2008 SBL paper The Book of Revelation and the Hekhalot Literature (also here) and my recent comments on Catrin Williams's Enoch Seminar paper here.
Tuesday, July 19, 2016
Abgar family tomb in Urfa necropolis?
SYRIAC WATCH: World's largest necropolis in Turkey's southeast (ŞANLIURFA – Doğan News Agency/ Hürriyet Daily News).
Cross-file under New Testament Apocrypha Watch.
A large number of expansive rock tombs which could constitute part of the world's largest necropolis have been discovered during work carried out by the Şanlıurfa Municipality around the historic Urfa Castle in southeastern Turkey."Urfa" is the modern name for ancient Edessa, the city whose Aramaic dialect (Syriac) became the language of Eastern Christianity.
Among the newly found tombs, one was situated on the highest part of the castle's hill and was bigger than the other tombs. It was estimated to have belonged to the nobles of Edessa King Abgar's family. The tomb had rooms for 10 people. Also, floor mosaics were found in one of the tombs.The Abgar dynasty is best known from the apocryphal correspondence between Jesus and King Abgar V, preserved by Eusebius in Greek and in other manuscripts in Syriac. The article does not explain why the tombs are connected with the Abgar dynasty.
Syriac inscriptions and fine engravings can also be seen in another tomb in the area.Back in 2009 I noted the report of another Syriac inscription discovered in Urfa. Most of the links have rotted, but follow the Hygoye link to see a photo of the inscription.
Cross-file under New Testament Apocrypha Watch.
More on the goring ox in the Talmud
THIS WEEK'S DAF YOMI COLUMN BY ADAM KIRSCH IN TABLET: Tied Up in Knots Over a Goring Ox. In this week's 'Daf Yomi,' the Talmud tries to make sense of an incoherent Biblical law about awarding damages.
In this week's Daf Yomi reading, the Talmud continued to elaborate the laws about how to deal with a goring ox. The original biblical statement of this law, in the Book of Exodus, is the origin of the concepts of negligence and due care in halakhah. The owner of an ox that goes wild and kills another ox or a person is not held responsible for its actions; the ox itself is to be killed, but its owner does not have to pay damages. If, on the other hand, that ox has a history of goring, and the owner does not take any precautions for restraining it, then he becomes liable for the damage or death it may cause. It is a simple and fair principle, but as often happens, the rabbis of Talmud find that it does not cover all the many complications that may arise in real life, or in the curious minds of the commentators.Earlier Daf Yomi columns are noted here and links.
Rare coin from the Great Revolt being auctioned
NUMISMATICS: Rare Bar Kochba [sic!] shekel offered for sale. Winner's prepares to auction off rare coin from fourth year of Bar Kochva [sic!] revolt, expected to fetch $28,000 to $32,000 (Eliran Aharon, Arutz Sheva).
For the sale several years ago of an even rarer shekel coin from year one of the Great Revolt, see here and links.
As always with the sale of rare artifacts, I encourage the buyer to make the object available to scholars for study and to a museum for display (or even to donate it to a museum!).
UPDATE (20 July): more here.
Winner's auction house is offering a unique item for sale: a rare shekel decorated with a cup containing nine dots.Joseph Lauer has circulated corrections to this story, which has been misreported in a number of places. The revolt in 66-70 CE was the First Jewish Revolt or the Great Revolt. The Bar Kokhba Revolt was in 132-135 CE. An earlier version of this post, covering a different article, went up briefly before I saw his correction. Sorry for the error.
The early Hebrew inscription "Israel shekel" surrounds the cup, above which is an abbreviation for "Year Four," showing that the coin was minted in the fourth year of the Bar Kochba rebellion.
The reverse side shows a branch with three stylized pomegranates surrounded by the inscription "Holy Jerusalem." The coin weighs 13.55 grams and is 22 millimeters in diameter.
The Bar Kochba rebellion (66-70 CE) holds a significant place in Jewish history for its tragic results, included the country's complete destruction, the murder of numerous Jews and the destruction of the second Temple.
For the sale several years ago of an even rarer shekel coin from year one of the Great Revolt, see here and links.
As always with the sale of rare artifacts, I encourage the buyer to make the object available to scholars for study and to a museum for display (or even to donate it to a museum!).
UPDATE (20 July): more here.
On that "unprecedented" Philistine cemetery
ARCHAEOLOGY: First Ever? Discovery of Philistine Cemetery Draws Criticism (Owen Jarus, LiveScience).
