Parker Arnold
@parkerarnold.bsky.social
HB/OT studies, narrative reading, textual criticism.
Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Bible and Social Studies Teacher, Morrison Academy
Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Bible and Social Studies Teacher, Morrison Academy
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A disruption in Taiwan's exports could hit US builders hard. Drywall needs 125 screws per 100 sq. ft., and most came from Taiwan last year. A business professor breaks down the impact on U.S. imports: buff.ly/QoA65Cn #tariffs #supplychain
Jay L. Zagorsky @bostonu.bsky.social
Jay L. Zagorsky @bostonu.bsky.social
April 4, 2025 at 6:52 PM
A disruption in Taiwan's exports could hit US builders hard. Drywall needs 125 screws per 100 sq. ft., and most came from Taiwan last year. A business professor breaks down the impact on U.S. imports: buff.ly/QoA65Cn #tariffs #supplychain
Jay L. Zagorsky @bostonu.bsky.social
Jay L. Zagorsky @bostonu.bsky.social
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,738,588!
October 6, 2024 at 11:12 PM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,738,588!
Starting to revise my thesis for further use and there are some parts that I’m struggling to understand myself … whoops
September 10, 2024 at 12:44 AM
Starting to revise my thesis for further use and there are some parts that I’m struggling to understand myself … whoops
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Tell the maga gamers in your life to get ready for $5000 video cards
Trump says Taiwan should pay the US for its defence as ‘it doesn’t give us anything’
Trump’s interview with Bloomberg will call into question Washington’s support for the island democracy should he win back the White House
www.theguardian.com
July 17, 2024 at 11:06 AM
Tell the maga gamers in your life to get ready for $5000 video cards
Correction: 4/7 in previous thread. Not Gad’s father, but Eliasaph’s father. I just used tribe names instead of the leader’s name for simplicity sake of identifying the people.
June 4, 2024 at 8:04 PM
Correction: 4/7 in previous thread. Not Gad’s father, but Eliasaph’s father. I just used tribe names instead of the leader’s name for simplicity sake of identifying the people.
At the beginning of במדבר, Moshe and Aaron take a census and appoint heads of tribes.
According to the grouping of tribes into camps (ch 2), there is seems to be a misordering in ch 1. (Or perhaps vice versa, but I’m inclined to the former)
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According to the grouping of tribes into camps (ch 2), there is seems to be a misordering in ch 1. (Or perhaps vice versa, but I’m inclined to the former)
/1
June 4, 2024 at 7:46 PM
At the beginning of במדבר, Moshe and Aaron take a census and appoint heads of tribes.
According to the grouping of tribes into camps (ch 2), there is seems to be a misordering in ch 1. (Or perhaps vice versa, but I’m inclined to the former)
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According to the grouping of tribes into camps (ch 2), there is seems to be a misordering in ch 1. (Or perhaps vice versa, but I’m inclined to the former)
/1
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Book giveaway!
Wrestling with Job, by Bill & Will Kynes.
It's a great read.
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Reskeet
If you have institutional access, check out my review: dx.doi.org/10.1111/rsr....
A winner will be selected Feb 23.
Wrestling with Job, by Bill & Will Kynes.
It's a great read.
How to enter?
Live in North America
Like the post
Reskeet
If you have institutional access, check out my review: dx.doi.org/10.1111/rsr....
A winner will be selected Feb 23.
February 16, 2024 at 5:10 PM
Book giveaway!
Wrestling with Job, by Bill & Will Kynes.
It's a great read.
How to enter?
Live in North America
Like the post
Reskeet
If you have institutional access, check out my review: dx.doi.org/10.1111/rsr....
A winner will be selected Feb 23.
Wrestling with Job, by Bill & Will Kynes.
It's a great read.
How to enter?
Live in North America
Like the post
Reskeet
If you have institutional access, check out my review: dx.doi.org/10.1111/rsr....
A winner will be selected Feb 23.
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Torah portion Va'era (וָאֵרָא) tells of Aaron's rod turning into a serpent and the first seven plagues of Egypt: here are the plagues of blood, frogs, and lice.
BL Add 27210; the 'Golden Haggadah'; 14th c; Spain, N. E.; ff. 11r-11v
BL Add 27210; the 'Golden Haggadah'; 14th c; Spain, N. E.; ff. 11r-11v
January 8, 2024 at 12:32 PM
Torah portion Va'era (וָאֵרָא) tells of Aaron's rod turning into a serpent and the first seven plagues of Egypt: here are the plagues of blood, frogs, and lice.
