Jeremy Smoak on the Ketef Hinnom Silver Amulets

Jeremy Smoak writes for theTorah.com an interesting article on the apotropaic (protective magic) background of the silver amulets from Ketef Hinnom that preserve a version of the priestly blessing with slight differences from Numbers 6.

Catalogue of Biblical References in Incantation Bowls

Daniel James Waller (with contributions by Dorota Molin) has produced a very useful, open-access catalogue of biblical references in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic incantation bowls. These resources are often not well understood and researched by biblical scholars and textual critics, even though they sometimes contain the oldest materially attested forms of biblical passages.