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A New Standard Lexicon for Hebrew?

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Abram K-J shares his thoughts on the Dictionary of Classical Hebrew (DCH). All you Hebrew nerds should check it out…

Words on the Word

HALOT has been the scholarly standard in Hebrew lexicons, but might that change?

The mammoth 8-volume Dictionary of Classical Hebrew (DCH) is another major lexical source for readers of biblical Hebrew to consult. What is unique about the DCH is that lexicons like HALOT and Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) cover solely the Hebrew found in the Hebrew Bible. DCH, by contrast, covers a wider corpus–“from the earliest times to 200 CE,” it says. According to its product page:

It is the first dictionary of the classical Hebrew language to cover not only the biblical texts but also Ben Sira, the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Hebrew inscriptions. It is the first dictionary to analyse the exact sense of every occurrence of every word, to follow every Hebrew word or phrase with an English equivalent, to print a frequency table of occurrences of each word, and to provide an…

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Carnival Time

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It’s Carnival Season…

Septuagint Studies Soiree #3 a monthly tour of all things Septuagint by Abram K-J

The Biblioblog Carnival great job this month by Brian Davidson

Finally, I will mention one more because if I don’t Jim might get upset, and if he does then we will have to listen to him complain on twitter all month. So to save of us all the trouble and to keep him from embarrassing himself any further on twitter:

The October Carnival hosted by the one and only Dr. Jim West.

The Septuagint Studies Soireé has arrived!

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Abram K-J over at Words on the Word has started hosting a monthly Septuagint Studies Soireé, similar to the monthly Biblical Studies Carnival but focused (obviously) on the LXX.  I am an LXX fanatic and so I’m especially glad that Abram is putting this together each month.  The world needs more exposure to LXX studies and this is a great place to start.

I hope to be able to contribute some more posts on the LXX in the near future (I recently posted snippets from my work on Susanna here, here, and here).  Since I’m currently taking a class on Paul and his letters I would like to touch on Paul’s view of Scripture, particularly his use of the LXX.  I’m also planning to read through the Apocrypha this semester since I’ve only ever read bits and pieces… I know, for shame!).  One could easily get lost in the field of Septuagint studies as there is so much to learn and discover, but it’s all wonderfully fascinating and incredibly important to the life of the Church.

Be sure to check out the Septuagint Studies Soiree #1 as well as August’s Biblical Studies Carnival hosted by Brian LePort (coming September 1st).