Jeremy Thompson

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  • It’s the Final Countdown … to Get Logos 5 with Introductory Discounts

    I’ve been working very hard on the Bible Sense Lexicon, and I know a lot of other people who have worked very hard to bring you many of the awesome new features of Logos 5. If you’ve been considering upgrading, know that you are in the final hours for getting Logos 5 with the introductory…

  • Thinking about Psalm 19:4

    I’ve been interacting with Kris over at Old School Script for the last day or so about Psalm 19:4, particularly the particle בלי toward the end of the verse.  Here was my last comment in my part of the exchange so far: Okay. So, I realize I was probably too brief and unclear above, but I…

  • Even my autocorrect knows GrEEK is lame

    Some might say that there is no one language that is any better than any other. I think this would be to deny to the clear evidence of Hebrew’s superiority to GrEEK.  Just think about it: if Hebrew wasn’t better than GrEEK, then why was so much of the Bible written in Hebrew and GrEEK…

  • Bible Sense Lexicon on the Logos Blog

    I’ve mentioned within the last week or so on this blog that I’ve been working as a part of a team on a tool called the Bible Sense Lexicon for Logos Bible Software.  Yesterday, there was a post on the Logos Blog explaining one of the ways the tool could be used, namely getting the…

  • Elie Wiesel and When the Meanings Don’t have Words

    I, too, have recently adopted the mantra “words don’t have meanings; meanings have words.”  But, I was struck recently by this passage in the preface of Night by Elie Wiesel where he discusses how there were no words appropriate for the meanings he was trying to convey concerning his experiences during the Holocaust: I had…

  • Two new to me blogs you should follow

    I’ve come upon two new blogs this week, one from two friends I made this year at SBL, Jimmy and Jessica Parks, and one from Kris Lyle, who I knew of from my dissertation supervisor and my friend Josh Westbury, but didn’t know that he blogged.  Kris attended the same university where I did my…

  • Then the Lord was all like, “Come no closer!”

    I posted this thought on Facebook this weekend – that it was fun to think about translating vayomer as “and he was like” or “and he was all like” (for those he don’t know much Hebrew, this form is often translated “and he said” or something similar).  That popped in my head after a recent visit to…

  • What I’ve Been Doing for the Past Year

    Well, if you look at the date of my last post, I’ve taken about an 11 month blogging hiatus. But, so as not to offend Jim, I’m not going to make this one of those “sorry, I haven’t blogged in a while posts.” This is more of a here’s what I’ve been up to, I…

  • Days 10 & 11 – The Sea

    On days 10 and 11, we went to visit Christo (my supervisor) and his wife Marli at Hermanus. We visited the local beach for a short time and tasted wine at La Vierge. La Vierge may have been our favorite wine tasting in South Africa. Erica even liked one of the red wines there, which…

  • Day 9 – Table Mountain

    On day 9 we visited Table Mountain. It is now considered one of the seven natural wonders of the world. The view was gorgeous after we rode the cable car to the top. Then it got pretty cloudy, but it was pretty neat to walk in the clouds.