“Biblical Hebrew is not a dead language ... ” Shortcut: https://xitter.cf/t.co/6UyvHPudS9 (Website and account run by Benjamin Paul Kantor)
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Immersion Biblical HEBREW, Immersion Biblical ARAMAIC, Immersion AKKADIAN, CARTOONS in Biblical Hebrew, audio of ancient INSCRIPTIONS, and more!
A very significant Hebrew job posting/opportunity here in Cambridge...
jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48256/
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Now you can save 💰 AND read my "pioneering, thoroughly impressive book," The Emergence of Arabic Poetry, which Nicolai Sinai says provides "an unrivaled picture of pre-Islamic poetry" — use discount code PENN-NAMILLER30 at pennpress.org — a hardcover now $45 from $65
One interesting thing about working in Biblical Hebrew grammar, medieval Hebrew grammarians/interpreters, etc.
It highlights that sometimes we modern scholars try to reinvent the wheel and miss that medieval grammarians might have already dealt with an interpretive issue we face
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A nice ancient Greek idiom:
λελέχθω ‘let it have been said!'
to mean something like ...
‘that's enough about that’
There's even a lot to be said for the idea that all examples of language exist on various axes of register, dialect, learnedness, L1 vs L2, etc
It's all—one way or another—part of same language world. Soon as we call language 'good' or 'bad' we impose ideology of what *should*be
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New Open Access Book: The Standard Language Ideology of the Hebrew and Arabic Grammarians of the ‘Abbasid Period, by @BibHebrew published by @OpenBookPublish medievalists.net/2024/04/new… #openaccess #books #languages
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This article now is no longer in pre-publication but has a issue in JSS dedicated to it, so it's easier to cite.
I'm still very happy with this article!
doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgad029
A new article of mine has just come out in pre-publication! And it's Open Access so totally free for you to download!
doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgad029
But I'll summarize the gist of the article in a thread here:
Jim Harbaugh, the head coach of @UMichFootball team, was quoted recently saying:
‘Like Moses I am going to die leaning on my staff’
cleverly praising his asst. coaches before #rosebowl vs @AlabamaFTBL
But did Moses die leaning on his staff? Or Jacob?
biblicalhebrew.com/jim-harba…
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One of the interesting things that the Karaites used to do in their Hebrew Bibles (besides writing it in Arabic script with Hebrew vocalisation) is to avoid writing God's holy name by writing it as aḷḷāh!
Number 14:41 ويومر موشا لاما زا اتام عوريم اث في الله وهي لا تصلاح
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Gave a presentation on the history of Jewish scriptural reading traditions from the Second Temple through the close of the Masoretic period. I count it as a win. I think I managed to convey that this is interesting beyond Jewish Studies and more people should know about it.
Jewish scriptural reading is very unusual on so many levels. The full story of how it got to be what it is is still kind of a mystery in many ways.
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📢New Publication Alert!
📒We are thrilled to announce the release of 'The Standard #Language #Ideology of the #Hebrew and #Arabic #Grammarians of the #ʿAbbasid Period' by Benjamin Paul Kantor.
🔗This title is now available at doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0382
ALT Cover of 'The Standard Language Ideology of the Hebrew and Arabic Grammarians of the ʿAbbasid Period' on a 3D image of a tablet, a phone, and a book.
My NEW BOOK on the language ideology of the medieval Hebrew and Arabic grammarians is out!
It is open-access so you can DOWNLOAD FREE here:
bit.ly/hebrewgrammarians
This looks pretty cool!
Calling all publishers. Together with two other Cambridge students, we've produced a rather good vocabulary reader from the Hebrew Bible! We'll all be presenting at #SBL and around to talk. My algorithm identifies the simplest 5 verses in the Bible for each word in the Bible. 1/3
Sometimes you *can* judge a book by its cover.
If you look closely, the broad findings and conclusions of my new book (openbookpublishers.com/books…) are actually all visible on the graphic of the cover:
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this is one of the best diagrams for language evolution/descent I've seen, bravo
If you just want the TL;DR of my new book (openbookpublishers.com/books…) on the relationship of the Biblical Hebrew reading traditions:
If you just want the TL;DR of my new book (openbookpublishers.com/books…) on the relationship of the Biblical Hebrew reading traditions:
My new open access book on the relationship between the various reading traditions of Biblical Hebrew is now out ...
DOWNLOAD FREE HERE:
openbookpublishers.com/books…
