Scholar of ancient languages, Reader in OT/HB Studies (Lund), August prize-nominated author. Hebraist, Ugaritologist, Semitist, moonlighting in Indo-European.
Lund University
Joined November 2013
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Updated list of my books, so far (thread)!
First:
Unburning Fame: Horses, Dragon, Beings of Smoke, and Other Indo-European Motifs in Ugarit and the Hebrew Bible (2017)
and
Drought, Death, and the Sun in Ugarit and Ancient Israel: A Philological and Comparative Study (2014)
Ola Wikander retweeted
Happy to announce I built a Greek/English reader site with all the surviving plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, & Aristophanes.
Multiple translations for each play; click to parse & define for any Greek word; full Greek & English search.
greekdrama.johnhboyer.com
It's so wonderfully silly to say this and forget, you know... Latin.
Also, the whole thing is, obviously, utterly irrelevant. The shit people say about language never ceases to amaze me...
Den här texten känns återigen relevant att dela ut:
expressen.se/kultur/kulturde…
Ola Wikander retweeted
#New on #OCIANA - A desperate and emotional #Safaitic plea by a man for his sick wife. He calls upon the goddess Allāt to give life (ʾḥy) back to his wife (mrʾt-h) who is sick (sqmt) and emaciated (ḫsft), and begs her for deliverance (ḫlṣt)
Find more: ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/…
My most recent article:
ALT "Thou Madest Him Almost unto an Indian Mystic" – Emptiness from Death to the Undying – in Qoheleth and Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin"
Ola Wikander retweeted
Ugaritic word of the day:
ġnṯ ("to gulp down, to swallow").
ALT Yours truly, in three-piece suit, in a restaurant, seen from a 3/4-perspective, drinking from a glass.
Ugaritic word of the day:
ġnṯ ("to gulp down, to swallow").
ALT Yours truly, in three-piece suit, in a restaurant, seen from a 3/4-perspective, drinking from a glass.
Right now I just noticed that the wonderful "They identify as my grandparents"-scene from SHIELD season 6 – an awesome parody of Steve Jobs – even musically kinda quotes Daniel Pemberton's music to the 2015 Steve Jobs movie! Mind. Blown.
Hebraist during liminal afternoon walk (between teaching beginner's Hebrew – absolute infinitives and participles today - and Advanced, where we will be reading Psalms 29 and 48).
Ola Wikander retweeted
Fenugreek implies the existence of Fenuroman. And, if we want to feel a bit cladistic, Fenuphrygian. And, for the literarily minded, Fenutrojan.
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Elamite word of the day:
Sunki-k ("I, the king").
Elamite is one of the very few languages that inflect nouns for person - here, the word sunki ("king") is in the locutive, indicating identity with the first person.