A 3,000-year-old graveyard with the bones of about 200 individuals discovered in Ashkelon, Israel, is being hailed as the first (and only) Philistine cemetery ever found.Follow the link for details. Background here.
However, experts not affiliated with the excavations are not yet convinced of the claim, saying that the identity of the people buried at the Ashkelon cemetery is not clear-cut and the finding itself has not been published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal. Further muddying the waters, other burials found in known Philistine cities, though never confirmed, also have dibs on the title of "first-discovered Philistine cemetery."
2 Enoch 64-73
READING ACTS: Enoch and the Birth of Melchizedek – 2 Enoch 64-73. Past posts in the series on the ancient books of Enoch, plus on related matters, are noted here and links.
Monday, July 18, 2016
The Roman Jewish catacombs
NOW WITH OPEN DAYS: Inside the catacombs, buried history ties Jews to ancient Rome. Rich with symbolism, the mysterious underground chambers tell an unfinished tale of communal Jewish life 1,800 years ago (ROSSELLA TERCATIN, Times of Israel).
But the Catacombe di Vigna Randanini is unique compared to the dozens of Christian catacombs in the city: only a few meters into the site, in a cramped, painted chamber, a large brick-red menorah is silhouetted against the upper part of the wall in stark contrast to the stone and earth surroundings.Not a new story, but this article has lots of interesting discussion of the site and some good photos. Past PaleoJudaica posts on the Jewish catacombs in Rome are here, here, and here.
To reach the menorah's chamber, visitors must descend into the ground. With flashlights as the only source of illumination, the small staircase that separates the bright summer day from the dark, cold gallery is like a time machine to Ancient Rome.
Over the centuries, robbers and explorers have stripped this catacomb of most its content — the bones of those who were buried here, the decorations, the objects left by the mourners. But the hundreds of loculi (burial niches) excavated in the walls are still in situ, together with dozens of inscriptions, fragments of artifacts, and evocative frescoes which bear witness to how Roman Jews lived and died 1,800 years ago.
"The chamber with the painted menorah was the private chapel of a prominent family. There used to be a sarcophagus for the head of the family," caretaker Alberto Marcocci tells The Times of Israel.
Secunda goes to Bard
CONGRATULATIONS TO SHAI SECUNDA: Distinguished Scholar of Religion Shai Secunda To Join Bard College Faculty.
ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.—Bard College announces the appointment of Shai Secunda as the Jacob Neusner Professor in the History and Theology of Judaism. Secunda, who joins the faculty in fall 2016, is a specialist in Talmudic and Judaic studies and will teach courses in Jewish Studies and other topics through the Religion Program at Bard. An endowed chair, the Jacob Neusner Professor in the History and Theology of Judaism was established in recognition of Neusner's distinguished contributions to the field and to Bard College.Professor Secunda is well known to PaleoJudaica readers for his posts at the Talmud Blog and for his book, The Iranian Talmud. He was here in St. Andrews a could of years ago for the Iranian Kingship Workshop. Congratulations both to him and to Bard College.
"I am thrilled to join the Bard faculty, and I am deeply honored to accept the Neusner chair," says Secunda. "Half a century ago, Jacob Neusner, one of the 20th century's most influential scholars, invested immense efforts toward taking Jewish studies out of its parochial past and putting it in dialogue with religious studies. I hope I can build on Neusner's legacy and work to further integrate the study of classical Judaism and Jewish literature within the contemporary humanities, as exemplified by Bard's invigorating liberal arts setting."
Ethnocentric law in the Talmud
LAST WEEK'S DAF YOMI COLUMN BY ADAM KIRSCH IN TABLET: One Law for Jews, Another Law for Gentiles. In this week's 'Daf Yomi,' non-Jews are denied equal protection under the rules of the Talmud.
Earlier Daf Yomi columns are noted here and links.
This is all clear enough, so long as both ox-owners are Jews. But what if a Jew's ox kills a gentile's ox, or vice versa? I imagine this situation couldn't have arisen very often in ancient times, since Jews would usually have lived among Jews. Even if it did arise, I don't know whether the gentile involved would have been judged by Jewish law. Presumably a Roman or Persian involved in a dispute with a Jew would have gone to a government official, not a Jewish judge. But still the question remains: Does Talmudic law treat Jew and gentile the same, or is there a legal difference in their status, even when it comes to non-ritual matters like this one?Ethnocentrism was the norm in antiquity. The ancients lived in a very different world from ours.
