Nathan Maroney

From Heb. נָתָן, cf. Pho. 𐤉𐤕𐤍, Ug. 𐎊𐎚𐎐, Syr. ܢܬܠ, Akk. 𒈾𒁕𒉡𒌝 / 𒋧 / 𒈬 / 𒀸

[Nathan Maroney @enmaroney]

Yeah Greek interlinears are cool...but how about this 2nd millennium Amorite-Akkadian interlinear

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An online conference on Sibilants in Semitic - presenters include philologists and general linguists / typologists

November 6

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@DavidAShutt @UMClassics @UMichLing @HarvardDivinity Congrats!!

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Dunash ben Labrat - Hebrew grammarian / Rap battler

He wrote a work on Biblical Hebrew lexicography (in Hebrew!), containing poems that attacked his predecessor Menachem and his dictionary

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@LambDesigns Awesome

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@drjohnmeade @DJngKnd @DrPJWilliams Absolutely
Though many readers will take the text and leave behind the apparatus
As happened with the work of a certain Alexandrian scholar :)

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Super stoked to see my good friend Paul Jackson’s Greek Lexicon

Preorder:
https://t.co/IzCRPWB0W2

[Gregory Lamb, Ph.D. @LambDesigns]

Happy to receive this (overnighted) first copy of my published dissertation from Mohr Siebeck this morning. This monograph marks the fruit of a decade of research and it is my quotidian prayer that my work—in at least some small way—glorifies God & helps others.

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@dwmclaurin Aramaic in undergrad? That’s awesome

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The real question is if reading silently counts as reading
Ancient scribes may have answered no

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@KasenFanning I appreciate it

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@OlaWikander @sccarlson Never know what’s useful till it is

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Happy segholate noun day to all who celebrate

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Imagine explaining this to Ephrem

[James F. McGrath @ReligionProf]

Four AI Tools for Syriac Studies https://t.co/KhMO3XfzjL

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@Vokabre It seems to work!

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side of the tablet, celebrating his recovery of the object, 600 years after it was taken by Babylon.

In other cases, old inscriptions were found when foundations of buildings were being relaid.

We could say that the first Assyrian archaeologists were the Assyrians themselves.

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🧵Clay tablet containing part of a treaty between Esarhaddon of Assyria and Humbaresh of Media (672BC). Section A at the top has part of the text of the treaty. Below this are three seal impressions. B is a seal of Esarhaddon's father, Sennacherib. C is a seal of the deity /1

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inscriptions for posterity, invoking curses on anyone who should destroy the inscription.

In one case, Sennacherib recovers from Babylon an old inscription from Tukulti Ninib I (13th cent BC), that had been taken as spoil. Sennacherib writes his own inscription on the flip /3

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@langofmind Which begs the question, how do English speakers know to put a wh- word at the front of a sentence

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Can't wait for #4 to publish his research