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Hebrew Bible, Biblical Hebrew, Aramaic, Comparative Semitics. Blog: bnuyaminim.wordpress.com

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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 1d

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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Anís del moro @anisdelmoro.bsky.social · 6h

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 · 17h

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

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Ivo Wolsing 🟥 @ivowolsing.bsky.social · 8h

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 · 16h

Nice!

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Theo Nash @theonash.bsky.social · 16d

'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

Yoïn van Spijk @yvanspijk.bsky.social · 16d

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 · 23h

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 · 1d

If you're into Greek, there's a lot of great stuff there! And thanks!

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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you very much!

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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 1d

The preferred nomenclature is "skeet"

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VIEWS project @viewsproject.bsky.social · 1d

Peak Halloween Classicist accessory!

(Thank you Poundland 😱)

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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 1d

This chapter has now been out for more than six months and thus magically becomes #OpenAccess:

Sound Change in the Hebrew Reading Tradition

works.hcommons.org

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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 1d

Like Hades in Greek, and maybe Sheol in Hebrew.

Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 1d

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.

Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 2d

How does this relate to the Rishis?

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Isabel Köster @iotasubscript.bsky.social · 2d

Overheard German productivity advice:
"So you're doing a PhD?"
-"Yes."
-"Have you started writing?"
-"No."
-"So what are you doing here?"
-"I like the atmosphere."
-"Atmosphere seems like a waste of time."

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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 2d

Linguists on words:

Marge Simpson holding a potato, captioned "I just think they're neat!"

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Mark Shockley @shjsat.bsky.social · 2d

Chat, what do we think about Versteegh's account of Arabic's verb stem types?

For stem X, I find "requestive and estimative" pretty ad hoc, and for modern dialects I think stems V, VII, and VIII can just be called "passive" sometimes ...

Versteegh, The Arabic Language, p.96
Table of types of verb stems ("measures") of Arabic

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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 2d

Full assimilation isn't so common, I think.

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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 2d

*nC > Cː 🤷‍♂️

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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 3d

Uh oh

Bluesky notification: Reviewer #2 followed you

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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 3d

Met een draagbaar maak je iemand draagbaar

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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 3d

This council could have been an ostracon

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Frédérique Rey @frdrqrey.bsky.social · 15d

6 years POSTOC in Biblical Studies - Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d) at Humboldt University Berlin

More details here:
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Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d) auf dem Gebiet der Biblischen Theologie max. befristet für 6 Jahre gem. WissZeitVG - E 13 TV-L

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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 3d

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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 4d

Learning to say 'two (f.)' in Levantine Arabic, or, as I like to call it,

Illustrated poster for Hergé, "The Adventures of Tintin"