Scholar of ancient languages, Reader in OT/HB Studies (Lund), August prize-nominated author. Hebraist, Ugaritologist, Semitist, moonlighting in Indo-European.
Lund University
Joined November 2013
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Updated list of my books, so far (thread)!
First:
Unburning Fame: Horses, Dragon, Beings of Smoke, and Other Indo-European Motifs in Ugarit and the Hebrew Bible (2017)
and
Drought, Death, and the Sun in Ugarit and Ancient Israel: A Philological and Comparative Study (2014)
Ugaritic word of the day.
špš (/šapšu/), "sun".
Also the name of the Ugaritic solar goddess, on whom I wrote my doctoral dissertation (or, well, it was one major focus of it), "Drought, Death, and the Sun in Ugarit and Ancient Israel".
ALT Sun reflected in window of the Lund University Library, which is covered in ivy.
The book, btw, is nowadays freely downloadable. Take a gander:
lucris.lub.lu.se/ws/portalfi…
And btw, since I seem to be (somewhat unexpectedly) caught in a "WELL AI IS GOOD FOR SCHOLARSHIP" debate, let me be clear:
I do use AI on occasion, as people do. But for scholarship and writing my books and articles? Not on your life.
Ola Wikander retweeted
My slides from the ongoing "Semitic Sibilants" conference! :
academia.edu/180365898/Armie…
This shit has to stop. AI risks killing all attempts at meritocracy. People will get chaired professorships based on slop they never even wrote.
God, I love AppleScript. Such a cool language. Sure, a little clunky in certain ways (especially when interfacing with MS Word, the AppleScript commands of which seem to be created by a Martian), but generally, it's freaking awesome.
Also, I've just started learning AppleScriptObjC, the Cocoa/Objective C interface/framework for AppleScript, which expands the abilities of the language almost infinitely. Such cool stuff.
Pausing the debugging of this AppleScript program for tonight. My brain hurts.
But still, productive day: conferencing, hearing many cool talks, and giving a hopefully cool one myself, and writing the basic part of said program. Onwards and upwards!
My slides from the ongoing "Semitic Sibilants" conference! :
academia.edu/180365898/Armie…
Ola Wikander retweeted
Kouchean Tocharian (Tocharian B) word of the day:
Kärsanalle ("that should be known,, [thing] to be known, that should be understood").
ALT Neo-Valentinian Ꜥankh-cross necklace, with templarist cross pattée in red at the ce
Made myself a li'l PP presentation for tomorrow's Semitic sibilants conference.
Night workers work at night!
Kouchean Tocharian (Tocharian B) word of the day:
Kärsanalle ("that should be known,, [thing] to be known, that should be understood").
ALT Neo-Valentinian Ꜥankh-cross necklace, with templarist cross pattée in red at the ce