In this case, there is no avoiding the fact that the Talmud is heavily biased in favor of the Jew against the gentile. The mishna in Bava Kamma 37b says, "With regard to an ox of a Jew that gored the ox of a gentile, the owner of the belligerent ox is exempt from liability. But with regard to an ox of a gentile that gored the ox of a Jew, regardless of whether the goring ox was innocuous or forewarned, the owner of the ox pays the full cost of the damage." In other words, a gentile doesn't even benefit from the rule about an innocuous ox costing only half the damages; his ox is automatically considered forewarned and so responsible for full damages. But a Jew's ox can hurt a gentile's ox with impunity.
The inequity here is blatant—so much so that the rabbis of the Gemara are made distinctly uncomfortable by it. ...
Earlier Daf Yomi columns are noted here and links.
News on the Mt.t Zion excavation
EXCAVATION: Archaeologists Uncover Second Temple-era Priestly Quarter of Jerusalem. Luxuries, like a bathtub, signal that the 2000-year old house being dug up in Mt. Zion, near Caiaphas' home, belonged to a member of the ruling class (Philippe Bohstrom, Haaretz).
Archaeologists excavating in the heart of ancient Jerusalem have begun to uncover the neighborhood that housed the elite 2,000 years ago – most probably the priestly ruling class.Long article. Read it all. Past posts on the Mt. Zion excavation, with special attention to the inscribed cup, are here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
One of the houses had its own cistern, a mikveh (a Jewish ritual bathing pool), a barrel-vaulted ceiling and a chamber with three bread ovens.
Inside a room found with its ceiling intact was a bathtub – an extremely rare luxury that commoners of the time could not afford.
Bathtubs, as opposed to ritual dipping pools, have so far only been found at King Herod's palaces in Masada and Jericho, and in the so-called "Priestly Mansion" in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem.
"It's clear from the finds that the people living here were wealthy, aristocrats or perhaps even priests," Prof. Shimon Gibson, co-director of the excavations, told Haaretz.
A ritual stone cup with a priestly inscription, used for purification rituals, also found there supports the archaeologist's theory that this area was the Priestly Quarter of ancient Jerusalem.
"Caiaphas' house has been located. It's up on the hill not far from our site," Gibson points out in additional support of the thesis.
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Flames raced through a crowded nightclub in southern Brazil, killing more than 230 people, stampeding toward a single exit partially blocked by those already dead.
It appeared to be the world's deadliest nightclub fire in more than a decade.
Witnesses said a flare or firework lit by band members may have started the blaze in Santa Maria, a major university city of about 225,000 people.
Television images showed smoke pouring out of the Kiss nightclub as shirtless young men who had attended a university party joined firefighters using axes and sledgehammers to pound at windows and walls to free those trapped inside.
Guido Pedroso Melo, commander of the city's fire department, told the O Globo newspaper that firefighters had a hard time getting inside the club because ''there was a barrier of bodies blocking the entrance.''
Teenagers sprinted from the scene desperately seeking help. Others carried injured and burned friends away in their arms.
''There was so much smoke and fire, it was complete panic, and it took a long time for people to get out, there were so many dead,'' survivor Luana Santos Silva told the Globo TV network.
The fire spread so fast inside the packed club that firefighters and ambulances could do little to stop it, Silva said.
Another survivor, Michele Pereira, told the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper that she was near the stage when members of the band lit flares that started the conflagration.
''The band that was onstage began to use flares and, suddenly, they stopped the show and pointed them upward,'' she said. ''At that point, the ceiling caught fire. It was really weak, but in a matter of seconds it spread.''
Guitarist Rodrigo Martins told Radio Gaucha that the band, Gurizada Fandangueira, started playing at 2.15am (5pm NZT) ''and we had played around five songs when I looked up and noticed the roof was burning''.
''It might have happened because of the Sputnik, the machine we use to create a luminous effect with sparks. It's harmless, we never had any trouble with it.''
When the fire started, a guard passed us a fire extinguisher, the singer tried to use it but it wasn't working.''
He confirmed that accordion player Danilo Jacques, 28, died, while the five other members made it out safely.
Police Major Cleberson Braida Bastianello said by telephone that the toll had risen to 233 with the death of a hospitalised victim. Officials counted 232 bodies that had been brought for identification to a gymnasium in Santa Maria, which is located at the southern tip of Brazil, near the borders with Argentina and Uruguay.
