The NTCS Home Page has moved! I am the internet editor of the newsletter and since I am no longer at Tulane we are moving the site. Unfortunately when the domain targum.org expired someone snatched it up and is now demanding payment for it so… Targum.info is the new domain […]
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In an interesting piece reflecting upon President’s Ford’s status as an adopted child (and Bill Clinton’s as well) commentator Jay Homnick shows his knowledge of rabbinica. In President Ford’s case there is an added poignancy in the notion that he was essentially an adopted President. The citizenry had not voted […]
I was sent an email with a series of questions for an interview for a local magazine. I thought some might be interested in how I responded to the questions. 1. Was it difficult to leave New Orleans given all that’s happened there? It was. In fact, we evacuated to […]
Today 5 of us got together to chat about biblioblogs, SBL, and stuff. We covered blogging, teaching & tech, Hebrew Bible, U2, and tattoos (go with nun, bet, lamed). Tyler Williams – Codex http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/index.php/ Chrisian Brady – Targuman http://targuman.org/ Stephen Cook – Biblishe Ausbildung http://biblische.blogspot.com/ Kevin Wilson – BlueCord http://bluecord.org/biblioblog/ […]
I am not sure how I missed this post from last week and most of my audience already knows about Accordance, but if you don’t and you use a Mac (or get a Mac if you want ot use the best Bible software out there) check out Accordance. Their targum, […]
From Paul Flesher, our IOTS President: The Fifth Congress of the International Organization for Targumic Studies (IOTS) is scheduled for Thursday and Friday, 12-13 July 2007, in Ljubljana, Slovenia. It will be held in conjunction with the XIXth Congress of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament […]
Christopher Heard has just made me aware of another targum out there. This one is “an e-magazine published by Highmoon Media Productions to support and enhance role-playing games set in the ancient Near East.” It’s true! I learn something new everyday!
The preliminary sessions for SBL are posted. I cannot seem to link directly to any one section but you can search here. If you are interest in all things Aramaic then by all means search under that term since other sessions, like Qumran, will also address issues Aramaic. Aramaic Studies […]