... upon a peak in Darien." I too, in discovering Keats for the first time in Hebrew--both familiar and at once infused with something entirely new--felt like an astronomer who has just discovered a new ... heart the poems that Borges was quoting, but all of a sudden, I was discovering them all over again!As I read on in the Hebrew translation of Borges' lectures, I came upon many familiar English poems ...

... :אונלי גוד קן ג''ודג ם, אונלי גוד כן ג''ודג ם'wnly gwd qn g"wdg m, 'wnly gwd kn g"wdg mNow, those of you who read Hebrew, stop scratching your heads for a moment and take a closer look at the English transliteration.Still not seeing it?Let me add in some vowels for you:אונלי גוד קן ג''ודג ם, אונלי גוד כן ג''ודג ם'only god qan judg m, 'only god kan judg mYes. ...

... intending to "remove the necessity of creating new gloss lists when one wants to have students read different sections of the OT" (xiii). RHB provides necessary help to students to become more familiar with the Hebrew and Aramaic Texts; as well as improving (their) reading proficiency respectively. The Bible includes the authors' prefaces, a ...

Over on the Koinonia blog, John Walton has a series of posts called Hebrew Corner—commentary and discussion about interesting bits of the Biblical Hebrew language. It's good reading, even if you've never studied Hebrew. And so the predictable question I've got for you is: can you read a Biblical language? Have you ever studied ancient Hebrew [...]

... .Here's why: Like Roman numerals, Hebrew letters are also numbers. And unlike in English, Hebrew is read from left to right. So, take a look at the chart and notice there is no w. If you wanted to write www.whatever etc. in Hebrew, theoretically, you would use the v. Scroll way down to the numbers. You'll see that if you wrote vvv, you wrote the equivalent of--666. ...

... short book containing lectures that Barth delivered in the framework of the Apostle's Creed. I'd like to read this or his "Evangelical Theology" before beginning to read his massive "Church Dogmatics." There's also a Barth reader published by Fortress Press in the "Making of Modern ... ministry, pastoring, etc.   Emmanual Tov, "Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible." THE book on the text of ...