An earlier count put the number of dead at 245.
Federal Health Minister Alexandre Padhilha told a news conference that most of the 117 people treated in hospitals had been poisoned by gases they breathed during the fire. Only a few suffered serious burns, he said.
Brazil President Dilma Rousseff arrived to visit the injured after cutting short her trip to a Latin American-European summit in Chile.''It is a tragedy for all of us,'' Roussef said.
Most of the dead apparently suffocated, according to Dr. Paulo Afonso Beltrame, a professor at the medical school of the Federal University of Santa Maria who went to the city's Caridade Hospital to help victims.
Beltrame said he was told the club had been filled far beyond its capacity during a party for students at the university's agronomy department.
Survivors, police and firefighters gave the same account of a band member setting the ceiling's soundproofing ablaze, he said.
''Large amounts of toxic smoke quickly filled the room, and I would say that at least 90 per cent of the victims died of asphyxiation,'' Beltrame said.
''The toxic smoke made people lose their sense of direction so they were unable to find their way to the exit. At least 50 bodies were found inside a bathroom. Apparently they confused the bathroom door with the exit door.''
In the hospital, the doctor ''saw desperate friends and relatives walking and running down the corridors looking for information,'' he said, calling it ''one of the saddest scenes I have ever witnessed''.
Rodrigo Moura, identified by the newspaper Diario de Santa Maria as a security guard at the club, said it was at its maximum capacity of between 1000 and 2000, and partygoers were pushing and shoving to escape.
Santa Maria Mayor Cezar Schirmer declared a 30-day mourning period, and Tarso Genro, the governor of the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, said officials were investigating the cause of the disaster.
The blaze was the deadliest in Brazil since at least 1961, when a fire that swept through a circus killed 503 people in Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro.
Sunday's fire also appeared to be the worst at a nightclub since December 2000, when a welding accident reportedly set off a fire at a club in Luoyang, China, killing 309.
In 2004, at least 194 people died in a fire at an overcrowded nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Seven members of a band were sentenced to prison for starting the flames.
Several years later, in December 2009, a blaze at the Lame Horse nightclub in Perm, Russia, killed 152 people after an indoor fireworks display ignited a plastic ceiling decorated with branches.
Similar circumstances led to a 2003 nightclub fire that killed 100 people in the United States. Pyrotechnics used as a stage prop by the 1980s rock band Great White set ablaze cheap soundproofing foam on the walls and ceiling of a Rhode Island music venue.
The band performing in Santa Maria, Gurizada Fandangueira, plays a driving mixture of local Brazilian country music styles. Guitarist Martin told Radio Gaucha the musicians are already seeing hostile messages.
''People on the social networks are saying we have to pay for what happened,'' he said. ''I'm afraid there could be retaliation''.
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Darrelle Revis.
Signed. Sealed. Delivered.
Ben Roethlisberger.
Matt Leinart.
Good luck with that, Texans.
Brett Favre.
You're excused for believing those were the most compelling stories of the NFL's most colorful offseason. Even toss in T.O.'s fretting, Albert Haynesworth's tests (and possible starring role in Return to the Titans) and Ochocinco's tweeting and you're still off base.
Those may have been the loudest headlines, the moves that kept local sports talk shows buzzing and the names that led "SportsCenter" most nights. But the most intriguing -- and potentially the most impactful -- storyline is still unfolding in Oakland.
Yes, Oakland, capital of Raider Nation.
For years the place hasn't produced compelling football, though the Raiders have been the source of enough horror tales to terrorize Harry Potter until he qualifies for Social Security. So it's easy to overlook this one. But as the 2010 NFL season begins few sagas will be worth following more than the fate of Jason Campbell, the Raiders' new QB.
Oakland isn't the only team with a new man behind center, but no team's need for leadership (and just plain old competence) is as dire. Campell, who was obtained in a trade with Washington in April for a fourth-round pick, may be the team's best QB since, oh, Rich Gannon, who's the last Raiders QB to lead the team to a winning record (11-5 in the 2002 regular season).
Campbell won't make anyone forget Kenny Stabler or Jim Plunkett, but he just might help Raider faithful forget about (or at least heal from) JaMarcus Russell.
