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June 2020

June 12, 2020

A Call for Compositions Setting Biblical Texts #CFP

Bob MacDonald is launching a project to turn the melodies that emerge from the text...

April 2020

April 18, 2020

Keep Up Your Biblical Aramaic and/or Hebrew in Two Minutes a Day

If the pandemic's isolation of us all persists for another three years, you'll be happy...

June 2019

June 19, 2019

Learning by Listening

I have been benefiting from audiobooks to no end, and I have been podcasting more...

December 2018

December 18, 2018

Hebrew Matthew and Hebrew Josephus

I was reminded a while back (actually, looking at when I first wrote a draft...

March 2018

March 01, 2018

Biblical Hebrew Vocabulary by Conceptual Categories

Anyone who has learned a language has worked with vocabulary lists. Sometimes these are provided...

September 2017

September 14, 2017

Dots, Marginalia and Peritexts in Middle Eastern Manuscripts Workshop

Dots, Marginalia and Peritexts in Middle Eastern Manuscripts Workshop Venue Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton...

June 2017

June 01, 2017

The Creation “Museum” vs. the Bible

Ben Stanhope drew the above photo of a display at the Creation Museum to my attention....

May 2017

May 11, 2017

Steve Reich, Tehillim

Indiana University has an interesting archive featuring Steve Reich's exploration of the Psalms. And the...

November 2016

November 22, 2016

Not in the Spaces We Know: An Exploration of Science Fiction and the Bible

Frauke Uhlenbruch organized and edited an issue of the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures which explores intersections...

June 2016

June 21, 2016

A Unique Hat

Joel Willits wore a very striking hat yesterday at the Enoch Seminar. Can you read...

September 2015

September 24, 2015

Strong Ability in Biblical Languages

As I sought feedback on the Swahili lyrics of Baba Yetu recently, one of the...

June 2015

June 06, 2015

Fundamentalists and Scholarship

I made the same point some years ago in a blog post. But the above...

May 2015

May 12, 2015

Bad Hebrew = Free Advertising

There is a blog dedicated to bad Hebrew tattoos. I had apparently neglected it for...

January 2015

January 03, 2015

Origen on Adam (Corrected)

Ken Brown pointed out that the image I shared misattributed the quotation to the wrong...

January 02, 2015

Jewish National and University Library Digitized Book Repository

Ancient World Online linked to the Jewish National and University Library Digitized Book Repository, which includes...

December 2014

December 12, 2014

The Very Model of a Biblical Philologist

Josh Tyra made this delightful video. David Lamb and Darrell Pursiful brought it to my attention....

May 2014

May 02, 2014

Hebrew’s 22 Words

How the article made it onto CNN, I have no idea. But they shared some...

April 2014

April 16, 2014

Hebrew Cannon

Via George Athas. I haven't seen the distinction between canon and cannon illustrated quite this...

January 2014

January 03, 2014

Two Shekel Chuck

It has been proposed that the above Hebrew inscription may have indicated that the vessel...

September 2013

September 26, 2013

Performing Ancient Texts in the Original Languages

My colleague Chris Bungard is one of the performers (the first you see) in the...

August 2013

August 17, 2013

A Hebrew Grammarian’s Real Answers in Genesis

Robert Holmstedt normally blogs about Hebrew grammar. But the nonsense Answers in Genesis spouts about the...

June 2013

June 25, 2013

Jacob as God?

The scripture reading in church on Sunday was from Psalm 24. Since the invention of...

September 2012

September 25, 2012

Is Jesus’ Wife Turning Into Thomas?

Discussion of the Gospel of Jesus' Wife continues full speed ahead on scholarly blogs, and...

September 12, 2012

Blogging BibleWorks 9, Part 1

I've decided that the best way to review and illustrate the capabilities of the BibleWorks...

August 2012

August 30, 2012

Lexicity

Thanks to Charles Jones for pointing out on the AWOL blog a great web site...

August 14, 2012

Blogging BibleWorks 9: Introduction

I am grateful to have been given the opportunity to do a blog review of...

June 2012

June 22, 2012

Ken Ham is a Con Artist and Wants Other Christians To Be Con Artists Too

The phrase "con artist" developed from the phrase "confidence man" which later became shortened to...

May 2012

May 23, 2012

The Importance of Language Learning Illustrated

This morning I had a useful illustration of why learning as much as you can...

March 2012

March 21, 2012

Hebrew Text on Darth Vader’s Armor?

A post that appeared today on IO9 drew to my attention a topic at the...

March 09, 2012

Translating (Away) The Son of God

I've been meaning for some time to come back to a topic that has been...

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