As a school child, I hated dikduk – biblical grammar. I remember the head-scratcher Ms. Korach taught us about personal ...

In Hebrew poetry, a vertical grammatical relation between two parallel lines can be noted in bicolons such as Ps 18:42. One can also recognize the vertical grammar between the first and the last lines ...

ByR.P. NETTELHORST OCTOBER 3, 2015 03:27 I just finished the second week of teaching biblical Hebrew once again. I’ve been teaching biblical Hebrew—not the modern language—for nearly thirty years now.

Prof. Yehoshua Blau, giant of Semitic languages, dies at 101 Israel Prize-winning scholar of biblical Hebrew grammar and Judeo-Arabic fled the Nazis in 1938 to settle in pre-state Israel, where he ...

The traditional rendering “grace” for חֵן is controversial. Frame semantics, a theory originating in cognitive linguistics, anticipates that prototypical situations are evoked in language users’ minds ...

Aviya Kushner knew the Bible in its original Hebrew by heart, but when she took a graduate course on the Old Testament, the author didn’t recognize the text she had grown up with. The experience ...

Medieval Muslim scholars were the first to use the: “’Ahl Alkitab — the People of the Book” in referring to Jewish people. The name recognizes that we Jews have a very special relationship with ...

In her first book, Kushner, who teaches writing at Columbia College in Chicago, reports on her travels through the Bible in English translation. Thoroughly modern, though steeped in Jewish tradition ...

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