BL Add 27210; the 'Golden Haggadah'; 14th c; Spain, N. E.; ff. 11r-11v
BL Add 27210; the 'Golden Haggadah'; 14th c; Spain, N. E.; ff. 11r-11v
Anybody know of a NT Gospels reading schedule akin to the Torah parashah rotations?
January 1, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Anybody know of a NT Gospels reading schedule akin to the Torah parashah rotations?
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Joseph Ibn Hayyim marks the beginning of Torah portion Vayigash (וַיִּגַּשׁ), in which Joseph reveals his identity to his brothers, with this creature.
#parashahpictures
Bodleian Library; MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; 1476 CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.32r
#parashahpictures
Bodleian Library; MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; 1476 CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.32r
December 20, 2023 at 5:20 PM
Joseph Ibn Hayyim marks the beginning of Torah portion Vayigash (וַיִּגַּשׁ), in which Joseph reveals his identity to his brothers, with this creature.
#parashahpictures
Bodleian Library; MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; 1476 CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.32r
#parashahpictures
Bodleian Library; MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; 1476 CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.32r
Adi Ophir's "In the Beginning was the State: Divine Violence in the Hebrew Bible" is insightful so far. He seeks to reconstruct political aspects of divine rule that reveals 3 theocratic formations. He isn't a bib scholar per se, but proves capable of doing it, tho it isn't easy reading!
December 19, 2023 at 8:30 PM
Adi Ophir's "In the Beginning was the State: Divine Violence in the Hebrew Bible" is insightful so far. He seeks to reconstruct political aspects of divine rule that reveals 3 theocratic formations. He isn't a bib scholar per se, but proves capable of doing it, tho it isn't easy reading!
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Joseph Ibn Hayyim marks the beginning of Torah portion Mikeitz (מִקֵּץ) with this dog's head.
Bodleian Library; MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; 1476 CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.29v
Bodleian Library; MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; 1476 CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.29v
December 12, 2023 at 5:28 PM
Joseph Ibn Hayyim marks the beginning of Torah portion Mikeitz (מִקֵּץ) with this dog's head.
Bodleian Library; MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; 1476 CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.29v
Bodleian Library; MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; 1476 CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.29v
Can confirm Shohei Ohtani is not in the library at Regent College.
December 8, 2023 at 11:53 PM
Can confirm Shohei Ohtani is not in the library at Regent College.
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Joseph Ibn Hayyim marks the beginning of Torah portion Vayishlach (וַיִּשְׁלַח) with this creature spouting golden flames.
Bodleian Library, MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; 1476 CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.24v
Bodleian Library, MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; 1476 CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.24v
November 28, 2023 at 6:50 PM
Joseph Ibn Hayyim marks the beginning of Torah portion Vayishlach (וַיִּשְׁלַח) with this creature spouting golden flames.
Bodleian Library, MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; 1476 CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.24v
Bodleian Library, MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; 1476 CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.24v
It is a good day for studying Biblical Hebrew word order to better understand preposing in narrative.
Moshavi seems accessible and helpful, though Holmstedt is convincing. I wish I had time to turn this ThM thesis into a full-fledged dissertation .... but maybe that's asking for punishment
Moshavi seems accessible and helpful, though Holmstedt is convincing. I wish I had time to turn this ThM thesis into a full-fledged dissertation .... but maybe that's asking for punishment
November 24, 2023 at 5:02 PM
It is a good day for studying Biblical Hebrew word order to better understand preposing in narrative.
Moshavi seems accessible and helpful, though Holmstedt is convincing. I wish I had time to turn this ThM thesis into a full-fledged dissertation .... but maybe that's asking for punishment
Moshavi seems accessible and helpful, though Holmstedt is convincing. I wish I had time to turn this ThM thesis into a full-fledged dissertation .... but maybe that's asking for punishment
Jacob's ladder is this week's parashah isn't the first structure of this sort in Genesis (28:10-22).
Another similar structure is in the account of Babel (11:1-9).
Another similar structure is in the account of Babel (11:1-9).
November 21, 2023 at 5:58 PM
Jacob's ladder is this week's parashah isn't the first structure of this sort in Genesis (28:10-22).
Another similar structure is in the account of Babel (11:1-9).
Another similar structure is in the account of Babel (11:1-9).
