A great name in Aramaic studies has passed. He was always very kind and generous to me (and my book). I am saddened to hear of his death but glad to remember the wonderful contributions he made to our field, not least in Targum studies. זכרונו לברכה
We are now just about two weeks away from the 2013 IOTS conference in Munich. My paper, as always seems to be the case, is on the last day, just a few hours before we catch our flight back. My paper is “On Some Exegetical Similarities Between the Targumim of […]
I am finishing off my paper for the 2013 IOTS Conference to be held in just over two weeks. I will be speaking “On Exegetical Similarities between the Targumim of the Megilloth” and in the course of my research I was reading Tg Qohelet again. The Targum transforms this nihilistic […]
I had done this ages ago, but apparently failed to do it in Aramaic. I still think it is actually quite a useful tool. The visualization of the frequency of words is interesting. Compare the size of נעמי to רות or בועז.
I get David Pogue’s NYTimes blog postings in my email. I like his reviews and reflections, but today’s Two Tips for Facebook Users was particularly helpful. In it he reveals that there is a hidden “Other” messages mailbox. [H]ere’s the bottom line: Go to your Facebook page. In the left-side […]
I am reading some science fiction for distraction, The Fall of Hyperion, recommended by my friend Rick. This is the second in trilogy and, as seems so often the case now, the themes are far more relevant to my immediate life than I expected. One character, a Jewish Philosopher named Sol, […]
This is a repost from January 14, 2011. I had thought about doing a new post, but it is still relevant and came up in my conversation with our new Tombros Librarian Chuck Jones and CLA associate dean Christopher Long. I still find Sente to be most useful for me […]
If you read this site with any regularity you know that I love comics. Today I noticed that GoComics.com has started a new “strip” that will showcase some of the oldest newspaper comics and thus provide a history to their origins. Should be well worth a daily look! About Origins […]
Fire! The article has been slain. (No doubt typos remain to be tidied up.) Now to prepare for the real research objectives for the summer! More on the Targumim of the Megilloth and finally to crack into my book on Targum Ruth. And we get to do it all from […]
Why is that writing articles so often feels like trying to put together a LEGO? I swivel my head back and forth from the texts (instructions), looking for the odd shape pieces that fit into the argument. Piece by piece, brick by brick, it takes shape, but somehow it still […]