@OlaWikander

Scholar of ancient languages, Reader in OT/HB Studies (Lund), August prize-nominated author. Hebraist, Ugaritologist, Semitist, moonlighting in Indo-European.

 Lund University
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Joined November 2013
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John H. Boyer
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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

The Greek Drama Reader — Greek tragedy and comedy, Greek and English side by side

Read the Greek plays in the original Greek with a facing English translation, side by side — with click-to-parse morphology, dictionary lookup, citation, and full-text search across the corpus.

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OCIANA@OCIANA_OSUOct 21
#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/…
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Ola Wikander@OlaWikanderOct 21
Ugaritic word of the day: ġnṯ ("to gulp down, to swallow").
Yours truly, in three-piece suit, in a restaurant, seen from a 3/4-perspective, drinking from a glass.

ALT Yours truly, in three-piece suit, in a restaurant, seen from a 3/4-perspective, drinking from a glass.

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Ola Wikander@OlaWikanderFeb 9
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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Ola Wikander@OlaWikander5 Feb 2020
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.
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Ola Wikander@OlaWikanderOct 17
Ugaritic word of the day: Ql ("voice"). Cf. Hebrew qôl (etc. etc.).
The cover of Haruo Kubozono (ed.), Handbook of Japanese Phonetics and Phonology.

ALT The cover of Haruo Kubozono (ed.), Handbook of Japanese Phonetics and Phonology.

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Ola Wikander@OlaWikanderOct 16
Ugaritic word of the day: ảṯr ("behind, after").
Sunlight blazing through the trees and bushes, behind a road.

ALT Sunlight blazing through the trees and bushes, behind a road.

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The #Syriac (#Aramaic) word of the day is ܛܠܘܡܐ (ṭlūmā), "oppression / fraud." Pronounced "ṭlumo." Cognate with Arabic ظُلْم (ẓulm). #Assyrian #Aramaic #Languages #WOTD
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Stele depicting Adad standing on a bull, dated to the reign of Tiglath-pilesar III, c. 744 - 727 BC, Arslan Taş, Syria (ancient Hadatu)
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Posted a new article arguing that Q 111 and related early surahs were directed at rebutting polytheistic ritual by citing Allah's eschatological judgment, and that the ritual conflict at issue had centered on securing salvation from drought and famine. academia.edu/144320714/Ab%C5…

Abū Lahab and his Woman Carrying Fuel for the Fire, Mot and Shapshu, Death and his Scorching Female...

This article argues that surah Q 111 employed old Arabian imagery of drought crisis inherited from the Ba‘al Cycle. Satan, as death personified, was condemned for causing the land to burn with...

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Here is my new article about the early quranic corpus, making intensive use of Safaitic and Ugaritic. It's very long, but the central point is that early quranic soteriology centered on seasonal providence, i.e. winds with rain, under astral direction. academia.edu/128218383/The_L…

The Lord's Banished Female Storm Servants-The Invocation of Feminine Heavenly Forces in Early...

This article analyzes the Qur’ān’s feminine participle oaths, concluding that they originally invoked feminine heavenly beings that delivered storms at the Lord’s command, both as saving precipitat...

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Ugaritic word of the day: dġṯ ("smoke, aromatic smell, perfume, incense" vel. sim.). Borrowed from Hittite tuḫḫuiš ("smoke"), itself from the Proto-Indo-European root *dʰueh₂ (which also gives Latin fūmus, Sanskrit dhūmas and others).
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Academic biblical scholars are, on the whole, not as interested in "how event X actually happened" as some seem to imagine.
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OCIANA@OCIANA_OSUOct 13
#just_published - the long-awaited report on seasons 2024-5 of the Badia Epigraphic Survey! It is filled with inscriptions, archaeology, and heritage management, including the excavation of site MH09, where the "allāh" inscription comes from. Find more: academia.edu/178903861/Al_Ja…
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Ola Wikander@OlaWikanderOct 12
Biblical Hebrew word of the day: Rāqîaʿ (רָקִיעַ), "firmament, plate, dome, vault (of heaven)"
Great oval-shaped light at the horizon; in foreground, a path.

ALT Great oval-shaped light at the horizon; in foreground, a path.

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Aoidimoi@aoidimoiOct 12
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Aoidimoi, a new literary magazine for poems written in Latin, Ancient Greek, Sanskrit, Old Norse and other classical languages. First theme: Autumn.
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Ugaritic word of the day: /yuḥawwiyu/ ("he brings to life" – D-stem 3rd person masculine singular long prefix conjugation of the "live" root). Pictured: yours truly and Eques a Sole Vivificante. I'm the one on the left.
Me sitting in a chair in a black suit and blueish-purplish tie, next to a painting of Charles XIII of Sweden, aka Eques a Sole Vivificante.

ALT Me sitting in a chair in a black suit and blueish-purplish tie, next to a painting of Charles XIII of Sweden, aka Eques a Sole Vivificante.

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Just heard an apologist-bro online refer to Caesar's famous work "The Gaelic Wars".
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An insightfull read by Ola Wikander on parallels between Hurrian myth and Jewish Deut 32:15, And how both texts use the distinct, multi-layered motif of a fattened animal spurning its mountain/rock benefactor as an allegory for human or divine disloyalty: academia.edu/14327711/Ungrat…

Ungrateful Grazers: A Parallel to Deut 32:15 from the Hurrian/Hittite Epic of Liberation (SEÅ 78...

Ungrateful Grazers: A Parallel to Deut 32:15 from the Hurrian/Hittite Epic of Liberation (SEÅ 78 [2013])

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Neo-Hurrian 𒄷𒌨𒊑@Neo_HurrianSep 10
An insightful paper by Peter van Soesbergen on the Hurrian roots of Greek myth: academia.edu/152613115/Lectu…

Lecture 4: Hurrian myths: the striking parallels between Hesiod’s Theogony and the Hurrian myths of...

Episode 4 of the podcast series on THE DECIPHERMENT OF MINOAN LINEAR A contains arguments that the decipherment of Minoan Linear A shows that it is more preferable to explain the striking parallels...

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Sometimes, you see academics on Twitter (and otherwise) bashing Festschriften as a genre ("self-indulgent", scholarship than wouldn't otherwise be published etc). I'm here to state that I *love* Festschriften.
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