I'm leaving tomorrow morning for a workshop at the Lorentz Center at the University of Leiden focusing linguistic databases for biblical texts and languages: Biblical Scholarship and Humanities Computing: Data Types, Text, Language and Interpretation I'm hoping that I'll have an opportunity to blog about it as we go, but I don't know what things... Continue Reading →
RBL Review of On Conditionals in the Greek Pentateuch
A book review of of Tjen Anwar’s On conditionals in the Greek Pentateuch: A study of translational syntax (PDF LINK) appeared in the RBL RSS feed this morning when I was doing my reading. It’s a good review, though it really doesn’t do much beyond summarizing the contents. That’s not a bad thing. At the... Continue Reading →
Radical Frame Semantics and Biblical Hebrew
This just popped up on Eisenbraun’s New & Noteworthy RSS feed: Radical Frame Semantics and Biblical Hebrew:Exploring Lexical Semantics by Stephen Shead. Biblical Interpretation Series - BIS 108 Brill Academic Publishers, 2011 List Price: $182.00 Your Price: $172.90 You save: $9.10 It’s depressingly expensive (as most Brill books are), but I’d say that it’ll also... Continue Reading →
Exegetical Payoff in Grammatical Research
Here's a question for you. It's one that I've been pondering for some time. Should placing a priority on exegetical payoff in linguistic & grammatical research be viewed as a strength or a weakness? Thoughts, anyone? It seems to me that there is a rather hefty group of NT scholars who would hold that linguistic... Continue Reading →
To All You OT Guys
Mike Heiser has just blogged about a number of Old Testament projects at Logos that are literally a handfull of orders away from going into production/development -- including the Göttingen LXX, the critical edition. Seriously awesome. HERE.
Grammar Mistakes in Hebrew Grammars
My wife showed this to me in her Hebrew grammar and my jaw dropped. I pulled a screen clipping off the Amazon preview of the first edition, which has the same mistake and I thought I’d share it with you: This is from page 108 in the first edition of Biblical Hebrew: A Text and... Continue Reading →
Poll on Translation & Hermeneutics
For sometime, I've been an advocate for people who do not know the original languages (& probably never will) to learn how to meaningfully look at and compare differences of translation, paragraphing, & formatting in using multiple translations rather than simply using a "literal" translation. But it has been only recently that I've realized that... Continue Reading →
Logos’ Biblical Languages Reference Collection
On my last post, Carl made an insightful comment -- one that I've had myself, though not as well put -- about this collection from Logos: Biblical Languages: Reference Grammars and Introductions (19 Vols.) He wrote, Frankly, that’s an absurdly large collection; I can see putting it in a package with other reference works that... Continue Reading →
Hebrew Grammar Question
My familiarity with introductory Hebrew grammars is rather lacking, so I'm interested in some comments. My wife is beginning first year Hebrew this next week and she'll be using: Biblical Hebrew, Second Ed. (Yale Language Series) by Bonnie Pedrotti Kittel, Victoria Hoffer, & Rebecca Abts Wright. Does anyone have any experience with this grammar and... Continue Reading →
