Another interesting podcast from the Association of Jewish Libraries is Yaffa Weisman’s Freedom of Speech: Assimilating Slang, Jargon and Other Languages into Current Israeli Hebrew. The classic dictionary of Hebrew slang is that of Dan Ben-Amotz and Netiva Ben-Yehudah. For more on Hebrew slang see here, here (a little dated), and here for [...]
This Shabbat is Parashat Zachor, the maftir that grammarians and Torah readers love to ponder upon. For a discussion of the issues related to this Torah reading and the mistaken custom of some synagogues, see here and here. In today’s installment of his program, באופן מילולי, (“Literally Speaking”) Dr. Avshalom Koor discussed a [...]
Prof. Daniel Sivan and Dr. Chaim Dihi have written a new Aramaic-Hebrew dictionary. The dictionary is for the reader who wants to familiarize themselves with Aramaic words which are used in modern Hebrew.
Professor Steven Fassberg will be speaking at JTS on
The Dead Sea Scrolls and Their Contribution to the Study of Hebrew and Aramaic
Date: Monday, February 8
Time: 3:40 p.m.
Place: Wingate Auditorium, JTS
I just came across Joel M. Hoffman’s blog God Didn’t Say That: Bible Translations and Mistranslations. Recommended for those interested in the Bible, Hebrew, and translation.
(photo courtesy of the University of Haifa)
Never a dull moment for the history of the Hebrew language.
A breakthrough in the research of the Hebrew scriptures has shed new light on the period in which the Bible was written. Prof. Gershon Galil of the Department of Biblical Studies at the University of Haifa has deciphered an [...]
If one were to conduct any type of search for the word חנוכייה, Hanukkiyah, in Hebrew literature before the 20th century they would most likely come up empty. The word simply does not exist in Biblical, Talmudic, nor Medieval Hebrew literature. In the Temple there was the מנורה, and when describing what one [...]
Copied almost in toto from Ancient Hebrew Poetry. Read this bio of Abraham Shmuelof whose recordings of the Tanakh are linked to below. Talk about someone who changed directions in life.
The Very Best Online Resources for Students of Biblical Hebrew:
Five resources are particularly useful.
(1) The best online edition of the Hebrew Bible is [...]
My parents told me about a post at the blog D’yo Ilu Yamey which includes a number of translations of poems relating to the Akedah and the life of Abraham. They offer some thought-provoking material from modern texts for Rosh ha-Shannah study since Gen. chapters 21-22 are read on Rosh ha-Shannah. The poems can [...]
I recent wrote here about Berry Sakharov and Rea Mochiach’s putting of poetry by Shelomo ibn Gabriol to music. One of the pioneers of such attempts is Meir Banai of the multi-talented Banai family. In 2007 he released an album שמע קולי which features musical renditions of traditional Jewish liturgical compositions. One of [...]
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