Menachem Mendel

Here are some recent decisions of the Academy of the Hebrew Language. blogger-רשתונאי tweet-שדרון comment on a blog/talkback-קישורית

Posted on March 8th, 2011 under Hebrew. Comments Off

I have written a number of times about Tanakh Ram, the modern Hebrew rewritten Tanakh, and it seems as if the discussion is only getting louder. Haaretz has an article about the drastic drop in the number of students from secular Israeli schools (mamlakhti) who are taking the bagrut test in Tanakh at the highest [...]

Posted on February 24th, 2011 under Bible Studies, Hebrew, Hebrew Literature. Comments Off

The blog על קצה הלשון does a quick survey of Hebrew-Hebrew dictionaries.

Posted on January 27th, 2011 under Hebrew. Comments Off

Haaretz has an article (English) (Hebrew) about Oded Ezer, a graphic artist who has designed a new Hebrew font, Rutz. The article describes the process of creating a new font and gives an overview of the most popular Hebrew fonts in use today and their history.

Posted on January 5th, 2011 under Hebrew, Hebrew Literature, Hebrew Printing. Comments Off

How should קולמוס be pronounced? See this discussion.

Posted on December 2nd, 2010 under Hebrew, Manuscripts, Mishnah. Comments Off

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 [...]

Posted on November 18th, 2010 under Bible Studies, Hebrew. Comments Off

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 [...]

Posted on October 4th, 2010 under Bible Studies, Hebrew, Israel. Comments Off

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 [...]

Posted on September 5th, 2010 under Bible Studies, Hebrew, Online resources. Comments Off

For a good summary in English of different opinions on the origins of Ketiv and Qere, see the article The Origins of Ketiv-Qere Readings by Michael Graves. In order to read the Hebrew, most people will have to download additional fonts. For those who have access to Leshoneinu, the last few issues have had a [...]

Posted on July 27th, 2010 under Bible Studies, Hebrew. Comments: 3