Shimon Bar-Efrat's rubric for three stratum of biblical narrative is helpful. I am adapting it to give special attention to 1) narrative syntax, 2) narrative world, and 3) narrative import. Each stratum bleeds into the next, making the act of reading necessarily iterative and collative.
November 20, 2023 at 5:39 PM
Shimon Bar-Efrat's rubric for three stratum of biblical narrative is helpful. I am adapting it to give special attention to 1) narrative syntax, 2) narrative world, and 3) narrative import. Each stratum bleeds into the next, making the act of reading necessarily iterative and collative.
Joshua Tree mood suits the last few days and this afternoon while marking assignments.
Down but trudging forward.
Down but trudging forward.
November 18, 2023 at 9:27 PM
Joshua Tree mood suits the last few days and this afternoon while marking assignments.
Down but trudging forward.
Down but trudging forward.
"Biblical narrative, for all its laconic nature, evinces an extraordinary degree of artistic sophistication, in many cases playing with the permutations of a literary code largely unfamiliar to us, and it is well worth the trouble to try to recover whatever we can of that code." Robert Alter, ABN
November 8, 2023 at 7:13 PM
"Biblical narrative, for all its laconic nature, evinces an extraordinary degree of artistic sophistication, in many cases playing with the permutations of a literary code largely unfamiliar to us, and it is well worth the trouble to try to recover whatever we can of that code." Robert Alter, ABN
הודו ליה כי טוב כי לעולם חסדו
תהלים 136:1
תהלים 136:1
November 6, 2023 at 5:44 PM
הודו ליה כי טוב כי לעולם חסדו
תהלים 136:1
תהלים 136:1
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In the Torah portion Vayeira (וַיֵּרָא) Abraham shows hospitality to the three angels with Sarah watching on, as depicted here in the 'Golden Haggadah'.
BL Add 27210; the 'Golden Haggadah'; 14th century; Spain, N. E; f.3r
BL Add 27210; the 'Golden Haggadah'; 14th century; Spain, N. E; f.3r
November 3, 2023 at 10:30 AM
In the Torah portion Vayeira (וַיֵּרָא) Abraham shows hospitality to the three angels with Sarah watching on, as depicted here in the 'Golden Haggadah'.
BL Add 27210; the 'Golden Haggadah'; 14th century; Spain, N. E; f.3r
BL Add 27210; the 'Golden Haggadah'; 14th century; Spain, N. E; f.3r
New PB: ~ 6500 words typed in a day, but not on my thesis. Finalizing a report on the place of religion in the geopolitics of the Holy Land thanks to a generous donor funding my travel there this summer. Everything since October 7 has been mind-spinning and numbing. Glad to get my thoughts on paper.
November 4, 2023 at 6:38 AM
New PB: ~ 6500 words typed in a day, but not on my thesis. Finalizing a report on the place of religion in the geopolitics of the Holy Land thanks to a generous donor funding my travel there this summer. Everything since October 7 has been mind-spinning and numbing. Glad to get my thoughts on paper.
Gen 2:15 God takes and places האדם in the Garden of Eden. He didn't originate in the garden, nor was he made from it.
Gen 3:23 God sends האדם from the Garden of Eden to work the ground, "[from] which he was taken from there" (לֻקַּח מִשָׁם).
Because of sin, privileged location given at the start is lost
Gen 3:23 God sends האדם from the Garden of Eden to work the ground, "[from] which he was taken from there" (לֻקַּח מִשָׁם).
Because of sin, privileged location given at the start is lost
October 27, 2023 at 11:36 PM
Gen 2:15 God takes and places האדם in the Garden of Eden. He didn't originate in the garden, nor was he made from it.
Gen 3:23 God sends האדם from the Garden of Eden to work the ground, "[from] which he was taken from there" (לֻקַּח מִשָׁם).
Because of sin, privileged location given at the start is lost
Gen 3:23 God sends האדם from the Garden of Eden to work the ground, "[from] which he was taken from there" (לֻקַּח מִשָׁם).
Because of sin, privileged location given at the start is lost
"...the tortuous route to enlightenment is a measure of the extent to which the Bible goes out of its way to complicate ours: to produce curiosity, wonder, even skepticism about God's disposition in order to trap us into faith on the backswing..."
October 27, 2023 at 10:28 PM
"...the tortuous route to enlightenment is a measure of the extent to which the Bible goes out of its way to complicate ours: to produce curiosity, wonder, even skepticism about God's disposition in order to trap us into faith on the backswing..."