A Modern Grammar for Biblical Hebrew is a deductive introductory Hebrew grammar by Duane Garrett and Jason DeRouchie. While the density of its content and of its presentation could be a little overwhelming, its discussion of text-level syntax in the later chapters makes it very desirable.
Bite-Sized Exegesis: Proverbs 10:11
Commentary on Proverbs 10:11 – “A fountain of life is the mouth of the righteous one, but the mouth of wicked people conceals violence.
Book Review – Biblical Criticism: A Guide for the Perplexed, by Eryl W. Davies
Biblical Criticism: A Guide for the Perplexed, by Eryl W. Davies, is an introduction to four of the most prominent and representative post-modernist hermeneutical methods used in biblical studies.
Bite-Sized Exegesis: Proverbs 10:10
Text קֺרֵץ עַיִן יִתֵּן עַצָּבֶת וֶאֱוִיל שְׂפָתַיִם יִלָּבֵט׃
Bite-Sized Exegesis: Proverbs 10:9
Text הוֺלֵךְ בַּתֺּם יֵלֶךְ בֶּטַח וּמְעַקֵשׁ דְּרָכָיו יְוָּדֵעַ׃
Bite-Sized Exegesis: Proverbs 10:8
Text חֲכַם־לֵב יִקַּח מִצְוֺת וֶאֱוִיל שְׂפָתַיִם יִלָּבֵט׃
Reading: Jesus of Nazareth by Pope Benedict XVI
Some initial thoughts about the first volume of Joseph Ratzinger’s trilogy, Jesus of Nazareth.
Bite-Sized Exegesis: Proverbs 10:7
Text זֵכֶר צַדִּיק לִבְרָכָה וְשֵׁם רְשָׁעִים יִרְקָב׃
Is Neo-Source-Criticism A Thing?
Is neo-source-criticism a thing? Is it actually possible that so many recent PhD candidates and recipients don’t realize that source-criticism is dead, buried, and mostly decomposed? Source-criticism as a method has proven a completely unsatisfactory way to do diachronic study since at least the 1970s because of what it assumes about the texts under consideration and about what may be discerned with certainty from certain kinds of features of those texts.
Bite-Sized Exegesis: Proverbs 10:6
Text בְּרָכוֺת לְרֺאשׁ צַדִּיק וּפִי רְשָׁעִים יְכַסֶּה חָמָס׃
Bite-Sized Exegesis 