MSH | March 7, 2013
Some readers have drawn my attention to this recent criticism of my understanding of the morphology of the word nephilim. I left some comments on that blog site, but thought it would be worth a post here. I’ll try to be brief (stop laughing). First, it is true that most scholars see nephilim (spelled npylym [...]
MSH | March 5, 2013
Thanks to Peter Gentry for this note. Thanks to the hard work of Ben Wright and Jay Treat, volumes 1-33 (1968-2000) of the Bulletin of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies (BIOSCS) are now available in PDF online. The IOSCS printed these first 33 volumes and have obtained permission from the current publisher (Eisenbrauns) to [...]
MSH | January 16, 2013
The Göttingen Septuagint is the premier critical-scholarly edition of the Septuagint. If you’ve ever seen or used it, you know it can be intimidating. Fortunately, Abram K-J (Words on the Word blog) has created a primer in two parts on how to read and understand the Göttingen Septuagint. Here are the links (highly recommended): How [...]
MSH | January 18, 2012
Readers know that my employer, Logos Bible Software, has been on the cutting edge of syntactical analysis for the Hebrew Bible and the Greek NT for a little over five years now. Recently our Greek database ninja, Rick Brannan, posted about a new pre-pub on the Logos blog that aims at finishing our project to [...]
MSH | September 2, 2011
The German Bible Society (highly reputed in academia) have released their texts on their website for free use: the Greek NT (NA27), Hebrew Bible (BHS), and LXX. Thanks to Mark Goodacre for this alert. Technorati Tags: BHS, German Bible Society, Greek New Testament, Hebrew Bible, LXX, NA27, septuagint
