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My NEW BOOK on the language ideology of the medieval Hebrew and Arabic grammarians is out! It is open-access so you can DOWNLOAD FREE here: bit.ly/hebrewgrammarians

Sometimes you *can* judge a book by its cover. If you look closely, the broad findings and conclusions of my new book (openbookpublishers.com/books…) are actually all visible on the graphic of the cover:

My new open access book on the relationship between the various reading traditions of Biblical Hebrew is now out ... DOWNLOAD FREE HERE: openbookpublishers.com/books…

What is the plural of Ph.D.?

If Aragorn spoke Biblical Hebrew ...

Coming soon...

Watching an interview with the NBA player Steph Curry, I noticed a Hebrew tattoo on his arm At first glance, I couldn't figure out why he was so interested in variants in the biblical reading tradition incongruent with the consonantal text.. Then I realised it just says 'Curry'

I finally made a somewhat decent graphic to depict what an early bifolio of Origen’s Hexapla might have looked like (based on later copies we have):

Many who say things like... ‘you can't end a sentence with a preposition’ OR ‘I don't know, CAN you?’ (correcting can VS may) think they are saying something like... 2 + 2 = 4 (≠ 5) In reality, they are saying something more like... ‘forks should be set left of the plate’

Struggling with understanding an ancient text does not necessarily mean you don't understand the **language** as far as grammar and vocab go Struggling with an ancient text is often the result of being thousands of years and miles away from the world of the author's community

Advice to grad students: The earlier you start using a bibliography management software, especially one that lets you attach a PDF of an article to the source, the better. Years later, when you want to find an article you remember from grad school, you will be glad you did this

Does anyone know of any scholars, commentators, or grammarians before Rashi and Ibn Ezra who claimed that בְּרֵאשִׁית in Genesis 1.1 is a construct form and/or the head of a relative clause?

The use of the INFINITIVE ABSOLUTE in Biblical Hebrew is sometimes a bit like the use of an exclamation point "!" in the email patterns of some moderns. "I want to strengthen this sentence somehow but this is the only way that really seems like I can do it..."

Deut 32.10 states that God protected his people ‘LIKE THE APPLE OF HIS EYE’ (idiom for pupil = precious) In the Hebrew, the phrase is: כאישון עינו KE-'ISHON 'ENO ‘like the little man of his eye’ ... with the diminutive of איש 'ISH ‘man’, perhaps due to reflections like this:

This might be my favourite subtitle of any book in our field: 'A PRESENTATION OF PROBLEMS WITH SUGGESTIONS TO THEIR SOLUTION' Although it is almost 60 years old, there is still a lot of really helpful data in this book, especially for transcriptions.