Daniel Lanz

Religious Studies/Old Testament. My interests include Pentateuch, syntax, digital humanities, language acquisition. I enjoy coffee & classical music.

[Daniel Lanz @dtrlanz]

@Joncolombia75 Thanks. I don't know modern Hebrew, but I've heard vowels work differently there.

[Daniel Lanz @dtrlanz]

I have a schwa question (for BH): According to the textbook rules, schwa in וַיְהִי "and it was" should be silent. But many, even experienced readers, pronounce it as vocal. Am I missing something, is this an exception, or is affected by analogy to 3fs ותהי? Any thoughts?

[Daniel Lanz @dtrlanz]

@s_seglenieks Thanks

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@mlizknight Thanks. This specifically is the point I hadn't found in the grammars. (Though admittedly my go-to grammars tend to be dismissive of the whole silent/vocal distinction from the outset.)

[Daniel Lanz @dtrlanz]

@mlizknight @s_seglenieks Not quite. I was trying to ask about pronunciation, not morphology. But the reference to JM §18m was certainly helpful. 👍

[Daniel Lanz @dtrlanz]

I only got to take one seminar with Walter Müller, but I enjoyed his teaching in and outside the classroom. He was the good kind of old-school.

[Mario Tafferner @MTafferner]

Walter W. Müller (1933-2024)

Today I was reached by the news that Prof.Dr. Walter W. Müller passed away a few days ago. He was the one who introduced me to Ancient South Arabian texts during my time as an MA Student in Semitics at Marburg.

[Daniel Lanz @dtrlanz]

I enjoyed The Archies on Netflix.

"The grass is greener where you water it."

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@AbeneazerGUrga @ElizabethWMbur2 @etsjets So pleased to see this. Blessings

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@alfarojoshua3 What do you make of the genre? I've struggled with 1st-person narratives in Ezra-Nehemiah because it's unclear to what extent conventions of 3rd-person narrators apply. Nehemiah is somehow both narrator and character, two roles that are analyzed very differently elsewhere.

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@kpauldueck I'm still working out how best to frame this. But basically, there's a myth out there that they're are bad (though they're not really), quality is more important than quantity, and it's often harder to get the helpful ones into your diet than the others.

[Daniel Lanz @dtrlanz]

It occurred to me today that biblical scholars are a bit like carbohydrates.

[James F. McGrath @ReligionProf]

New book argues education shouldn't be the key to a job https://t.co/nDQ6JTsN38

[Daniel Lanz @dtrlanz]

@ChristophHeilig @Duden Schade. Gerade das hatte ich an ihr geschätzt.

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@ian_t_atkinson Congrats. That's great!

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@azforeman Urdu

[Daniel Lanz @dtrlanz]

@PhDniX @BibHebrew That's a good one.

I was taught in Latin *sin*ister means left. But that doesn't help me remember which one was the lateral.

[Karen Swallow Prior (Notorious KSP) @KSPrior]

A little Epiphany Day humor:

[Yusra Askari @YusraSAskari]

#Dadu - #Sindh, #Pakistan.

This is far from over.

#PakistanFloods

[Daniel Lanz @dtrlanz]

That they can go toe to toe with the best is something to celebrate for sure, but it's nothing new.

[Daniel Lanz @dtrlanz]

Australia overperforms, and everyone starts celebrating the progress of "Asian football."

Folks, South Korea and Japan have been serious world cup contenders for decades. South Korea made semis in 2002. And let's not forgot that Japan's women's team won the world cup in 2011.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

@SeenaKhalil Teams from Asia are making #FIFAWorldCup history by collectively making it further and averaging higher points than ever before.

We asked fans why they think that is 👇