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How to Use Vocabulary to Chart the Evolution of Ancient Hebrew—and Other Linguistic Questions

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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, 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.)

The last post in this series looked at how Biblical Hebrew Vocabulary by Conceptual Categories helps make sense of closely related vocabulary in Biblical Hebrew, using the example of words for various types of honey. However, the slight differences between closely related words in the Bible are not only related to their meaning. In this post, we will look at the possible evolution of Biblical Hebrew vocabulary over time.

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BrillDAG Officially Released on Logos

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Image credit: Tavis Bohlinger

Yes, finally, here it is. The long-anticipated official release of BrillDAG on Logos. If you didn’t get it during the pre-publication sale, now’s your chance to buy this incredible resource and start using it today.

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BrillDAG: Last Chance to Pre-Order

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A few months ago we announced that BrillDAG was finally going to be available on Logos. At that time, we wanted to make you aware of the fact that you could pre-order this incredible resource at a discounted price. Well, due to demand, the pre-order period is coming to a close in order to release BrillDAG in all its brilliance as part of the Logos Digital Library.

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Case Frame Analysis for Dummies

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By Brent Niedergall | Youth Pastor, Catawba Springs Christian Church

I. Introduction

Sermon preparation is best performed behind a towering stack of commentaries and lexicons (physical or virtual) where one can grapple with diverging views on theology, interpretation, and the meaning of words. Understanding how a word is used in a passage is a fundamental of exegesis. And the highest authority you can appeal to in New Testament study is BDAG. When the commentators are in disunity, you can always flip through BDAG and hope it cites the passage you’re studying. There you’ll find column after column of carefully arranged entries filled with definitions, glosses, explanations, and citations as supporting evidence. The data all looks rather impressive, but as the Bible student eventually comes to realize, selecting the correct sense is a balance of art and science. There are options. But what if there was a lexicon that required less art and more science? 

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Inside These Halls: Christopher B. Hays on ANE, Fuller, and Digital Learning

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Christopher B. Hays (front and center) living what he teaches by leading a recent trip to the Qumran caves.

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*Editor’s note: This is the second of two Fuller Seminary interviews conducted by Ryan Lytton (the first interview was with Amos Yong). He recently had the opportunity to interview Christopher B. Hays, who is the D. Wilson Moore Associate Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Chair of the Old Testament Department at Fuller Theological Seminary in California.

In this interview, Hays discusses the importance of studying the ANE, current happenings at Fuller (the move from Pasadena to Pomona), and career advice for potential future academics. [Read more…]

Parchments found at new Dead Sea Scrolls Cave

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A New Cave, an Old Controversy: Dramatic New Discovery in Israel will Re-Ignite Debates

The last Dead Sea Scrolls cave, linked to the ruins on the marl shelf at the mouth of Wadi Qumran, was discovered in 1956, bringing the total number of caves to eleven — eleven caves containing the famous Dead Sea Scrolls, ceramic jars, and a number of other artifacts. [Read more…]