This evening I was at an event where the Episcopal Bishop of Rhode Island, the Right Reverend Wolf spoke. She recalled her time spent living in homeless shelters as a homeless person (this was during her sabbatical and she readily admits that the fact that she always had a home […]
Many thanks to Jim Davila for welcoming Targuman to the blogosphere! Jim is biblioblog of the month at Biblioblogs.com. Be sure to read the interview for secret knowledge about Jim. I am proud to say I already knew this tidbit of information from a mutual friend here in New Orleans. […]
Very interesting results! Several manuscript images which are well worth a peep with the ol’ orbs. Most interesting results: A Polish company (I think, my Polish is rusty, ok, nonexistent) that sells tires. Rutger’s student newspaper, The Daily Targum. I have always wondered about the origin of their name. Can […]
Jim Davila has already blogged here on these Aramaic resources gathered (and first blogged) by Danny Zacharias at Deinde. Danny’s site is a GREAT resource. Be sure to stop by! I would be remiss if I did not also direct you to the Newsletter for Targum and Cognate Studies that […]
If you click on my profile you will see that I live in (near) New Orleans and that I teach at Tulane University. Needless to say we have been through a lot this year. Whenever catastrophes of this magnitude occur someone always seems eager to step forward and say that […]
[In looking over my earliest blog posts now, July 2012, I realize that this post from January 2006 could be misleading. It appears to be the first post on Targuman, but it is not. Somehow when I migrated from Blogger I lost over a year’s worth of blogs (as you […]
I will take up Ralph’s (Ed’s) challenge: Best NONFICTION BOOK I read this year: This is a hard one for me. I have read many (and portions of more) but which was the best? I think I will have to go with a re-read of Dorothy L. Sayer’s Mind of […]