Mario Tafferner
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Alttestamentler at Tyndale Theological Seminary (NL).
Recently got the chance to speak on the "Exegetically Speaking" Podcast of Wheaton College / Lanier Theological Library. Here are some of my thoughts on the Hebrew of Nahum 1:
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The Lord is an Avenger and the Lord is Good, with Mario Tafferner: Nahum 1:7
Podcast Episode · Exegetically Speaking · 04/14/2025 · 11m
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April 14, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Recently got the chance to speak on the "Exegetically Speaking" Podcast of Wheaton College / Lanier Theological Library. Here are some of my thoughts on the Hebrew of Nahum 1:
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The more I study the Book of Kings, the more I am convinced that this work is at its heart an exegesis of God's promise to David in 2 Sam 7:1-17 in light of the catastrophe of the Exile. It wrestles with the truth of God's Word as circumstances seem to deny its trustworthiness.
March 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The more I study the Book of Kings, the more I am convinced that this work is at its heart an exegesis of God's promise to David in 2 Sam 7:1-17 in light of the catastrophe of the Exile. It wrestles with the truth of God's Word as circumstances seem to deny its trustworthiness.
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And here are the base letter-forms compared with Ancient South Arabian script
January 31, 2025 at 11:31 AM
And here are the base letter-forms compared with Ancient South Arabian script
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Just finished Aaron Hornkohl's 2023 'The Historical Depth of the Tiberian Reading Tradition of #Biblical #Hebrew' (👇 #OpenAccess). Full review forthcoming, but here's a few highlights for you. Hornkohl collects 25 cases where the reading tradition deviates from the consonantal text and finds: 1/7
The Historical Depth of the Tiberian Reading Tradition of Biblical Hebrew
This volume explores an underappreciated feature of the standard Tiberian Masoretic tradition of Biblical Hebrew, namely its composite nature. Focusing on cases of dissonance between the tradition’s w...
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January 24, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Just finished Aaron Hornkohl's 2023 'The Historical Depth of the Tiberian Reading Tradition of #Biblical #Hebrew' (👇 #OpenAccess). Full review forthcoming, but here's a few highlights for you. Hornkohl collects 25 cases where the reading tradition deviates from the consonantal text and finds: 1/7
This is the dictionary article I didn't know I needed to read today.
German Sack, French sac, Italian sacco 'sack, bag' are borrowed from Ancient Greek σάκκος via Latin saccus. Greek σάκκος is itself a Semitic loanword, cf. Akkadian saqqu 'sack(cloth)', Hebrew שַׂק śaq 'sack(cloth)'.
📷: Rafal Rosol (2013) Frühe semitische Lehnwörter im Griechischen.
📷: Rafal Rosol (2013) Frühe semitische Lehnwörter im Griechischen.
January 16, 2025 at 3:16 PM
This is the dictionary article I didn't know I needed to read today.