Well, both my sons have come down with the flu this past week. Henry is going on day 6 and Jack is into day 2. So far my wife and I have stayed healthy somehow, but I’m not holding my breath. My basic plan of attack has been to keep my mouth a sterile environment [...]
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(Swine?) Flu 2 – Bekins House 2
October 27, 2009Happy birthday Henry
October 5, 20095 years ago today, my oldest son Henry was born. I still remember sitting in the hospital working on homework while my wife bounced on an exercise ball eating jello and watching Spongebob Squarepants on TV (this was before the doctor broke her water and got things moving).
The passage I was translating was Isaiah 9, [...]
Cuneiform resources
October 5, 2009The Knowledge and Power in the Neo-Assyrian Empire site is a great resource for introductory material in Assyriology. Besides transliterations and translations of Neo-Assyrian texts, there are good introductions to related subjects as well.
They have just added an excellent introduction to all things cuneiform, Cuneiform Revealed, including a very helpful intro to the Akkadian language [...]
0 for August
September 9, 2009Sorry for the lack of posts over the past month. There are several reasons for my silence, but mostly:
1) I have been having massive writer’s block trying to put together my dissertation proposal. I had a spurt at one point, but then I found another dissertation from 2000 that is most of my idea, so [...]
More evidence of the Kaufman effect?
July 25, 2009Duane Smith recently posted a link to an interesting discussion of the order of פ and ע in the acrostics in Lamentations (איכה). The issue is that in the acrostics in chapters 2-4 the פ section precedes ע. The author, Mitchell First, argues that this is because פ actually preceded ע in the alphabet in [...]
Codex Sinaiticus online
July 6, 2009The website is here. It looks very slick. The layout allows you to view the manuscript in a large window with transcription and translation in smaller windows on the right.
My five
June 28, 2009I have been slow to participate in the latest biblioblog craze, begun by Ken Brown, to list the five books/authors that have most influenced the way you read the Bible. I’m not really a disciple of any one guy, so my influences have been more of a hodge-podge. You have to get this sort of [...]
More Bibliography
June 24, 2009Here is an MA thesis that attempts to apply Niccacci’s approach to the verb system in poetry, judging it approvingly. My own series of posts feel like they are turning into an MA thesis.
Hebrew Narrative Syntax
June 24, 2009I just stumbled across Christo van der Merwe’s overview of the recent study of Hebrew narrative syntax in E. J. van Wolde’s Narrative Syntax and the Hebrew Bible. He discusses many of the issues I have been trying to summarize here. The link will take you to the Google Books page thanks to their nifty new [...]
Home Run
June 10, 2009Tonight at softball I hit a home run over the left center field fence. Not Bible or Hebrew related, but I thought I would just let everyone know. See, I have been playing baseball my whole life, and this is the first time I have ever hit a home run out of the park in [...]
