UPDATE:
In checking to see what sort of PDF support the iPad would have (I want to be able to annotate as I can in Preview and Adobe Acrobat) I came across an obvious bit of data at Apple’s Tech Spec page for the iPad. This is not good news and curious, given the Hebrew support [...]
Posts under ‘Hebrew’
Hebrew on the iPhone and iPad
John Hobbins Reconstructing Lamentations
John has an intriguing post regarding Lam. 3:51: Lamentations 3:51: A New Proposal This is a notoriously problematic passage and John has an interesting proposal for a textual reconstruction. Of greater interest to me is his broader conclusions that I am not sure that I can agree with.
On this reading, in 3:1, at the onset [...]
Syriac news: New releases by Gorgias Press
I received the following email from George Kiraz and pass it along for the benefit of all.
Dear Christian,
I am writing to introduce you to some of Gorgias Press’s academic publishing programs. At the last SBL meeting, we released ca. 65 new titles, some of which are listed below under my signature. During the past nine [...]
Sessions on Diachrony in Hebrew at SBL
I received the following email from Ziony Zevit.
Dear Colleagues
I write to draw your attention to the two NAPH sessions at the forthcoming SBL meetings that will deal with Diachrony in Biblical Hebrew. The catalyst for this year’s sessions, and the two (or three) planned for 2010, is the publication by Equinox of the two-volume “Linguistic [...]
The word is the thing
Many thanks to Scott Bailey of Scotteriology who posted “Hermeneutics Video 9.” That is a video in his series posted on YouTube that relate to hermeneutics. #3 is just superb. As Scott notes: “Two words: exegetical fallacy.” And women, remember, when you do your laundry, do it in the love of God because when you [...]
