Monthly Archives: September 2008
28 posts
Wired and others are reporting that Gov. Sarah Palin’s email was hacked by the group known as “Anonymous.” Wikileaks has posted much of the material here, where you can see screenshots of her email accounts, etc. I have lots of questions such as why they (Wikileaks? Anonymous?) chose to post […]
This is a touching story of an exceptional woman. Edith Macefield, 1921-2008: Ballard woman held her ground as change closed in around her Edith Macefield died at home, just the way she wanted. The Ballard woman who captured hearts and admirers around the world when she stubbornly turned down $1 […]
Who made these up? Why is it that biblical book abbreviations do not have periods and are not italicized but rabbinic works are? E.g., “We find in Exod 3:15 that… whereas in Exod. Rab. we find….” My current frustration (the hobgoblin of this little mind) is what to do with […]
Does anyone know what happened to the Beth Mardutho site? It used to be at http://www.bethmardutho.org/ and is now simply showing “forbidden.” For those who do not know this site it is the site for The Syriac Institute, established by George Kiraz. You can read about it in an old […]
This comic brings up a couple of excellent points. The first of which is that science, even that most “pure” of sciences which is physics, is full of approximations, guesses, and hypotheses. None of which is to say that it isn’t good science, or reliable, or accurate. It just isn’t […]
I received an email today from Bro. Larry Kelsey with a link to Pauli’s translation of Targum Isaiah on Google Books. The excellent suggestion was that I should add it to our links of targumic texts in English translation available over at the Newsletter for Targumic and Cognate Studies (which […]