Hat tip to Todd Bolen at the Bible Places blog for this post. If you have a Kindle and are into biblical Hebrew, you’ll no doubt be interested.
I've had a number of people ask my opinion of Alter's new translation. I haven't read it. I also had several people send me the recent Wall Street Journal review by Blaire French. (Thanks to all of them!) I've reproduced it below. It's a good (and important)...
The first few sentences of this review of the Song of Songs (aka, the Song of Solomon) in the Passion Translation (the one that is enthusiastically promoted by NAR apostles) says it all: This translation of the Song of Songs is truly awful. As a professor of biblical...
I sometimes get email asking about transliteration (and pronunciation) of Hebrew words. Transliteration can help folks who want to try and pronounce Hebrew. This new online tool allows you to paste in Hebrew text and get an instant transliteration (an accurate one,...
This just popped into my In box. I apologize for being so behind the curve on this but, as I noted on my "About" page, I don't follow the NAR (New Apostolic Reformation) nor do I think its distinctive teachings are scriptural. But lots of movements have those sorts of...
Last November I interviewed Dr. Carl Sanders and Dr. Thomas Hudgins about their controversial paper delivered at the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society. The paper argues that major shifts in thinking about how biblical languages are taught and what...
That's the subject of the most recent podcast episode of Mark Goodacre's NT Pod. As Naked Bible readers may know, my own answer is no. Professor Goodacre (Duke University) agrees. Have a listen!
Wanted to get the hebrew bible on amazon but it wouldn’t let me or give me a price.Any advice? Thanks – my daughter’s doing Jewish History & Hebrew at UCL universityand thought it’d be great for her on kindle
no; I don’t have a Kindle and don’t have any idea how Amazon does what it does.