Thursday, September 05, 2013

Levita Meets the Maronites

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One of the most interesting encounters in the history of Aramaic studies occurred in the course of the Fifth Lateran Council (1513-1515). Th...
Sunday, August 11, 2013

Reza Aslan's "Zealot": Poor

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I am usually glad to see a book about Jesus in the news. Even if the book is controversial or erroneous, it still might lead the curious to ...
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Saturday, August 03, 2013

Wierzbicka on Jesus

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I've recently enjoyed reading Anna Wierzbicka's What Did Jesus Mean? (Oxford, 2001). I hadn't realized that Wierzbicka, who is ...
Thursday, March 21, 2013

Totally Modally

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The English adverb totally is an interesting study. My guess is that most dictionaries would define it along the lines of "not partial...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013

C. S. Lewis's Conversion Revisited

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I notice that Alister McGrath has recently moved up the date of C. S. Lewis's conversion. I wholeheartedly concur with his reasoning an...
Thursday, March 07, 2013

Did Josephus Call Jesus the Messiah?

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There is a famous passage in the Antiquities of the Jews by Josephus, which speaks of Jesus of Nazareth — the so-called Testimonium Flavia...
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Monday, March 04, 2013

Call to Action

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(This is the beginning of a short story based on life in a Cincinnati branding agency. Loosely, but not currently, autobiographical.) He sit...
Sunday, February 17, 2013

Ninth Annual Ralphies, Better Late Than Never

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This year's Ralphies will be a bit different, as I'm introducing some new categories: Worst Computer Company : Apple. Every time I u...
Thursday, February 07, 2013

A Suggestion About I Enoch 90:15

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"And I saw until the owner of the sheep came against them in wrath and all who saw him fled and they fell away from him into his shadow...
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Thursday, September 13, 2012

Deconstructing Dylan's Rant

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All the world knows by now that the following exchange between Mikal Gilmore and Bob Dylan is soon to appear in Rolling Stone : Gilmore :...
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Saturday, July 07, 2012

"Please" and "thank you" in Biblical Hebrew

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In a paper delivered last November at the SBL meeting, Jan Joosten mentioned that the Biblical Hebrew expression "to find favor in some...
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Monday, December 26, 2011

Eighth Annual Ralphies

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Before I begin the long-awaited Ralphies, I would like to congratulate myself on keeping "Ralph" going. Way to go, buddy! By the w...
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Saturday, October 22, 2011

Swarming in Hebrew

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For about the past year, I've been preoccupied with the question of "argument alternations" or "diathesis alternations...
Saturday, July 30, 2011

Dylan and Plagiarism

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The discussion of Bob Dylan and his "borrowing" habit goes on (especially on the Internet), but not usually at a high level of sop...
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Monday, June 20, 2011

Notes on the Structure of the Hebrew Verbal System

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These really are just notes, not a full-fledged think piece. The issue with the Hebrew (I mean Biblical Hebrew prose  here) verbal system ...
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Friday, June 03, 2011

Wow, the New York Times

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Well, if that don't beat everything. "Ralph" is mentioned in the New York TImes, in connection with Bob Dylan, natch. If you ...
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Thursday, March 24, 2011

Fun with Popes and Presidents

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One of the most obscure areas of human knowledge is the comparison in ages and terms of office between Popes and Presidents. It is arguably ...
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Saturday, March 05, 2011

"Loving This Book": Stative and Progressive

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This semester our Hebrew seminar is considering the semantics of the Hebrew verb, and, as a foil to other treatments of verbal semantics, we...
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Thursday, December 16, 2010

Seventh Annual Ralphies

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Here we go ... Best TV Show : First, I have to say a few words about Lost , which has won this award for several years. By the time the last...
Sunday, December 05, 2010

Now We Are Six

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On November 30, 2004, the first post of this blog appeared. The first year or so was quite active, and coincided approximately with the bir...
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