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Friday, July 28, 2017

Fact-Checking the Torah -- DH's Conjunction Fallacy

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The steps in DH that get to JE are all required and that makes this description a conjunction. The idea that DH is true is based on the Con...
Thursday, July 27, 2017

21st Century Bible Hebrew -- nuance of certainty epistemic

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Genesis 1:5   ה וַיִּקְרָא אֱלֹהִים לָאוֹר יוֹם וְלַחֹשֶׁךְ קָרָא לָיְלָה וַיְהִי־עֶרֶב וַיְהִי־בֹקֶר יוֹם אֶחָד:   Translation:        ...
Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Mendel Beilis Trial -- Day 30

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R. Yosef Gabriel Bechhofer did it to me again. I've been listening to his audio lectures on Jerusalem Talmud. Today I got to a lesso...
Sunday, July 23, 2017

Knitting -- lace, Da Puzzle from Unst

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Unst Island has produced a number of unique Shetland lace motifs, and Da Puzzle is one of them. One blogger found a reference to it in a n...
Friday, July 21, 2017

Fact-Checking the Torah -- predicting the product

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So we’ve established that the probability that DH is true relies on the probability of every claim it makes, for all the claims that are re...
Thursday, July 20, 2017

21st Century Bible Hebrew -- "call, give a name"

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Genesis 1:5   ה וַיִּקְרָא אֱלֹהִים לָאוֹר יוֹם וְלַחֹשֶׁךְ קָרָא לָיְלָה וַיְהִי־עֶרֶב וַיְהִי־בֹקֶר יוֹם אֶחָד:   Transliteration: Va-...
Sunday, July 16, 2017

Garden -- feeding the birds & bees

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I planted lots of things in my garden and fostered others to attract birds and feed bees. This thing with the yellow flowers, I planted ye...