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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Ola Wikander retweeted
My slides from the ongoing "Semitic Sibilants" conference! :
academia.edu/180365898/Armie…
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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
Ola Wikander retweeted
homecoming servant--
pretending the persimmon
is sweet
薮入が柿の渋さをかくしけり
yabuiri ga kaki no shibusa wo kakushi keri
First Month, 16th Day, servants were allowed to return to their native villages. The fruit is astringent, but the joyful child hides this fact.
Ola Wikander retweeted
My *impression* of how “retroflexes” are typically articulated in different parts of the Indian subcontinent.
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𝑱𝙪𝒔𝙩 𝙥𝒖𝙗𝒍𝙞𝒔𝙝𝒆𝙙! The 1st of 6 volumes:
𝐷𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐼𝑛𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐴𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑁𝑜𝑟𝑡ℎ 𝐴𝑟𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑎
Open Access at this link: tinyurl.com/5n7ht4nj.
Nearly 2000 words, with citations and etymological commentary. More soon!
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Ugaritic word of the day:
trẓẓ ("run [noun], running")
(cf. the Hebrew verb רוץ, Akkadian râṣum ["to run to help"], etc.)
ALT An AppleScript program, that finally runs.
Ola Wikander retweeted
New for 2026! Bendal's Reading Linear B | Provides readers with the necessary background to begin reading and analysing Linear B documents for themselves.
Find out more: ☑️ cup.org/4z38Lhb
#classicstwitter
ALT Cover image of the book titled 'Reading Linear B', by Lisa Maria Bendall.
Ola Wikander retweeted
Den här texten känns återigen relevant att dela ut:
expressen.se/kultur/kulturde…
Ola Wikander retweeted
Happy to announce I built a Greek/English reader site with all the surviving plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, & Aristophanes.
Multiple translations for each play; click to parse & define for any Greek word; full Greek & English search.
greekdrama.johnhboyer.com
Ola Wikander retweeted
#New on #OCIANA - A desperate and emotional #Safaitic plea by a man for his sick wife. He calls upon the goddess Allāt to give life (ʾḥy) back to his wife (mrʾt-h) who is sick (sqmt) and emaciated (ḫsft), and begs her for deliverance (ḫlṣt)
Find more: ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/…
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Ugaritic word of the day:
ġnṯ ("to gulp down, to swallow").
ALT Yours truly, in three-piece suit, in a restaurant, seen from a 3/4-perspective, drinking from a glass.
Ola Wikander retweeted
Fenugreek implies the existence of Fenuroman. And, if we want to feel a bit cladistic, Fenuphrygian. And, for the literarily minded, Fenutrojan.
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Elamite word of the day:
Sunki-k ("I, the king").
Elamite is one of the very few languages that inflect nouns for person - here, the word sunki ("king") is in the locutive, indicating identity with the first person.
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Ugaritic word of the day:
Ql ("voice"). Cf. Hebrew qôl (etc. etc.).
ALT The cover of Haruo Kubozono (ed.), Handbook of Japanese Phonetics and Phonology.
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Ugaritic word of the day:
ảṯr ("behind, after").
ALT Sunlight blazing through the trees and bushes, behind a road.
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Stele depicting Adad standing on a bull, dated to the reign of Tiglath-pilesar III, c. 744 - 727 BC, Arslan Taş, Syria (ancient Hadatu)
Ola Wikander retweeted
Posted a new article arguing that Q 111 and related early surahs were directed at rebutting polytheistic ritual by citing Allah's eschatological judgment, and that the ritual conflict at issue had centered on securing salvation from drought and famine. academia.edu/144320714/Ab%C5…
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Here is my new article about the early quranic corpus, making intensive use of Safaitic and Ugaritic. It's very long, but the central point is that early quranic soteriology centered on seasonal providence, i.e. winds with rain, under astral direction. academia.edu/128218383/The_L…
