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Benjamin Suchard
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Hebrew Bible, Biblical Hebrew, Aramaic, Comparative Semitics. Blog: bnuyaminim.wordpress.com
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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 2d
This chapter has now been out for more than six months and thus magically becomes #OpenAccess:
Sound Change in the Hebrew Reading Tradition
This contribution to Language Change in Epic Greek and Other Poetic Traditions investigates for Biblical Hebrew "to what degree this corpus retained its phonological independence from the vernacular f...
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Isabel Köster @iotasubscript.bsky.social · 45m
Oh, and, happy 2-year anniversary to the best email I've ever gotten from a bookseller as part of a rather complex effort to get a copy of Francesca Stavrakopoulou's "God: An Anatomy"
Screen grab reading: This refund is for the following item(s): Item: God Quantity: 1 ASIN: 1509867376 Reason for refund: Item not received
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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 1h
You can read about some of Halbertsma's work here:
The 2022 survey at Khirbet al-Mudayna al-‘Aliya, Jordan - The Palestine Exploration Fund
Diederik J. H. Halbertsma, University of Liverpool, Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egpytology. In May 2022 we conducted a survey season at the archaeological site of Khirbet al-Mudayna al-‘Al...
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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 1h
Attended today's @nino-leiden.bsky.social lecture on Iron Age I Moab by Diederik Halbertsma. One of the many takeaways for me: Wadi Mujib, the biblical Arnon, looks *really* dramatic!
A bearded, white man in a black hat, black shirt, and khaki pants holds a rod with a photogrammetry device at the end, standing in front of a rocky desert landscape. The hills stretch to the horizon and are bisected by a deep, deep gorge, with water and some plant life visible at the bottom.
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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 7h
Greetings fellow citron
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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 8h
3 Signs You Might Be A Pharisee:

1. You have very strong opinions on the ritual purity implications of gathering grapes vs gathering olives

2. You've got some sick burns to use on the High Priest if he complains that people like you better than him

3. You're classmates with time-traveling Moses
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Arthur Urbano @arturoviaggia.bsky.social · 1d
Using this video in class in my Jewish-Christian relations course tomorrow to show students how Christian thinking has made the Pharisees and Judaism by extension coterminous with sin and hypocrisy.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ACb...
Are You a Pharisee?
YouTube video by Ascension Presents
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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 9h
Before Classical Arabic even: extremely common for writers of Safaitic inscriptions to say they are ḏ ʾl 'of the lineage of...'.
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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 10h
Think that's one theory. Might be better to connect it with 'awwal- 'first' and maybe Akkadian awīl- 'man, citizen'.
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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 13h
Yes, ʔāl 'the lineage of'.
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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 13h
Al-Jallad always with A for this reason
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Zev זאב @zevsamm.bsky.social · 21h
Shibboleth
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d
What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?
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Marijn van Putten @phdnix.bsky.social · 23h
A really interesting observation of Ibn Qutaybah (d. 276/889) in his ʾadab al-kātib. Commenting on why balā, matā and ʾannā are spelled with yāʾ he said: "because the ʾimālah (i.e. balē, matē, ʾannē) for these is better and more eloquent than tafḫīm (balā, matā, ʾannā)"
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Anís del moro @anisdelmoro.bsky.social · 1d
B. Herin and E. Al-Wer, A Grammar of Jordanian Arabic, 2025 (Open Access).
www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
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Regula M. Zwahlen @remaz.bsky.social · 1d
PhD Scholarship in Theology, Religious Studies or Slavic Studies at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of KU Leuven: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
PhD Scholarship in Theology, Religious Studies or Slavic Studies
PhD History Catholic Ecumenism
www.kuleuven.be
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Ivo Wolsing 🟥 @ivowolsing.bsky.social · 1d
Me submitting a paper to an editor vs. that same paper coming back to haunt me after a couple months
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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 1d
Nice!
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Theo Nash @theonash.bsky.social · 18d
'sit' is, I believe, the only English word to preserve all of its original IE ablaut grades:

0: nest
e: set
long e: seat
o: sat
long o: soot
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Yoïn van Spijk @yvanspijk.bsky.social · 18d
Historically, the word 'nest' consists of two parts.

The part 'ne-' is related to 'nether', while '-st' is related to 'sit'.

The distant ancestor of 'nest' meant "place to sit down".

'Nest' is also related to Spanish 'nido' and its Romance relatives.

Click my new graphic to learn more:
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Joshua Alfaro @joshuaalfaro.bsky.social · 2d
Hybrid meeting: Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to Biblical Hebrew, 7 November 2025, 9:30–17:00 (CET), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam/online. Register here: networkinstitute.org/2025/10/03/e...
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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 2d
If you're into Greek, there's a lot of great stuff there! And thanks!
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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 2d
Thank you very much!
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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 2d
The preferred nomenclature is "skeet"
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VIEWS project @viewsproject.bsky.social · 2d
Peak Halloween Classicist accessory!

(Thank you Poundland 😱)
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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 2d
This chapter has now been out for more than six months and thus magically becomes #OpenAccess:
Sound Change in the Hebrew Reading Tradition
This contribution to Language Change in Epic Greek and Other Poetic Traditions investigates for Biblical Hebrew "to what degree this corpus retained its phonological independence from the vernacular f...
works.hcommons.org
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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 2d
Like Hades in Greek, and maybe Sheol in Hebrew.
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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 2d
These guys (Khirbet Kerak Ware people, Early Bronze III) = Cainite sons of Lamech
Various attempts have been made to account for the movement of Kura– Araxes communities – or parts of them – into the Levant. Long thought to be pastoral nomads or itinerant potters, new studies on the economy of the homeland sites has established the sedentary, agricultural base of most Kura–Araxes communities. Current studies therefore focus on the ability of Kura–Araxes networks to transmit technological innovations or precious metals from the northern peripheries toward urbanized centers, while maintaining an alternate way of life in autonomous communities. A promising angle seems to be the inverse relation between KKW-related settlement and strong urbanizing paradigms: Kura–Araxes commu- nities appear in, or move into, southeast Anatolia and the Amuq region in the wake of Uruk withdrawal, while in the Levant they avoid the flourishing Byblos enclave while exploiting weakened Jordan Valley sites. And although the northern connection with metalliferous and vine-growing regions has attracted explanations related to metal- and wine-making, the principal technological advantage that can be identified on the ground relates to ceramic crafts and to the traction complex: oxen, carts and probably plows. In other words, mobile communities with a Kura–Araxes cultural orientation moved in where opportunity arose, and survived as autonomous communities by fulfilling important functions, for example, as cattle drivers, and by showcasing an exotic cultural assemblage in an age when social articulation began to reassert itself following the decline of EB II uniformitarian propensities.
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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 3d
How does this relate to the Rishis?
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