(That’s how long it took to create it. It is only a minute 40 in length.) I decided to give the “Magic GarageBand” in Apple’s new iLife 08 suite of software. This is dangerous people, I am warning you. The song attached below is horrid! Simply horrible. And it only […]
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I hope that we can do more of this. I am still waiting for an unnamed (because I still want to publish with them 😉 ) publisher to grant me permission to post some of my articles. “Hearing the Children’s Cries” Ten years ago I published my first article in […]
Somehow I missed the fact that my good friend Dr. Richard Wright (Jim W. you need to get to know this fellow Baptist!) has started a very thoughtful blog. I should note that I have known Richard since we were at Cornell together and he taught me biblical Hebrew. (He […]
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 […]
Kevin Wilson of BlueCord.org has contact a few of us and is calling for more contributors to a book project on Blogging the Bible. Although I am down for “Blogging for Scholarly Writing” (i.e., will it help one get tenure?) I am also intriqued with idea that blogging has, in […]
I have been delinquent in keeping up with these reports while trying to get back on top of work here in the office. Fortunately Jim is always on top of everything! (I meant nothing untoward by that! Get your head out of the gutter Chris Tilling.) Another Report From the […]
Today was the final day of the XIXth IOSOT Conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia. A few notes from the meeting. Vetus Testamentum Carol Newsome is the editor to receive submission from North America. In the last three years (since the last report to IOSOT) there were 80 some articles and additional […]
I have not been able to attend too many of the IOSOT papers but I was able to attend a few very good ones today. I wanted to make note of a couple that I noticed not only because they are on texts in the Megillot, my current area of […]
UPDATE: January 15, 2019 – On Twitter Ã…rstein Justnes said that this fragment was one of the texts acquired by the Museum of the Bible shown to be a fake. Yes, it is one of the five (fake) MOTB frgs that were tested in Berlin in 2017: Gen 31:23–25?, 32:3–6 […]
Today ended our two day conference of the IOTS. We were very sorry that Paul Flesher, our President, and Robert Hayward, a distinguished Targum scholar, were unable to join us because of illness. We wish them all the very best. It has been a wonderful conference with many excellent papers. […]