Douglas Fyfe
@duck5.bsky.social
Once wrote a book on the structure of Ecclesiastes.
Studying PhD in Psalms at University of Sydney.
Always happy to talk about home brewing and backyard chickens.
Occasionally blogging at duck5.blogspot.com
Studying PhD in Psalms at University of Sydney.
Always happy to talk about home brewing and backyard chickens.
Occasionally blogging at duck5.blogspot.com
For advent this year I’m planning to preach on the passages some carols are based on. Here’s how Psalm 98 and Joy to the World map on to each other:
November 12, 2025 at 7:02 AM
For advent this year I’m planning to preach on the passages some carols are based on. Here’s how Psalm 98 and Joy to the World map on to each other:
I believe this is a photo from their conversation about their scheme.
November 11, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I believe this is a photo from their conversation about their scheme.
I am compiling a list of things to check out on a return visit. I had time constraints so was very focused on Bk IV.
But here are the last pages of the C14 Psalms Ms Nicholson 36 (said to be ex-Naples); I have trouble making anything out.
But here are the last pages of the C14 Psalms Ms Nicholson 36 (said to be ex-Naples); I have trouble making anything out.
November 11, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I am compiling a list of things to check out on a return visit. I had time constraints so was very focused on Bk IV.
But here are the last pages of the C14 Psalms Ms Nicholson 36 (said to be ex-Naples); I have trouble making anything out.
But here are the last pages of the C14 Psalms Ms Nicholson 36 (said to be ex-Naples); I have trouble making anything out.
Apparently my book is heaps cheap if you’re in the US. Everything you wanted to know about the structure of Ecclesiastes but were afraid to ask.
November 7, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Apparently my book is heaps cheap if you’re in the US. Everything you wanted to know about the structure of Ecclesiastes but were afraid to ask.
Not sure why this sign irritated me so.
November 7, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Not sure why this sign irritated me so.
Day two in the Sydney University dungeon. Had a look at this one yesterday, a 1491 HB. This is the botanical artwork around and initial letter of Psalm 1 in Nicholson 35.
November 6, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Day two in the Sydney University dungeon. Had a look at this one yesterday, a 1491 HB. This is the botanical artwork around and initial letter of Psalm 1 in Nicholson 35.
I promise I'm not looking for these
but the last two verses of Romans also look like a really nice chiastic structure.
It centres (E) around the revelation, begins and ends (A) with the only wise God who is able to establish you
(B) "my gospel"//the Gentiles coming to faith
I think it works!
but the last two verses of Romans also look like a really nice chiastic structure.
It centres (E) around the revelation, begins and ends (A) with the only wise God who is able to establish you
(B) "my gospel"//the Gentiles coming to faith
I think it works!
November 4, 2025 at 12:20 AM
I promise I'm not looking for these
but the last two verses of Romans also look like a really nice chiastic structure.
It centres (E) around the revelation, begins and ends (A) with the only wise God who is able to establish you
(B) "my gospel"//the Gentiles coming to faith
I think it works!
but the last two verses of Romans also look like a really nice chiastic structure.
It centres (E) around the revelation, begins and ends (A) with the only wise God who is able to establish you
(B) "my gospel"//the Gentiles coming to faith
I think it works!
I think Romans 15:1-7 is its own little structure as a response to the issue of chapter 14. The structure, based around repeated lexemes, looks like this.
And in the middle, as with my chapter 14 structure (embedded somewhere in this thread) is another verse from Scripture.
And in the middle, as with my chapter 14 structure (embedded somewhere in this thread) is another verse from Scripture.
October 28, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I think Romans 15:1-7 is its own little structure as a response to the issue of chapter 14. The structure, based around repeated lexemes, looks like this.
And in the middle, as with my chapter 14 structure (embedded somewhere in this thread) is another verse from Scripture.
And in the middle, as with my chapter 14 structure (embedded somewhere in this thread) is another verse from Scripture.
My structure for Romans 14 looks a little something like this:
It's based on repeated lexemes and themes.
At the centre is the panegyric of 14:11 quoting Isaiah 45:23.
It all gets a bit mixed up if you extend the section to chapter 15, so I'm wrestling with how that works at the moment.
It's based on repeated lexemes and themes.
At the centre is the panegyric of 14:11 quoting Isaiah 45:23.
It all gets a bit mixed up if you extend the section to chapter 15, so I'm wrestling with how that works at the moment.
October 27, 2025 at 11:43 PM
My structure for Romans 14 looks a little something like this:
It's based on repeated lexemes and themes.
At the centre is the panegyric of 14:11 quoting Isaiah 45:23.
It all gets a bit mixed up if you extend the section to chapter 15, so I'm wrestling with how that works at the moment.
It's based on repeated lexemes and themes.
At the centre is the panegyric of 14:11 quoting Isaiah 45:23.
It all gets a bit mixed up if you extend the section to chapter 15, so I'm wrestling with how that works at the moment.
