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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 · 5d

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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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 16h

Cool Levantine #Arabic etymology: maṣāri 'money', originally plural of maṣri 'Egyptian [coin].

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Egas Moniz Bandeira ᠡᡤᠠᠰ ᠮᠣᠨᠢᠰ ᠪᠠᠨᡩ᠋ᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠ @egasmb.bsky.social · 18h

Mongolian has some wild Eurasian etymologies! 🥰 My favourite one is nom ᠨᠣᠮ ('book'), from Greek νόμος, via Sogdian and Old Uyghur. The semantic shift 'custom, law' > 'scripture' > 'book' is lovely.
Btw nomos also has a Syriac > Arabic result, nāmōsā ܢܳܡܘܿܣܳܐ > nāmūs ناموس 😀
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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 1d

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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 1d

Waarschijnlijk is dit juist de pre-existente uitgangstoestand, voor de eerste scheppingsdaad. Zoals de Griekse Chaos.

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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 1d

Heel mooi!

Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 1d

Unrelated. In Arabic it means "imposing", I think, but not in the awe-inspiring sense AFAIK.

Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 1d

"We look forward to living and labouring side by side with you for many years to come in what is now your home as well as ours," I concluded my welcoming speech.

"... *kʷid?" the young man at the head of the armed band replied.

Tweet: Write a prehistoric-related two sentence horror story
Reply: "Boy I'm glad to go to sleep" I said happily

Little did I know... the evil kill dino was under my bed😱

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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 2d

leegte en leemte 😎

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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 2d

The Yom Kippur morning haftarah has a really nice Yiddish construction with the הלזה תקרא צום "this you call a fast?"

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Isaac (from the Internet) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 2d

oy was it dark, and is there a draft in here or is it just god over the waters

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 2d

A bit of linguistic cartography to brighten your day. This map shows how the words for camel 🐫 spread across the Old World.

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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 2d

Nation State Brain is such a good way to put it.

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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 2d

Moabite Arabic, I love it

The Mujib, a steep river canyon, marks the beginning of a
second dialect continuum, which we shall call Muʔābi, also classified
as Southern Levantine. Muʔābi is represented by the dialects
of the southern cities of Kerak, Tafila, Shawbak and Ma’an
and the surrounding villages. This group has several distinctive
features, e.g., the feminine suffix -ki instead of Ḥōrāni -ik, as in
ʔamm-ki ‘your (f) mother’. At the same time, the Muʔābi group
shares numerous features with the central and northern Ḥōrāni
continuum of dialects.

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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 2d

example: MSC European fellowship can fund up to 2 years; ~ 16% funded; 16% * 24 months = 3.84 months; so don't spend more than, say, 3 months preparing or it's not worth it.

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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 2d

I saw that too, can't find it back right now. Anyway, the formula should be research time granted if funded * chance of getting funded. If that's not much higher than the estimated time preparing: bad deal.

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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 2d

Mooi verhaal! Waren er in de decennia voor de val van Antwerpen echt al "joden ... uit alle hoeken van Europa" naar de noordelijke Nederlanden gevlucht? Ik dacht dat de grote Joodse gemeenschappen pas in het begin (Portugese) en midden (Hoogduitse) van de 17de eeuw naar Nederland waren gekomen.

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Roger Abrahams @rogerabrahams.bsky.social · 2d

Taalmythe doorgeprikt: het Standaardnederlands is géén mix van Hollands, Brabants en Vlaams. Het Hollands domineert, en dat komt door de Val van Antwerpen in 1585, betoogt Miet Ooms. rogerabrahams.nl/de-val-van-a... @taalmiet.bsky.social @onzetaal.bsky.social @borgerlamber.bsky.social

De Val van Antwerpen: na 1585 werd de Nederlandse taal Hollands De Nederlandse standaardtaal

Allegorie op de val van Antwerpen op 17 augustus 1585. Door Hans Vredeman de Vries. Ca. 1585. Museum aan de Stroom (MAS), Antwerpen Het dialect van Na 1585 ging het Hollandse dialect de Nederlandse st...

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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 2d

German isn't SAE?

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Isabel Köster @iotasubscript.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

Greetings fellow citron

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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 3d

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

Arthur Urbano @arturoviaggia.bsky.social · 4d

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.

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Are You a Pharisee?

YouTube video by Ascension Presents

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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 3d

Before Classical Arabic even: extremely common for writers of Safaitic inscriptions to say they are ḏ ʾl 'of the lineage of...'.