Semitic
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Did the Philistines Speak Greek?
It’s often nice to spot familiar faces where you don’t expect them, like an unforeseen run-in with a friend while on holiday. Joy in unexpected encounters is possible in the intellectual realm too; during my wanderings through the linguistic past, I’ve delighted in meeting languages and their humans whom I already know from elsewhere. One… Continue reading
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Fatal Pronunciation: The Shibboleth Story
The Bible can make for a gruesome read. An effortless observation (which has led to much reasonable criticism) is that, for a collection of texts which many people take as foundational for life, it contains a lot of violent death. This can be of a single named individual or of an uncountable number of nameless… Continue reading