Reading the Book of Isaiah (13.1-22)
As I have mentioned (here) I am participating in “Greek Isaiah in a Year” reading group. These are my notes from this week (13:1-22). If the font does not appear correctly I have been using SBL Greek...
View ArticleReading the Book of Isaiah (14:1-4)
As I have mentioned (here) I am participating in “Greek Isaiah in a Year” reading group. I’ve fallen a bit behind these last couple weeks, and this week was particularly busy, so my notes are few....
View ArticleA head of words? (Daniel 7:1)
Daniel 7:1 reads, “In year one of Belshazzar king of Babel, Daniel saw a dream and a visions of his head upon his bed; then, the dream he wrote a head of words, he said…” This is a very wooden...
View ArticleReading the Book of Isaiah (14:5-8)
As I have mentioned (here) I am participating in “Greek Isaiah in a Year” reading group. I’ve fallen a bit behind these last few weeks (I should be through chapter 18!), so I will approach this with a...
View ArticleReading the Book of Isaiah (14:9-20)
As I have mentioned (here) I am participating in “Greek Isaiah in a Year” reading group. These are my notes from this week (14:9-20). 14:9 MT: Sheol (שׁאול) rejoices and comes out to meet the King....
View ArticleReading the Book of Isaiah (14:21-32)
As I have mentioned (here) I am participating in “Greek Isaiah in a Year” reading group. These are my notes from this week (14:21-32). 14:21 MT: The imperative הכינו commands for the King’s sons to be...
View ArticleForthcoming book blog tour
Timothy Michael Law’s When God Spoke Greek: The Septuagint and the Making of the Christian Bible is scheduled to be released by Oxford University Press on July 19th and this blog will be the...
View ArticleBOOK BLOG TOUR: T. Michael Law’s When God Spoke Greek
This weekend is the beginning of a book blog tour highlighting and discussing T. Michael Law’s new book When God Spoke Greek: The Septuagint and the Making of the Christian Bible. I have selected seven...
View ArticleNineveh: an exceedingly great city or a great city to God/the Gods (Jonah 3:3)
Jonah 3:3 reads as follows in the NASB: “So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, a three days’ walk.” On a few occasions in...
View ArticleThe Septuagint Sessions
As others have mentioned already (Deane Galbraith, Abram K-J) there is now a podcast dedicated to the Septuagint. T. Michael Law’s “The Septuagint Sessions: On the Greek Bible and Related Literature”...
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