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Thursday, May 31, 2018

21st Century Bible Hebrew -- the denouement

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Genesis 2:2-3   ב וַיְכַ֤ל אֱלֹהִים֙ בַּיּ֣וֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִ֔י מְלַאכְתּ֖וֹ אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָשָׂ֑ה וַיִּשְׁבֹּת֙ בַּיּ֣וֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִ֔י מִכָּל־מְלַאכְתּ֖וֹ אֲשֶׁ֥ר ...
Sunday, May 27, 2018

Garden -- fiddleheads

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So this is my fern, which you have seen before all feathery and green. It spored this spring and is now developing fronds. I took th...
Friday, May 25, 2018

Fact-Checking the Torah -- Olrik meets Cook

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SWLT rule 2 says grammar communicates nuances. Nuances include what the speaker thinks, believes, or feels. This is the realm of the modali...
Thursday, May 24, 2018

21st Century Bible Hebrew -- Genesis 2:2-3, Shabbat

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Genesis 2:2-3   ב וַיְכַ֤ל אֱלֹהִים֙ בַּיּ֣וֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִ֔י מְלַאכְתּ֖וֹ אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָשָׂ֑ה וַיִּשְׁבֹּת֙ בַּיּ֣וֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִ֔י מִכָּל־מְלַאכְתּ֖וֹ אֲשֶׁ֥ר ...
Friday, May 18, 2018

Fact-Checking the Torah -- Olrik meets SWLT

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Narrators have to maintain their credibility with an audience thoroughly familiar with the sitz-im-leben of the narratives. There are severa...
Thursday, May 17, 2018

21st Century Bible Hebrew -- pual, hufal and ... qual

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Genesis 2:1 א וַיְכֻלּ֛וּ הַשָּׁמַ֥יִם וְהָאָ֖רֶץ וְכָל־צְבָאָֽם Translation:      The heaven and earth were completed and all their ho...
Sunday, May 13, 2018

I'm just saying -- Corporate America scores again

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That is, they score a big fat nothing. The last score was worse: a company that used to be synonymous with kosher fish snacks turned out a...