Ola Wikander

Philologian, author. Ugaritologist, Hebraist, Semitist, Exegete. Moonlighting IE-ist. PhD/Reader in Hebrew Bible/OT (Lundensis).

Ordained in a rare religion.

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Updated list of my books, so far (thread)!

First:

Unburning Fame: Horses, Dragon, Beings of Smoke, and Other Indo-European Motifs in Ugarit and the Hebrew Bible (2017)

and

Drought, Death, and the Sun in Ugarit and Ancient Israel: A Philological and Comparative Study (2014)

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I don't know how many of you have seen that weird "Smash Baals" account, but maybe I should start a "Read Baals" account :-D

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Finally incorporating manuscript comments from OT/HB seminar sessions that took place back in 2022 and 2023 :-) .

Who said keeping old scribbled-over pieces of paper doesn't pay off, eh?

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@Intervenienten1 Och amerikaniserad.

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Drought in Northwest Semitic and Egyptian -- an Afro-Asiatic Poetic Inheritance?

A guest blogpost by @OlaWikander on the Afro-Asiatic Corner!
https://t.co/XEICadrARo

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The Ugaritic way of using kbd for the smallest unit in additive numerals is... quite weird and wonderful.

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Gets me every time. Every. Single. Time.

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"Who's like us? Damn few."

IYKYK.

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Still thinking of that time when some online guy called me a "tradcath" and said that I was only interested in "Greek" stuff...

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"Downy sins of streetlight fancies..."

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Hurrian word of the day:
Tumni=lla ("four, they/them / the four, they.../them")

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Berber and Semitic share many morphological and phonological similarities. Those similarities make me feel pretty good about reconstructing Proto-Afro-Asiatic (or at least Proto-Berber-Semitic). But good lexical matches are few and far between. A thread. #berber #semitic

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A few green words of the day:
Various Semitic languages use the root *wrq for describing "green" and similar colors (e.g. Hebrew yārôq, various Arabic words from wrq, etc.). In Ancient Egyptian, the word w3ḏ, "green/blue", is probably related to the Semitic root.

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Hurrian word of the day:
Tumni=lla ("four, they/them / the four, they.../them")

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Ugaritic word of the day:
yḥdh ("together"; cf. Hebrew yaḥdāw).

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"... in the heart of that grey city". But Lundensian.

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@AlCabbage045 I love the crazy-specific level of nonsense: one upper case, and one lower case.

Pgooglep.
I'm getting Psmith vibes here.

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For those not in the know, it's actually short for "Life Model Decoy". But one can always dream!

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I mean, obviously the Marvel (and most specifically, Agents of SHIELD!) self-learning robots imitating humans are called LMDs. Because it's from the Semitic root L-M-D, "to learn"! 😆

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Wonderful, calm summer winds rustling through the trees under the afternoon sun, proving yet again that Sweden is a land of eternal frost and darkness.

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@sccarlson Yeah; this is not common procedure for me at all, but it helped me get a grip on this one thorny issue. Maybe I'll do it more moving forward!

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Just solved a really difficult philollogical problem. At least I think I did.

Writing the argument out in longhand really really helped! I could actually follow the reasoning from start to finish, believe it or not 😇!