Like Gannon, Campbell isn't flashy, just solid. He has 55 touchdown passes with just 38 interceptions since being drafted in the first round in 2005. (His ratio is akin to Gannons' 180 TDs and 104 INTs.)
He's started 52 games and has a career passing rating of 82.3. (Gannon's career rating was 84.7. Russell's, in three abysmal seasons, was 65.2, and the 50.0 he recorded last season was the lowest in 11 NFL seasons.)
Most important to Raiders fans, Campbell is only 28 and on the upswing. He's improved in completion percentage, touchdowns and QB rating in each of his four pro seasons while playing under four different offensive coordinators. "I feel I can be a pretty good quarterback in this league. It's a new beginning," he told the San Jose Mercury News this week. "It would mean the world to me if I could help turn around the Raiders."
Reality check: Campbell's record as a starter is a loathsome 20-32, not exactly Gannonesque (45-29 in six seasons as a Raider). And he's been sacked more times (102) than Samantha Jones (yes, gratuitous "Sex and the City" reference!).
Moreover he was not without his critics in Washington, where he never seemed to be as good as fill-in-the-blank desired quarterback. If there was a quarterback Washington didn't try to obtain while Campbell was there, please raise your hand ... thought so.
Still, Campbell's better than any of Oakland's alternatives. His success is vital for the franchise, which has had only three winning seasons in its last 15. The Raiders' 3-1 preseason record, which included a win over Dallas, has fans practically hyperventilating.
Oakland has been the NFL's laughing stock, the league's version of the Clippers. And that's a shame for a team with such a storied pro football history, one that piqued sports fans across the nation at a time when the league was growing into a true national sport.
Love 'em or not, the Raiders were vital to that growth and are one of the game's defining franchises.
• Iconoclastic owner, Al Davis.
• Legends such as Stabler, Plunkett, Howie Long, Art Shell, Fred Biletnikoff and the late Gene Upshaw. (The busts of 13 Raiders players or coaches sit in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.)
• Frenzied fans who transform every fall Sunday into Halloween in the East Bay.
And the NFL needs them. It needs the Raiders to be good.
Believe it or not, these are fragile times for the most formidable juggernaut in sports. The recession and its uncertain aftermath have sacked values throughout the league. Last month, Forbes reported that 21 of 32 teams saw their overall value drop in the last year and that the average value of NFL teams declined 2 percent, the first slide since the magazine began tracking franchise values 12 years ago.
(Not surprisingly, the Raiders, valued at just $758 million, were valued higher than only one team, Jacksonville.)
Non-broadcast revenue also declined because of diminishing corporate sponsorships and ticket prices blindsided by market forces.
It all means that now, for the first time in a long time, the NFL must be certain is does not lose the typical fan who can't afford a ticket, or maybe even one of the fancy television packages.
And to retain that guy, teams like the Raiders need to be solid not silly. "To attract the casual fan, it helps to have the brand teams do well," says Kevin Sullivan, a Dallas-based strategic communications consultant. "Dynasties, as much as we love to hate them, are good for business."
And not just at the turnstiles. This summer the Licensing Letter, which tracks the industry, predicted that major league baseball will sell slightly more licensed merchandise ($2.75 billion) that the NFL ($2.7 billion).
The Raiders are the original bad boys in black and one of the league's premier "national" teams, along with Dallas, Green Bay and now the New Orleans Saints. Their merchandise was once the top-selling NFL brand. No longer. The most recent Turnkey Team Brand Index ranked the Raiders 90th among 120 North American pro sports franchises.
For that to change, the Raiders need to just win, baby. "[They're] still a national brand," says Sullivan. "But to sell merchandise you have to win. When they win again, you'll start seeing more Raiders gear."
With Campbell, the Raiders finally have a chance to regain at least a portion of their past glory.
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Roy S. Johnson, a veteran sports journalist and media consultant, is the editor-in-chief of Men's Fitness. His blog is Ballers, Gamers and Scoundrels.


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The author and the illustrator of THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH--together again!
This is the story of a really rotten Ogre who is extraordinarily large, exceedingly ugly, unusually angry, constantly hungry, and absolutely merciless. He terrorizes the entire countryside and all the surrounding towns, wreaking havoc, sowing confusion, and dining happily on the hapless citizens. Nothing can stop him. But then he takes a wrong turn and encounters a kind and friendly young lady who does her best to help him--with a surprising result.
Jules Feiffer is a cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter, children's book author and illustrator, and member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He teaches a humor-writing class at Stony Brook Southampton College and lives in East Hampton, New York.
