(AsiaNews) In una lettera a firma del card. Bertone, Benedetto XVI esprime apprezzamento per l’iniziativa musulmana dei 138 studiosi islamici ed invita in Vaticano il promotore ed una delegazione degli autori. Va acquisito il comune impegno a promuovere reciproco rispetto e accettazione tra le giovani generazioni. (English version) (more..)

Lost to history for millennia, the Hittites have regained their position among the great civilizations of the Late Bronze Age Near East, thanks to a century of archaeological discovery and philological investigation. The Hittites and Their World provides a concise, current, and engaging introduction to the history, society, and religion of this Anatolian empire, taking the reader from its beginnings in the period of the Assyrian Colonies in the nineteenth century B.C.E. to the eclipse of the Neo-Hittite cities at the end of the eighth century B.C.E. The numerous analogues with the biblical world featured throughout the volume together represent a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the varied and significant contributions of Hittite studies to biblical interpretation.

Billie Jean Collins is Instructor in the Middle Eastern Studies at Emory University and Acquisitions Editor at the Society of Biblical Literature. She is the editor of A History of the Animal World in the Ancient Near East (Brill).

Hardback edition available from Brill Academic Publishers (www.brill.nl)

(Equinox) and Criticism of Heaven (Brill).

Hardback edition available from Brill Academic Publishers (www.brill.nl)

Si segnala questa iniziativa torinese dedicata alla Bibbia curata dal rabbino Dario Disegni negli anni ‘60 pubblicata inizialmente da Marietti e poi dalla Giuntina di Firenze. E’ un omaggio che si rende a Rav Dario Disegni a quarant’anni dalla sua scomparsa.

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Questo volume fa parte dell’opera “Logos. Corso di studi biblici”, i cui testi guidano studenti e lettori attraverso le questioni introduttive e lungo i percorsi dell’esegesi fino alla ricerca del significato permanente e attuale dei testi biblici. Il testo, arricchito nella sua seconda edizione, conduce i lettori a una prima esplorazione dei singoli libri, quindi alla conoscenza dei problemi relativi all’accostamento di alcuni testi più significativi, e infine all’approfondimento del messaggio emergente dai testi profetici.

The song was written in 2000 after the brutal lynching of two reserve soldiers in Ramalla.

Sarit Hadad

ANNAPOLIS, Md (Reuters) - With a handshake, leaders of the United States, Israel and the Palestinians agreed on Tuesday to immediately launch peace talks with the goal of reaching a final accord by the end of 2008.  Full Article

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(BBC) The US, Israeli and Palestinian leaders express guarded optimism in a conference on restarting a peace process. Read

History of failed peace talks  The possibilities of Annapolis  Q&A: Annapolis meeting