A rare combination of Tiberian and Palestinian cantillation on my son’s pyjamas
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October 17, 2025 at 10:25 AM
A rare combination of Tiberian and Palestinian cantillation on my son’s pyjamas
Just starting to work on Romans 13 for next week; this structure for 12-13 looks plausible and useful. What to actually say about 13 at this moment in history is another question altogether! 🪔
October 15, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Just starting to work on Romans 13 for next week; this structure for 12-13 looks plausible and useful. What to actually say about 13 at this moment in history is another question altogether! 🪔
now I can only imagine a dog in a basket
oh wait, now I'm imagining friday arvo schooners. much better
oh wait, now I'm imagining friday arvo schooners. much better
September 19, 2025 at 3:01 AM
now I can only imagine a dog in a basket
oh wait, now I'm imagining friday arvo schooners. much better
oh wait, now I'm imagining friday arvo schooners. much better
Quote post with an album you'd rate a perfect 10 out of 10.
September 4, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Quote post with an album you'd rate a perfect 10 out of 10.
Stay tuned for the collision of three protest marches and the marathon in Sydney tomorrow. 35,000 runners, a pro-Australia march, a pro-Palestine march, and a pro-refugee march, all converging within a few square hundred metres of each other.
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August 30, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Stay tuned for the collision of three protest marches and the marathon in Sydney tomorrow. 35,000 runners, a pro-Australia march, a pro-Palestine march, and a pro-refugee march, all converging within a few square hundred metres of each other.
(Link to video in alt text)
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I really enjoyed how Zachary Thomas of ACU talked through the lack of remains left by nomadic societies; increased material remains is more about communities become sedentary than massive influxes of people.
August 29, 2025 at 5:32 AM
I really enjoyed how Zachary Thomas of ACU talked through the lack of remains left by nomadic societies; increased material remains is more about communities become sedentary than massive influxes of people.
Engaging Fellowship of Biblical Studies lecture today on Archaeology in the Study of Early Israel. The main take away was don’t listen to anyone who says their discipline has all the answers. 🪔📜
August 29, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Engaging Fellowship of Biblical Studies lecture today on Archaeology in the Study of Early Israel. The main take away was don’t listen to anyone who says their discipline has all the answers. 🪔📜
This other manuscript I looked at today combined psalms 98-100 as a single psalm, and where the rest of the psalms were written in offset stichometry (there's a better term but I've forgotten it), the 99 portion was written as just one really long sentence.
I wonder what the scribe was thinking 🤔
I wonder what the scribe was thinking 🤔
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August 15, 2025 at 5:24 AM
This other manuscript I looked at today combined psalms 98-100 as a single psalm, and where the rest of the psalms were written in offset stichometry (there's a better term but I've forgotten it), the 99 portion was written as just one really long sentence.
I wonder what the scribe was thinking 🤔
I wonder what the scribe was thinking 🤔
3. Some manuscripts roll certain psalms together, such as this one here running straight on from 103 to 104 as if it's the same psalm. Each manuscript is unique in when and if this happens. This one is Ms. or. fol. 585 from 1347, Berlin Staatsbibiliothek.
August 15, 2025 at 5:24 AM
3. Some manuscripts roll certain psalms together, such as this one here running straight on from 103 to 104 as if it's the same psalm. Each manuscript is unique in when and if this happens. This one is Ms. or. fol. 585 from 1347, Berlin Staatsbibiliothek.
I'm not going to give alt text because I don't fully get it but I think the above is what it says about the psalms I'm interested in. I don't know how to get a look at Kennicott 245 short of going and looking at that microfilm in Jerusalem so I'll have to take her word for it.
August 8, 2025 at 6:34 AM
I'm not going to give alt text because I don't fully get it but I think the above is what it says about the psalms I'm interested in. I don't know how to get a look at Kennicott 245 short of going and looking at that microfilm in Jerusalem so I'll have to take her word for it.
A pox on UPenn Press and your stinking endnotes.
Otherwise I’m enjoying Berkovitz, “A Life of Psalms in Late Antiquity”
But again, endnotes?!
Otherwise I’m enjoying Berkovitz, “A Life of Psalms in Late Antiquity”
But again, endnotes?!
July 24, 2025 at 2:22 AM
A pox on UPenn Press and your stinking endnotes.
Otherwise I’m enjoying Berkovitz, “A Life of Psalms in Late Antiquity”
But again, endnotes?!
Otherwise I’m enjoying Berkovitz, “A Life of Psalms in Late Antiquity”
But again, endnotes?!
I promise I don't spend my life searching out chiastic/envelope structures. But here's Romans 2:6-11
July 22, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I promise I don't spend my life searching out chiastic/envelope structures. But here's Romans 2:6-11
Of course, the problem of waiting so long to do a series on Romans means I have too much fodder to work through. I somehow keep accumulating books on and related to Romans.
July 9, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Of course, the problem of waiting so long to do a series on Romans means I have too much fodder to work through. I somehow keep accumulating books on and related to Romans.
Preaching through Romans for the rest of the year; I should probably start reading this bad boy. Let’s do this Karl!
Oh and please don’t use any of that tricky theological German thx.
Oh and please don’t use any of that tricky theological German thx.
July 9, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Preaching through Romans for the rest of the year; I should probably start reading this bad boy. Let’s do this Karl!
Oh and please don’t use any of that tricky theological German thx.
Oh and please don’t use any of that tricky theological German thx.