Here is the abstract for my IOTS paper: The Use of “Eschatological Lists” within the Targumim to the Megillot. Several of the targumim to the Megillot contain lists (songs, famines, kings, etc.) that culminate in the future or messianic era. For example, TgSS opens with the list of Ten Songs […]
Monthly Archives: June 2007
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The schedule for the Vth Congress of the International Organization for Targumic Studies (IOTS) is now available! The conference will be in Ljubljana, Slovenia on 12-13 July 2007. If you are in the area please stop by! 🙂 I will probably post the abstracts later, at least mine, so please […]
I still have a few misgivings about Google. Yet I am assured by people I trust very much that this is all a good thing and if I can get them to scan all our theses as part of the deal then, bonus! 12-UNIVERSITY CONSORTIUM JOINS GOOGLE DIGITIZATION PROJECT The […]
Christian Mark McNamara Brady That is my name. Well, to be honest, my given name is “Christian Mark Brady.” I added “McNamara” to honor my maternal grandfather and I have never been able to get it officially changed. That should happen this year. I have thought a lot about my […]
Dr. Bernard Grossfeld has recently written a fairly positive review of my book, The Rabbinic Targum of Lamentations: Vindicating God, Studies in the Aramaic Interpretation of Scripture, vol. 3, (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2003). It has been published in the Journal of the American Oriental Society 125.3 (2005). The last […]
This is an amazing story of devotion and committment. (With a few humorous observations along the way). BBC NEWS | Europe | Pole wakes up from 19-year coma A Polish man has woken up from a 19-year coma to find the Communist party no longer in power and food no […]
As Larry the Cable Guy would say, “Lord, I apologize.” The New ‘Answers in Genesis’ New Testament– Children’s Edition Jesus rides into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday on the foal of a raptor. People attempt to feed the raptor by laying palm branches on the road as he looks hungry. (Via […]