The Review of Biblical Literature has Jan-Wim Wessellius’ review of Philip S. Alexander’s The Targum of Lamentations: Translated, with a Critical Introduction, Apparatus, and Notes. Review by Jan-Wim Wesselius Read the Review Published 1/24/2009 Citation: Jan-Wim Wesselius, review of Philip S. Alexander, The Targum of Lamentations: Translated, with a Critical […]
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I have oft mentioned that I am a keen fan of DLS and Lord Peter Wimsey. For Christmas in addition to my iPod Touch I received a Best Buy card that I used to purchase the 3 DVD set of the 1987 production of 3 mysteries, starring Edward Petherbridge, Harriet […]
Ed Cook of Ralph the Sacred River has his Fifth Annual Ralphies. I have not done this every year, but this year I can indeed offer my top picks for the categories required for the Ralphy. BEST MOVIE: Like Ed and unlike the rest of humanity I have not seen […]
From the Telegraph: Toujours Tingo, a book by Adam Jacot de Boinod, lists weird words and bizarre phrases from around the world. The “tingo” of its title is an Easter Island word, meaning to borrow objects from a friend’s house one by one until there are none left. Some of […]
Cathleen Falsani, the “God Girl” of The Dude Abides, offers a review of a new book by Andy Crouch, Culture Making. Andy was, in addition to everything else about him that Falsani says below, was a classmate of mine (or I of his) at Cornell. I haven’t read the book […]
The New York Sun has a review of Joel Kramer’s Maimonides. Oddly the review is mostly a summary of Maimonides’ life with only the last two paragraphs offering any sort of critique of the book. This is more than just a biography of one of history’s greatest thinkers. It is […]
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 […]
If you have ever come across a comic you do not understand you need to visit “Comics I Don’t Understand” by Bill Bickel. He also runs a blog called Crimeweek. This week his two worlds combined. I will not re-post all of it (respect copyright, etc.) but I have the […]
This is old news now, but I just received word of it. I spent a fair amount of time in the New Bodley since many Hebrew and Aramaic Manuscripts are there (I assume they still are). This morning I received my copy of “Oxford Today” and it announced a £25M […]
Our first night here I was looking for reading material on my BlackBerry and found I had downloaded the above titled novel (or long short story? the length is hard to tell on the BB) by Cory Doctorow. I have mentioned before both Feedbooks, a source of free electronic books, […]