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For SBL Folks Bringing Kids or Who Love Disney
If you’re bringing kids to SBL or love Disney, there is a new exhibit at the New Orleans Museum of Art. It is in town in relation to the release of Disney’s new film The Princess and the Frog. It is called “Dreams Come True” and you can find out more about it HERE.
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Daily Hebrew and Greek in BibleWorks 8
Probably the feature that I was most excited about when I found out I would have the opportunity to review BibleWorks 8 was the Bagster’s Daily Light feature, which allows this resource to be viewed in the language of one’s choosing whether, English, Greek/Hebrew, or otherwise. I run my website and blog related to the…
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Bagster's Daily Light – Thy Thoughts are Very Deep (BibleWorks 8)
I opened up BibleWorks 8 this morning to be greeted with the Bagster’s Daily Light for the day. This is a resource I am very interested in because it hits me with just a bit of Hebrew and Greek every morning and evening, which is something that is good for the soul. I’ll give a…
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You Break the Teeth of the Wicked
That is a phrase that is left out of the Responsorial Psalm for today. Psalm 3 consists of 8 verses in the Hebrew text. The response for today uses every verse in the text except for one. Why leave out one verse? Because it reads: Rise up, O LORD! Deliver me, O my God! For…
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Hatin' on Horses
Just started teaching a study on Psalms today in my parish. One of the texts we looked at was Psalm 33 and I was reminded from verse 17 that there is a lot of hatin’ on horses in the Old Testament. Here’s a sampling: Useless is the horse for safety; its great strength, no sure…
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BibleWorks 8 Functionality on My Mac
Perhaps the first thing on many people’s minds when they see me reviewing BibleWorks 8 is “Isn’t BibleWorks a Windows program? And, aren’t you a Mac user?” The answer to both questions is “yes.” However, programs for running a Windows OS and Windows programs on a Mac have come a very long way with offerings…
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Received My Review Copy of BibleWorks 8
Yesterday evening I received a review copy of BibleWorks 8. Be on the lookout for a number of forthcoming posts. The first will come very shortly and deal with the install for a Mac user, namely me. In addition, there are a lot of features that I’m really, really looking forward to taking a look…
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The Limited Usefulness of Semantic Domains for Learning Biblical Hebrew Vocabulary (Part 2)
I should preface this second post on the limited usefulness of semantic domains for learning Biblical Hebrew vocabulary by stating that I did not always think this was the case. In my intermediate Hebrew course, I remember having Landes as the vocabulary text and thinking it was great to see someone finally do something other…
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Finkbeiner and Nicol on Interference
Yesterday I posted a bibliography on the problem of interference when learning semantically related words, which I have updated this morning. However, I know that not everyone will have access to all of those works and that not everyone will have the time to read them all. But, I have found one of the articles…
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Interference When Learning Semantically Related Words (A Bibliography)
This morning I wrote a first post stating one of the reasons I believe learning semantically related items is of limited usefulness, at least early on in the learning process. There was a bit of interest in that post with the first part of my reasoning being called into question. But, it may be a…