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How to Deepen Your Hebrew Word Studies with Conceptual Categories: Or, How Sweet it is to Be Loved by Yah

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In 2017, David Pleins and I released a new resource designed for students of Biblical Hebrew: Biblical Hebrew Vocabulary by Conceptual Categories: A Student’s Guide to Nouns in the Old Testament (Zondervan, 2017), a user-friendly book from Zondervan that arranges Biblical Hebrew words and phrases into categories from water to warfare, from jars to genitalia. Since then, we’ve gotten positive reviews in several journals, including the Review of Biblical and Early Christian Studies, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Expository Times, Bulletin for Biblical Research, Review of Biblical Literature, and Hebrew Higher Education. This blog series at theLAB aims to show how this book can be useful for students of all levels. (Links to previous posts will be at the bottom of this page.)

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“These are the Words” (Deut 1:1): Why Another Book of Biblical Hebrew Vocabulary?

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In 2017, David Pleins and I released a new resource designed for students of Biblical Hebrew: Biblical Hebrew Vocabulary by Conceptual Categories: A Student’s Guide to Nouns in the Old Testament (Zondervan, 2017), a user-friendly book from Zondervan that arranges Biblical Hebrew words and phrases into categories from water to warfare, from jars to genitalia. Since then, we’ve gotten positive reviews in several journals, including the Review of Biblical and Early Christian Studies, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Expository Times, Bulletin for Biblical Research, Review of Biblical Literature, and Hebrew Higher Education. This blog series at theLAB aims to show how this book can be useful for students of all levels.

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Use Greek and Hebrew with Keyboard Selector

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We read and study the Bible in the original languages. That is a non-negotiable. Hebrew and Greek are as fundamental to the work of the scholar and preacher as a hammer in a toolkit. We use the original languages in our day-to-day workflow, including our digital resources. A new tool in Logos helps you do just that.

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25 Volumes of Deep Hebrew Bible

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Here’s an opportunity to expand your library that you won’t want to miss: a superb set of OT resources from T&T Clark/Bloomsbury, The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies: 2016 (25 vols.), is currently on pre-order. But why should you care about this collection?

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Recap of Durham’s New Song Conference on Hebrew Poetry

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Historic Ushaw College and Gardens, where over 80 laypeople, professors, poets, and priests gathered for the New Song Conference 24–25 June, 2019.

by Richard Rohlfing | Durham University

Most of us are aware that 35-40% of the Hebrew Bible can be described as poetic (not to speak of the poetic dimensions of Hebrew narrative). Yet, what theological difference does it make that poetry is the literary form for so much of the Bible? As Jews and Christians receive the Bible as communication that discloses God – what significance does the poetic medium play?

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Dueling Professors?

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An Example of Co-Teaching as a Means of Modeling Interdisciplinary Dialogue

Eric J. Tully | Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

One of the challenges in Christian higher education is navigating the tension between various fields of study. Christian institutions should have an inherent unity that comes from our faith and mission, but there is often a basic fragmentation that reflects the academic guilds in which we have been trained and now participate.

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Aramaic, ergo: How the TDOT Concludes

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This is how the Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament concludes: with its 16th volume, the Aramaic Dictionary. And the TDOT Aramaic Dictionary ships today for Logos Bible Software.

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Where Text and Canon Meet: An Interview with John Meade and Peter Gurry

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I put some questions recently to John Meade and Peter Gurry regarding their newly launched Text and Canon Institute, based at Phoenix Seminary. In this interview, they discuss the impetus behind the Institute, the significance of textual criticism for the church, and what we can expect from these two enterprising scholars in the future.

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Recap of BHLAP Workshop 2018, Jerusalem

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With a total of 14 talks from scholars throughout Israel and Canada, and over 60 people in attendance, this year’s Workshop on Biblical Hebrew Linguistics and Philology at the Hebrew University (HU) in Jerusalem was an all-around success. [Read more…]

Conference Alert: The 2nd Biblical Hebrew Linguistics and Philology Workshop, Hebrew University

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This is short notice, but if you can make it out to Jerusalem in less than two weeks’ time, you’ll enjoy the privilege of attending BHLaP 2018 (that acronym stands for Biblical Hebrew Linguistics and Philology).* The event, convened by Edit Doron and Robert Holmstedt, will feature 18 scholars from around Israel, and a half dozen from Canada.  [Read more…]