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Eric Cline created the group
Near Eastern Archaeology on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months ago -
Eric Cline created the group
Biblical archaeology on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months ago -
Jacqueline Vayntrub's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months ago
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Jacqueline Vayntrub's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months ago
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Jacqueline Vayntrub deposited ‘Observe due measure’: The Gezer Inscription and Dividing a Trip around the Sun on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months ago
This study reexamines the form and character of the Gezer ‘calendar’ inscription, examines the text’s structural affinities to the list of times in Ecc 3 and demonstrates how the Gezer inscription is, itself, a combination of two incompatible ways of giving an ordered structure to time.
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Jacqueline Vayntrub's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months ago
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Jacqueline Vayntrub deposited Biblical Hebrew šninɔ: A ‘Cautionary Tale’ of Root Identification on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months ago
The present study comprises a philological examination of the Biblical Hebrew term šninɔ. The contextual semantics, the ancient translations, and the re-identification of the verbal root ŠNN as a by-form of ŠNY ‘to recount’ demonstrate that šninɔ may be realigned as related to this root and translated as a ‘cautionary tale’.
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Jacqueline Vayntrub deposited ‘To Take Up a Parable’: The History of Translating a Biblical Idiom on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months ago
The following study examines the history of the translation of a Biblical Hebrew phrase in Greek, Aramaic, and Latin—a phrase which shaped the English idiom “to take up a parable, proverb, or song.” As early as Greek and Aramaic Bible translations, the phrase NŚʾ mɔšɔl was translated word-for-word in the target language, even though the verb u…[Read more]
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Jacqueline Vayntrub deposited The Book of Proverbs and the Idea of Ancient Israelite Education on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months ago
The study challenges the use of the book of Proverbs as a primary data set in the recovery of ancient Israelite and Judean educational values and practices. The study argues that an examination of the nature of the Book of Proverbs and its poetics must necessarily precede the use of this text in reconstructing the values and practices of ancient…[Read more]