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Patriarchal Names in Context | Published in Tyndale Bulletin By Alan Millard. Comparison of Amorite and Patriarchal names suggests that the composer(s) of the Patriarchal and Exodus narratives, writing during or after the Hebrew monarchy, drew on reliable ancie...

New article by Professor Alan Millard ✝ (Rankin Professor Emeritus of Hebrew and Ancient Semitic Languages, University of Liverpool) now available: Patriarchal Names in Context www.tyndalebulletin.org/article/1176...

17.12.2024 12:08 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1

Diachronic Diversity in Classical Biblical Hebrew According to the standard periodisation of ancient Hebrew, the division of Biblical Hebrew as reflected in the Masoretic tradition is basically dichotomous: pre-exilic Classical Biblical Hebrew (CBH) ...

Very promising new #OpenAcess book on the #Hebrew of the Pentateuch vs. other pre-exilic texts by Aaron Hornkohl.

02.12.2024 09:45 — 👍 30    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 2

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Am I on?!

Come and join us on Friday for @drpjwilliams.bsky.social’s visit to Yarnton Manor.

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25.11.2024 11:37 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

‘An Absurd Rage for Public Speaking’: An Abolitionist Fair Orator in the London Debating Societies, 1788–1791 On 11 May 1789, the night before Parliament’s first debate on ending the slave trade, a woman advocated for abolition before hundreds of Londoners at a debating society. Despite her compelling orat...

🚨 I'm thrilled to learn @Cambridge_Uni has covered the immense cost to make my article on the Fair Orator—an 18th-century woman against the slave trade—FREE!

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22.11.2024 14:04 — 👍 26    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 1

‘An Absurd Rage for Public Speaking’: An Abolitionist Fair Orator in the London Debating Societies, 1788–1791 On 11 May 1789, the night before Parliament’s first debate on ending the slave trade, a woman advocated for abolition before hundreds of Londoners at a debating society. Despite her compelling orat...

My first journal article is published! My research for @camhistory.bsky.social tells of a woman lost to history who spoke against the slave trade hours before Wilberforce’s 1st speech. Secret spy reports reveal the challenges women faced in public speaking: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

17.11.2024 22:39 — 👍 180    🔁 48    💬 9    📌 3

Am wondering about the Biblical name ⟨Mishael⟩ (מִישָׁאֵל).

Grateful for suggestions as to how to analyse/translate it.

‘Who is of God?’ is possible I guess, though doesn’t work quite as well as ⟨Michael⟩ (מִיכָאֵל).

If it reflected *[Mayšaʕ-ʔIl] = ‘God is a Saviour’—a cognate of…

13.11.2024 15:36 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

Writing the name of God in Greek Dirk Jongkind traces the history of scribal innovations for writing God’s name and explores how these innovations still appear in churches today

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14.11.2024 15:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A photo of a girl holding a book. She is wearing a short sleeved blouse and checked dress.

14 November 1924 | Polish Jewish girl, Hina Nadolna, was born in Warsaw. She emigrated to France.

She was deported to Auschwitz from Drancy on 24 July 1942. She did not survive.

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