George Grena has outdone himself (a habit of his) in producing some fine drawings of the newly discovered bulla of Gedaliah ben (P?/M?/N?)ashhur. George has...
... On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Rochelle Altman wrote ... Dear Rochelle, Well, obviously, if you can't see that the top of the gimel almost touches the...
Hello all, Yitzhak Sapir has provided us with a drawing of Arad Ostracon 50 which is germane to our current discussion. If you'd like to view it, please go to...
George Grena has asked me to post an image of Arad Ostracon 50, relevant to a current discussion. You may view the file in our Files section, in the Arad...
... Dear George, If it makes you feel better, she probably is referring to me as a wannabe, since I'm the only one who has access to the ostracon's photo and...
... George, There is no way can I convince anyone who reads texts edited to conform to modern standards -- such as these below that you have sent out...
What do folks here think of the inscription supposedly alluding to a messiah who will die and rise in three days? As I understand it, the following are the...
... not a vowel is attached to the gimel. The gimel, dalet, and lamed are quite clear in the photograph; they are not hard to read at all. It is the yod and...
I don't know what I hit, but the darn thing was sent. Was just chuckling to myself and this should not have gone out. Sorry, Rochelle [Non-text portions of...
RISA said: "So, the lamed shows the closure of the syllable, as I pretty much said in a roundabout way. (Probably should have typed off-line, then I wouldn't...
My take on this has to do with the use of the theophoric. If the theophoric was truncated in pronounciation, I would expect the word GDL for "great" to be...
Hi All, The Encyclopedea Miqrait entry for Baal-Hanan has a drawing of a stamp that says "LeUza ben Baal Hanan". Does anyone know where or when this was found...
Given the Palestinian arrangment of the books in the Hebrew Bible, Torah, Nevaim, and Ketuviim, and given what is the prevalent subject matter in each of those...
Oftentimes people reject The Book of Enoch because of the following verse from Matthew 22:23-33 (ESV) "The same day Sadducees came to him, who say that there...
Let us all thank George Grena once more. He's provided us with some further drawings based on Eilat Mazar's photograph of the Gedalliah bulla: 1.) A comparison...
This was just announced by the DBG: Proverbs Edited by J. de Waard Biblia Hebraica Quinta - BHQ 17 Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft Stuttgart, Forthcoming November...
Eisenbrauns is offering 60 of our titles at 60-80% off retail for the month of August. That's between $8.00 and $29.00 per book. See the whole list here: ...
Ann Nyland, translator of The Source, claims that the phrase mias gunaikos andres, as found in 1 Tim. 3:1, 12 is found in Greek inscriptions that refer to...
I suspect that if I allowed the individual emails to come into my email reader, I might see all the unicode characters correctly. I note that Google reader...
Dear All, Does anyone have any idea why there is no mappiq in the last letter of the word LH, third word from last in Num. 32:42? The mappiq is missing in both...
I recall this text from Handel's Messiah - but I hear echoes of it even in popular songs and I think there was such an echo in this morning's service - but I...
I haven't seen this publicized elsewhere; it's only been up a few days: http://ramatracheldig.wordpress.com Thanks to the excavation team for their hard work!...
I'd like to call the list's attention to a relatively new documentary that first aired on BBC Four back in April, wherein a team of historians attempt to...
Carta has announced a title change on Ahituv's book on inscriptions. It is now titled "Echoes from the Past: Hebrew and Cognate Inscriptions from the Biblical...
Greetings, O quiet list folk! I trust you are all enjoying your summers or winters, depending upon where you reside. So, an interesting dustup has recently...
