I'm reading a powerful book called Night by Elie Wiesel. No doubt many of you have read this and/or some other award winning book or play by Wiesel. Though the content is well worth commenting on, I was very intrigued at Wiesel's search for words to describe the hellish darkness he faced and saw in… Continue reading New Event, New Words, New Genre
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Hebrew Grammar, Linguistics, and Justification
What do Hebrew grammar, linguistics, and justification have to do with one another? Quite a bit, if you ask me (us). In An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax, Bruce Waltke and M. O' Conner give us some implicit clues. In their discussion of a certain verb (the Piel stem, to be precise), they note a… Continue reading Hebrew Grammar, Linguistics, and Justification