In the early 1960s, writer Norton Juster and illustrator Jules Feiffer created The Phantom Tollbooth, which quickly became a kid-lit classic. Now, 50 years later, the two have finally collaborated once more -- this time, on a picture book called The Odious Ogre. They speak to NPR's Liane Hansen about their partnership and their new project. More at NPR.org
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CS102B R for Biologists, Level 2
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Taught in the context of biological research, this course helps biologists understand the data analysis and visualization language R. It is a continuation of CS101B R for Biologists, Level 1 and covers advanced topics and projects.
Course outline
Basic R commands for loading, manipulating and visualizing data
- How to create, manage and visualize data in R objects – vectors, matrices, data frames, lists
- Good programming practices
- Specials notes, shortcuts, and basic commands that you may have forgotten
Project: create a function that will compute the t-statistic, fold change, difference and p-value for all genes, and filter the data to keep the up- or down-regulated genes.
Case studies in linear regression, t-test, anova
Advanced graphics with par()
Bioconductor objects and algorithms, and getting differentially regulated genes from Affymetrix CEL files
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Project: use limmaGUI or affylmGUI datasets to perform an analysis.
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Technical Requirements: Since this will be an interactive, hands-on workshop, all attendees will need a computer with a broadband Internet connection (1 Mbps or faster is strongly recommended for those watching the live lecture), a sound card with speakers, a modern Web browser, and the Adobe Flash plugin. Please check the specific system requirements for your computer. A microphone and webcam is not required for this course. The necessary software, lecture notes and exercises will be provided.
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Students should have taken CS101B R for Biologists, Level 1 or have equivalent experience.
This course is certified by the Bioinformatics Organization, Inc., the largest international affiliation in the field, and it will count as 8 "Continuing Scientific Education" (CSE) credits (one credit per contact hour) within the Organization. Students completing the course will receive a certificate attesting to that.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Shocking early season NFL developments:
The Cleveland Browns haven't been voted out of league. The Detroit Lions end 19-game losing streak. Lawrence Taylor does weight-loss TV ad while wearing white suspenders.
And Mark Sanchez is human. And also undefeated.
"The Sanchise," which is what they're calling the New York Jets quarterback these days, finally discovered there are two sides to being a rookie. He could laugh (sort of) about it later, but the bottom line is that the J-e-t-s are t-h-r-e-e-and-zero, and Sanchez is still alive to discuss the streak.
Rookie quarterbacks, especially ones who signed the largest contract in team history, aren't supposed to Brandon Jacobs it at the goal line, lower their heads and try to power blast their way into the end zone. But that's what Sanchez did during the first quarter of what eventually became a 24-17 Jets victory Sunday against the still-winless Tennessee Titans.
He lived to tell about it, but usually those kinds of plays end with CT scans and the quarterback having his head and helmet Super Glued back to his body. But Sanchez can do no wrong during his rookie season -- and even when he does, the Jets recover.
"I'm loving every part of this," Sanchez said. "This is all I could ever dream of."
Unbeaten and still conscious -- what a deal.
Sanchez's 14-yard TD scramble was the kind of play that earns you lots of respect in a veteran locker room such as the Jets'. Alan Faneca, the New York guard who has spent 12 years in the NFL, told Sanchez, "Nice run." Linebacker Bart Scott, an eight-year vet, praised Sanchez's grit. And Scott, who would marry a microphone if he could find a pastor to recite the vows, happily mocked the Titans defender (safety Michael Griffin) who got super-sized posterized by Sanchez.
"I think that guy should be embarrassed," Scott said. "They should make it a Fathead."
If they do, Jets rookie coach Rex Ryan will buy one and hang it on his office wall.
"Don't let Woody know that I said it was great," said Ryan of the run.
That would be Jets chairman Woody Johnson, the guy who signed off on the draft-day deal that got them the No. 5 overall pick from, sigh, the Browns. Johnson is also the guy who approved the monster, five-year, $50 million contract ($28 million guaranteed) for Sanchez.
So far, Sanchez has been worth every wonderful green Jets dollar. At times -- and Titans coach Jeff Fisher said this earlier last week -- Sanchez plays as if he's been in the league six years. Other times -- and everyone, including the rain-drenched crowd at Giants Stadium could see it on Sunday -- he plays like a rookie in need of a brown paper bag and hyperventilation lessons.
