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New Series: Hosea 2:4-7
This post represents the beginning of a fairly long series of posts that I will be doing on Hosea 2:4-7. Throughout this series, I will look at various aspects of this truncated pericope and its...
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Grammatical Analysis of Hosea 2:4-7
This is yet another post in what will be a long running series on Hosea 2:4-7. I hope you find them helpful in working with the text (this post will require some knowledge of Hebrew). The previous...
View ArticleIt is Finally Here (Qumran Biblical Dead Sea Scrolls Database)!!!!
After much anticipation, Logos is about to finally release their Qumran Biblical Dead Sea Scrolls Database. From what I understand, the release date for this product was pushed back several times over...
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I Hate Normal Flashcards: Towards a New Solution for Biblical Hebrew!
There, I said it! I don’t like flashcards and I never did. My loathing of these ubiquitous scraps of paper likely stems from my elementary school days, but now I can more clearly articulate why I...
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Product Review: Logos’ Qumran Biblical Dead Sea Scrolls Database
The Qumran Biblical Dead Sea Scrolls Database (henceforth referred to as BDSS) finally arrived on Friday (March 11). After much delay and a few setbacks, I am now in possession of this important...
View ArticleThe Importance of Reading Handwritten Manuscripts
Often when students learn to read ancient (i.e. biblical) Hebrew texts, they do so through a very cold and sterile medium. We learn to read the language from clean modern type-faced critical editions...
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So you want to begin reading handwritten ancient manuscripts?
This post is meant to be a practical application of the previous post. In order to illustrate the differences between a modern critical edition and a facsimile edition of an old manuscript, I will...
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So You Want to Read Handwritten Hebrew Manuscripts, part II.
This post is a continuation of two earlier blog entries (here and here). Its purpose is to help facilitate the reading of handwritten Hebrew manuscripts for intermediate students of the language....
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YHVH’s Posture in Ps 9: Obscured Enthronment Language Among the Translations
This week I began to translate and write a small commentary on Ps. 9 for an upcoming class that I will be teaching. Psalm 9 is an interesting psalm that focuses on the rule of YHVH as it relates to...
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Dead Sea Scrolls in Boston . . .
On October 19th, my wife and I went on a date to go see the Dead Sea Scrolls on their last weekend in Boston at the Boston Science Museum. I am pretty romantic, don’t you think? Well, the science...
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