Tag: Hebrew
Hasselbach and Pat-El, eds., Language and Nature
The University of Chicago is making the new Festschrift for John Huehnergard available for free in PDF format (HT: Charles Jones).
Putnam, A New Grammar of Biblical Hebrew
Fred Putnam’s New Grammar of Biblical Hebrew is now out (affiliate disclosure). According to the publisher, This is a Hebrew grammar with a difference, being the first truly discourse-based grammar. Its goal is for students to understand Biblical Hebrew as a language, seeing its forms and conjugations as a coherent linguistic system, appreciating why and…
Donnerstag Digest (August 26, 2010)
This week in the biblioblogosphere: Mark Goodacre finds and makes available a PDF version of Wilhelm Wrede’s Paul. Daniel and Tonya draw attention to Alex Andrason’s recent article on the use of yiqtol in Biblical Hebrew (via Uri Hurwitz) and Randall Buth’s response to the article. Via Ekaterini Tsalampouni, Holger Szesnat mentions the availability of…
Computing Ugaritic
Sunday, National Geographic reported that researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology had successfully tested a computer system that, by itself, deciphered a substantial amount of Ugaritic “in a matter of hours” (MIT press release). This system is based on a statistical model developed by Benjamin Snyder and Regina Barzilay of MIT and Kevin Knight…