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New article by Professor Alan Millard ✝ (Rankin Professor Emeritus of Hebrew and Ancient Semitic Languages, University of Liverpool) now available: Patriarchal Names in Context www.tyndalebulletin.org/article/1176...
Patriarchal Names in Context | Published in Tyndale Bulletin
By Alan Millard. Comparison of Amorite and Patriarchal names suggests that the composer(s) of the Patriarchal and Exodus narratives, writing during or after the Hebrew monarchy, drew on reliable ancie...
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December 17, 2024 at 12:08 PM
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Very promising new #OpenAcess book on the #Hebrew of the Pentateuch vs. other pre-exilic texts by Aaron Hornkohl.
Diachronic Diversity in Classical Biblical Hebrew
According to the standard periodisation of ancient Hebrew, the division of Biblical Hebrew as reflected in the Masoretic tradition is basically dichotomous: pre-exilic Classical Biblical Hebrew (CBH) ...
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December 2, 2024 at 9:45 AM
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Testing. Testing.
Am I on?!

Come and join us on Friday for @drpjwilliams.bsky.social’s visit to Yarnton Manor.

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November 25, 2024 at 11:37 AM
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🚨 I'm thrilled to learn @Cambridge_Uni has covered the immense cost to make my article on the Fair Orator—an 18th-century woman against the slave trade—FREE!

I’ve wanted the world to know her story. Could you help by Liking & Reposting?

You can read it for free: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘An Absurd Rage for Public Speaking’: An Abolitionist Fair Orator in the London Debating Societies, 1788–1791
On 11 May 1789, the night before Parliament’s first debate on ending the slave trade, a woman advocated for abolition before hundreds of Londoners at a debating society. Despite her compelling orat...
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November 22, 2024 at 2:04 PM
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My first journal article is published! My research for @camhistory.bsky.social tells of a woman lost to history who spoke against the slave trade hours before Wilberforce’s 1st speech. Secret spy reports reveal the challenges women faced in public speaking: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘An Absurd Rage for Public Speaking’: An Abolitionist Fair Orator in the London Debating Societies, 1788–1791
On 11 May 1789, the night before Parliament’s first debate on ending the slave trade, a woman advocated for abolition before hundreds of Londoners at a debating society. Despite her compelling orat...
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November 17, 2024 at 10:40 PM
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Am wondering about the Biblical name ⟨Mishael⟩ (מִישָׁאֵל).

Grateful for suggestions as to how to analyse/translate it.

‘Who is of God?’ is possible I guess, though doesn’t work quite as well as ⟨Michael⟩ (מִיכָאֵל).

If it reflected *[Mayšaʕ-ʔIl] = ‘God is a Saviour’—a cognate of…
November 13, 2024 at 3:36 PM
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14 November 1924 | Polish Jewish girl, Hina Nadolna, was born in Warsaw. She emigrated to France.

She was deported to Auschwitz from Drancy on 24 July 1942. She did not survive.
November 14, 2024 at 12:00 PM