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A new annual for Geniza studies 5 Oct 2006 | 07:03 am
The first volume of a new annual (well, new to me...), called Ginzei Qedem, has appeared last year. Its aim is to publish hitherto unpublished texts from the Geniza as well as research articles in var...
Rosh Ha-Shana 24 Sep 2006 | 08:52 am
When I was a teenager, I spent some years in Holland, together with my family. I don’t come from a religious family, but I used to go to the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam, to feel a bit of “yidish...
My PhD dissertation 21 Sep 2006 | 06:28 am
Some months ago I promised that I will dedicate a special post to my dissertation, and here it is. The subject of my PhD dissertation is the Greek and Latin loanwords in the Mishna. The most importan...
New Leshonenu issue 6 Sep 2006 | 06:22 pm
On the last minute, and as I feared, my military service – planned for next week – was cancelled. It seems my unit has to “rearrange” itself after the war. Well, maybe they should have done that two m...
Biblical Studies Carnival VIII 2 Aug 2006 | 09:10 am
Written by Kevin P. Edgecomb, in his Biblicalia. This is a must read! Really good work, Kevin (and thanks!)
In the mail 27 Jul 2006 | 10:20 am
Call for active military duty. Actually this call was scheduled shortly before the current war. They asked me if I could come for a week in September and I agreed. But it has been a couple of years s...
A note about the pronunciation of the shwa 18 Jul 2006 | 02:22 am
There's a lot of hoo-ha going around in Israel these days, but life must go on... I'm now reading a book which describes the language of a 12th century manuscript, containing the commentary of the Ra...
The Descenders to the Chariot 7 Jul 2006 | 12:14 am
Whatever your political opinion, it is difficult not to be impressed by these massive vehicles, called Merkava mark 4, some of them are now entering the Gaza Strip. I wonder if the name-givers were at...
Joint Conference... 23 May 2006 | 10:36 pm
... of the five Hebrew Language Departments in Israel (Haifa, Tel Aviv, Bar Ilan, Ben-Gurion and the Hebrew University) and the Academy for the Hebrew Language is about to take place on June 12th. Th...
A new scientific edition of the Samaritan Liturgy 10 May 2006 | 01:37 pm
Prof. Moshe Florentin from Tel-Aviv University (who is also my PhD supervisor) is preparing a scientific edition of the Samaritan Liturgy. The Samaritan Liturgy consists of many poems, some of them da...
