I have just finished my homily on the Fourth Words of Jesus (Matt. 27:46, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”) and in reading it with Psalm 22, I realized that there are very different renderings of verse 29 in the English, 30 in the Hebrew. אכלו וישתחוו כל דשני ארץ לפניו [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Hebrew’
Biblical Studies Carnival XXIII
I neglected to link to John Hobbins’ Biblical Studies Carnival XXIII. John took a slightly different approach this time. It looks good to me! The format of this carnival is simple. I link to representative posts from a wide selection of blogs. The purpose: to introduce a bunch of bloggers to each other who will [...]
Boyarin Boring?
Not that I find his work or lectures boring, quite the opposite. But at Columbia a student recently chastised her peers. The lecture, “Dethroning the Son of Man: Daniel and the Antiquity of Christianity,” was mandatory for Columbia College members but the early hours seemed to get to them. Take a Seat | Columbia Spectator [...]
Welcome to NTCS!
Some of you may know that for the last six years I have been the online editor for the Newsletter for Targumic and Cognate Studies. This site is now located at http://targum.info and we are now taking the newsletter to an online only format. As part of the change we are redoing the site and [...]
SansBlogue: Biblical Studies Carnival XXII
It is up and wow is it thorough! So go and get caught up on a month’s worth of biblioblogging! Biblical Studies Carnival XXII Via SansBlogue.