Huhn on Lincoln’s Use of Biblical Imagery: Wilson Ray Huhn (University of Akron – School of Law) has posted A Higher Law: Abraham Lincolns Use of Biblical Imagery on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This article describes Lincoln’s use of biblical imagery in seven of his works: the Peoria Address, the House Divided Speech, his [...]
If you are looking for some choice commentaries on specific biblical verses, check out these suggestions.
Biblical Studies Carnival LVII is posted at Bulletin for the Study of Religion. It is quite an overflowing carnival with something for everyone. It even links to yoga according to the Hebrew alphabet.
Biblia Hebraica et Graeca has posted the first part of an interview with Seth Sanders, author of The Invention of Hebrew. ———- 1. The central question of your book – why did the Israelites start writing in Hebrew at all – seems so fundamental to the study of biblical literature, yet studies on the origin [...]
Ralph W. Klein has website that is filled with links and information about Biblical Studies, Hebrew, the Ancient Near East, ect. Go take a look.
I have written a number of times about a modern Hebrew “translation” of the Torah. Previous posts can be found here, here, and here. The translation has finally hit the stores, and there have been a number of articles in the Israeli press about it. See this (Hebrew) article from Haaretz that includes an interview [...]
William H.C. Propp and Jeffrey Tigay have written a helpful introduction about how to conduct Biblical Research, although their introductory paragraph is applicable to most other fields. Tigay has written a more general guide to research papers that can be found here. (.doc format) A graduate essay is very different from an undergraduate paper. It [...]
At Parshablog R. Josh Waxman mentions a new ḥumrah against using maps. This ḥumrah is from a ḥassidisch school, so there’s no reason to think that this absurdity has gone beyond this school’s walls, and let’s hope that it doesn’t. Josh comments that I’d just point out that Mizrachi, the famous supercommentator of Rashi, includes [...]
While looking up some information about the book The Hebrew Bible: New Insights and Scholarship, I came across the website of Prof. Gary A. Rendsburg, an scholar of the Bible and the Hebrew Language. Rendsburg’s website contains many PDF’s of articles and book reviews that Rendsburg has written, offering dozens of articles about the Bible [...]
An exhibition just ended at Lambeth Palace Library in London that featured both a complete Bomberg Talmud and a Gutenberg Bible. Read here about the very interesting history of this copy of the Bomberg Talmud.
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