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Friday, June 30, 2017

Fact-Checking the Torah -- scholarly writing

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There’s a basic problem with all academic work that came out in papers I ran across while researching this blog.   Sources. When academic...
Thursday, June 29, 2017

21st Century Bible Hebrew -- idioms

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Genesis 1:4   ד וַיַּרְא אֱלֹהִים אֶת־הָאוֹר כִּי־טוֹב וַיַּבְדֵּל אֱלֹהִים בֵּין הָאוֹר וּבֵין הַחֹשֶׁךְ :   Translation:      Gd must have ...
Sunday, June 25, 2017

I'm just saying -- tools

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I have a new sympathy with guys and their tools and their complaints about tools. Tools have been dumbed down for people who don't bot...
Friday, June 23, 2017

Fact-Checking the Torah -- Ginsberg's Theorem

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It seemed pretty obvious to parallel SWLT with the laws of thermodynamics.   Now I’ll summarize. Rule 1 says, in a way, that cultures can...
Thursday, June 22, 2017

21st Century Bible Hebrew -- Rare verb forms

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Genesis 1:4   ד וַיַּרְא אֱלֹהִים אֶת־הָאוֹר כִּי־טוֹב וַיַּבְדֵּל אֱלֹהִים בֵּין הָאוֹר וּבֵין הַחֹשֶׁךְ :   Translation:      Gd must have ...
Sunday, June 18, 2017

Knitting -- more lace

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Two more finished projects from  my leftover yarn. Here is the finished ocean wave pattern. I know there's a mistake in it, and I know...
Friday, June 16, 2017

Fact-Checking the Torah -- who did what?

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Since Talmud doesn’t show signs of the claimed textual emendation, and halakhah did not change as a result of those 14 cases of qetani l’ts...