Jeremy Thompson

My wife and I found out yesterday evening that one of our family members passed away after a year and half battle with pancreatic cancer. Brent Bencaz will be remembered for a lot of things, but most of all for his cheerfulness and his smile. He will be sorely missed by his family members. I…

So, I’ve started an e-mail list on my site. And, it seems to be going really well so far. I’ve gotten quite a number of sign-ups from people all around the world. I’ve put together what I think is a pretty cool free report for those who join entitled “Study the OT for Free.” It…

I know that I have written this in a couple of other places on the site, but I wanted to write a blog post just saying thanks to University of California Television and Villanova University for providing great video content on YouTube. I have put quite a number of their videos on the courses page…

It seems that a lot of you came to the site yesterday to see the video of Jon D. Leveson teaching about Abraham in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. So, I figured you must all like Levenson. In that case, I have posted another video by Levenson today on The Aqedah, or The Binding of Isaac.…

Once again the University of California Television program has provided a helpful video for the study of matters related to the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible. Below is a link to a video they put together in which Jon D Levenson of Harvard University discusses Abraham in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It is often said that Abraham…

Recently, I made a blog post on Robert Alter’s translations, which are unique in their attempt to bring some issues in the Biblical Hebrew text into English. Today I found this video where you can learn about translation from Alter himself. The video is entitled Lost in Translation: The Challenge of Translating the Bible. And,…

This past week I listened to Karen Armstrong’s The Bible: A Biography in audiobook format. And, I must say, I’m not sure if I have ever read a more poorly titled book. Overall, the information in the book was okay; however, there was a glaring issue that I simply could not get past. It was…

I realize that I posted about Charles Grebe’s website AnimatedHebrew.com only the other day; however, I spent a bit more time over there yesterday. And, I must say that the Jonah Comic is absolutely phenomenal. There are not many Biblical Hebrew learning products that I get very excited about since most of them seem to…

I came across a blog post about my supervising professor Christo van der Merwe yesterday through my friend Karyn’s blog (which I mistakenly labeled as “new” in one of my previous posts). She linked into a Hebrew and Greek reader blog post entitled The Bruce Lee of Biblical Hebrew. Apparently, my supervising professor is like…

Up to this point, I have only included on this site courses on the Old Testament, Old Testament history, Old Testament manuscripts, etc. However, this morning I found a free video course on Biblical Hebrew. I have looked around a significant amount for a good free Biblical Hebrew course and this is the first one…