Not that the Jets are complaining.
"You're asking somebody that went one game from the Super Bowl last year with a rookie quarterback," said Scott, who played a season ago with first-year QB Joe Flacco. "You got a rookie quarterback with a helluva team behind him. He's not going to have great games all the time. He's not going to have high-percentage completions all the time. But one thing you can bet on is that we've got his back."
Sanchez went 17-of-30 for 171 yards, with two passing touchdowns, one rushing score, one interception and two fumbles (one lost). It was an uneven performance, the kind of performance every rookie is required to endure.
The difference is that Sanchez didn't melt into a puddle of nerves. He is a rookie, said Jets wide receiver Wallace Wright, "But he's not a rookie anymore."
Understand? In short, the Jets don't have time to hold hands or nurse their quarterback.
This was only Sanchez's third regular-season pro start and, including his days at USC, only his 19th start in the past four years. During Sunday's game he was amazing (the TD scramble) and clueless (holding the ball out on the run like it was radioactive).
"Tuck the ball away," fullback Tony Richardson told him after the play.
"OK, OK, T.R., I will,'' Sanchez said.
Recalling the exchange, Richardson couldn't help but smile.
"He was so excited," he said.
The feeling is mutual. The Jets are 3-0 and it's not like they've beaten up on slugs. They won at Houston in the opener. They popped off about the New England Patriots and backed it up with a win. And they just beat one of the great 0-3 teams in NFL history -- and they did it with a rookie quarterback and after blowing a 14-0 lead. In Week 4 they face the unbeaten Saints in New Orleans.
"I'm not winning these games," Sanchez said. "We are winning these games."
But we didn't crash land into the end zone, Sanchez did. He figures it was his longest TD run since playing at Mission Viejo (Calif.) High School. We didn't execute a perfect fake handoff and then lob a pass to tight end Ben Hartsock for the Jets' second score. And we didn't notice the weakside safety inching up to blitz late in the third quarter, Sanchez did. Which is why he checked off and then threw a four-seam fastball to wide receiver Jerricho Cotchery on a quick slant in the end zone. That TD pass turned out to be the game winner.
"The young buck did a great job," said Cotchery, who also caught a perfectly thrown, over-the-outside-shoulder, 46-yard pass from Sanchez that set up a Jets fourth-quarter field goal.
Sanchez's NFL career is only three games old, but there's lots to like about what he does and how he does it. But if he needs any reminders of how quickly it can all change, he simply has to look at the Titans' inactive list. Among the eight Tennessee players on the list was none other than Vince Young, a Titans team captain in 2007 and the league's offensive rookie of the year in 2006.
Now he's a quarterbacking afterthought.
But why ruin the moment with reality? For now, Sanchez is the quarterback of only the fourth 3-0 Jets team in franchise history. He's the first rookie QB in 40 years to win his first three starts. And, oh yeah, Scott said he had grit.
"That's pretty special to me," Sanchez said. "He knows guys who have it, guys who don't."
Sanchez has it. He also has the Jets atop the AFC East standings. And that's all Jets followers could ever dream of.
Gene Wojciechowski is the senior national columnist for ESPN.com. You can contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com. Hear Gene's podcasts and ESPN Radio appearances by clicking here.


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Overnight Marinated West Coast Round Steak
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|Teriyaki sauce
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|Barbecue sauce
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Cut steak into serving size pieces, removing excess fat.
Pound both sides with meat mallet or edge of saucer.
Place meat in baking dish.
Combine teriyaki sauce, water and barbecue sauce.
Pour over meat.
Let stand covered in refrigerator overnight, turning meat once or twice.
Preheat browning dish at High 5 minutes.
Add butter and steak.
Microwave at High 15 seconds; turn steak pieces over.
Add onions.
Reduce power to 50% (Medium).
Microwave 12 to 18 minutes, or until meat is fork tender, turning meat once.
Let stand 5 to 10 minutes.
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Calories 1731 Calories from Fat 668
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 75 g114.9%
Saturated Fat 33.6 g168.2%
Trans Fat 1.5 g
Cholesterol 617.9 mg206%
Sodium 1144.5 mg47.7%
Total Carbohydrates 54 g17.8%
Dietary Fiber 3.5 g14%
Sugars 22.9 g
Protein 198 g396.8%
Vitamin A 26.4% Vitamin C 34.8%
Calcium 10% Iron 130%
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