While Iyov is posting about translations of the Bible into English, it seems that someone thinks Hebrew speakers need a translation of their own. (hat tip) See some discussion about it from Israeli educators here, and another article about it here. The translation itself was done by this man. I am wondering if [...]
A recent archeological discovery which is very timely for the Jewish liturgical calendar.
Israeli archaeologists have unearthed a seal impression belonging to a minister of the biblical King Zedekiah, which dates back 2,600 years, during an archeological dig in Jerusalem’s ancient City of David. The finding helps corroborate the story pertaining to the biblical minister’s demand [...]
Tyler F. Williams has posted about some new editions to the very helpful “Mastering Biblical Hebrew” section of his website, Codex.
The Masorites divided up the sections of the Torah using parashiyot. It wasn’t until the 13th century that Archbiship Stephen Langton of Canteburry, England, divided up the Bible into the chapters. Often the division of Langton’s chapters and the Masoretic parashiyot overlap, but sometimes they don’t. That the chapter division differs from [...]
In 1967 an inscription was found on a wall, that was actually on the ground because of an earthquake, in Deir Allah, Jordan. The language of the inscription was a dialect of Aramaic and it mentioned the seer Balaam. Here is the text of the inscriptions (from here).
[1] Scroll of [Ba]laam [son of Beo]r, [...]
In Exodus 22:1-2 we read,
אִם־בַּמַּחְתֶּרֶת יִמָּצֵא הַגַּנָּב וְהֻכָּה וָמֵת אֵין לוֹ דָּמִים׃
: אִם־זָרְחָה הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ עָלָיו דָּמִים לוֹ שַׁלֵּם יְשַׁלֵּם אִם־אֵין לוֹ וְנִמְכַּר בִּגְנֵבָתוֹ׃
“If the thief is seized while tunneling, and he is beaten to death, there is no bloodguilt in his case.
If the sun has risen on him, there is bloodguilt in that case. — [...]
Continuing my interesting in cantillation-related matters, two of the most important books ever published on the subject are available at the Internet Archive and Google Books, both of them by William Wickes.
1. A Treatise on the Accentuation of the Twenty-one so-called Prose Books of the Old Testament (here and here). In the introduction [...]
Lion of Zion has posted about the cantillation used in the reading of the Ten Commandments in synagogue. I have previously posted on this topic, but I wanted to draw the attention of those who are interested in Ta’amei ha-Mikrah to this article by Miles Cohen and David Freedman on the topic. On [...]
Just in time for my renewed interest in Hebrew grammar (a.k.a. learning all of the things which I never learned properly), Lion of Zion points us to a great blog on Biblical Hebrew grammar, Dikdukian. For those interested in learning about the subject a bit more, Codex has some great information and recommendations here [...]
See this post from Iyov about a ban on the 1917 JPS translation.
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