The German Bible Society has a really nice website where you can access their critical editions. See here: BHS, LXX, NA27, UBS4, Vulgate and more One cool way to use the site is to link to specific passages in blog posts or tweets. For instance, here, you can check out the story where Paul preaches…
Step 1 for every ThM and PhD student @SBTS is Graduate Research Seminar (GRS), though “seminar” is a bit of a misnomer. It is a very helpful three-day class that introduces students to delightful things such as Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), elements of proper writing style, the seminary style manual, the vast electronic…
What does it mean that all roads of Septuagint studies lead back to Origen? Dines states it nicely, Origen had not intended his work to be used indiscriminately; it was to help users of the Bible who needed a clearer picture of the text in order to gain access to the Hebrew, whether for debate…
I’ve said a few times that if Christians in America ever experience more explicit, intense persecution, we will rediscover the true meaning and purpose of the biblical prophetic literature. It was interesting to read a similar thought from Jennifer Dines concerning the “prophetic gap.” If the Pentateuch was translated in the mid-second century B.C.E. and…
There is a general consensus among scholars that the first first few books of the Septuagint were translated in the early- to mid-third century B.C.E in Alexandria. In her concise little Introduction to the Septuagint, Jennifer Dines ponders, Why were written Scriptures needed, or permitted, in Greek at a time when they were not, apparently,…
Many people don’t realize that an exclamation point in print is equivalent to shouting. I’m sure Y. A. P. Goldman, editor of the Qoheleth portion of BHQ’s Megilloth fascile, is not one of those people. So, when I read the exclamatory statement below, I smiled. Concerning ומי־אהב בהמון in Ecclesiastes 5:9, he says, The preposition…
Charles Halton has posted an interview with the creators of the Hebrew Bible for Kindle. This is a very affordable ($10!) and well produced resource, especially considering the programming limitations of the Kindle. It even includes a Hebrew and Aramaic glossary. Happy to hear a little of the backstory from those who put it together,…
The man even has a line of cigars named after him… [These guys have a full review]
Now a research argument is not like the heated exchanges we hear every day. Those arguments usually involve a dispute: children argue over a toy; roommates over the stereo; drivers about who had the right-of-way. Such arguments can be polite or nasty, but most involve conflict, with winners and losers. To be sure, researchers sometimes…
Anyone with the slightest bit of experience doing word studies knows what a wearisome task the lexicographer has. Today, as my mind wandered from the task at hand, I flipped through the front pages of Takamitsu Muraoka’s Greek-English Lexicon of the Septuagint. What verses did he choose to include at the end of his Introduction (page…
