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		<title>Harry Orlinsky</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 13:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Carasik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my column featured last week in Jewish Ideas Daily, I reported on an event held at the New York branch of HUC-JIR, the Reform Jewish seminary where Harry Orlinsky taught Bible for many years. I thought I&#8217;d use this space to expand a bit on my comments there, for readers who have a particular [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mcarasik.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8314665&#038;post=251&#038;subd=mcarasik&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Koren Edition (A Biblicist Reads the Talmud)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2012 15:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Carasik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, for a change, &#8220;the Bible Guy&#8221; becomes a Talmud guy. This is my first post in what may become an occasional series, &#8220;A Biblicist Reads the Talmud.&#8221; Last August I completed the 12th cycle of the page-a-day &#8220;Daf Yomi&#8221; program for learning Talmud. (I hope to write more — much more — about this [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mcarasik.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8314665&#038;post=254&#038;subd=mcarasik&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Exilic Biblical Writing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2012 22:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Carasik</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[History of the Biblical Text]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I attended the 2012 conference of the Society for Biblical Literature (held in conjunction with the American Academy of Religion), this year at Chicago’s McCormick Place. This isn’t meant to be any kind of comprehensive report; those who’ve been to the SBL will know that’s impossible, since dozens of sessions are running concurrently [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mcarasik.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8314665&#038;post=248&#038;subd=mcarasik&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Were the Israelites Enslaved?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Carasik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Were the Israelites ever slaves in Egypt? To many, this will seem like an absurd question. The book of Exodus has a dozen chapters explaining that they were. Yet recent decades have found at least some biblical scholars casting doubts on the historicity of this story. The sociological approach pioneered by George Mendenhall outlined a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mcarasik.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8314665&#038;post=240&#038;subd=mcarasik&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bach&#8217;s Musical Offering (Solving a Biblical Mystery)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Carasik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[James R. Gaines&#8217; Evening in the Palace of Reason is an entertaining and readable dual biography of J.S. Bach and Frederick the Great. (Hat tip for recommending it to me: Alan Rothenberg.) What&#8217;s it doing on this blog? Answer: It points to a mystery that (it seems) no one has yet solved. Who ya gonna [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mcarasik.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8314665&#038;post=230&#038;subd=mcarasik&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A baseball version of Psalm 23</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 19:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Carasik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Summer Psalm&#8221; by Isaac Moreson The Lord is my backstop, I shall not get behind the hitters. He keeps them grounding out to the infield, He walks me to the dugout cooler. He throws a new ball back, He lifts low pitches up to the strike zone. Yes, even when the bases are loaded, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mcarasik.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8314665&#038;post=226&#038;subd=mcarasik&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Did Hannah Ask For?</title>
		<link>http://mcarasik.wordpress.com/2011/06/23/what-did-hannah-ask-for/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Carasik</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[1 Sam 1:11]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Journal of Biblical Literature, which published my note about the phrase זרע אנשים (zera anashim; see my earlier post here) in 1 Sam 1:11, has now published an even shorter note responding to it — by none other than Shalom Paul of the Hebrew University. After Mayer Gruber, now of Ben-Gurion University, he is [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mcarasik.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8314665&#038;post=222&#038;subd=mcarasik&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In the Valley of the Shadow</title>
		<link>http://mcarasik.wordpress.com/2011/02/27/in-the-valley-of-the-shadow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 21:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Carasik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m interrupting our somewhat leisurely discussion of Late Biblical Hebrew for some comments on a current book—James Kugel’s In the Valley of the Shadow. I don’t intend to write a full review of the book (though I’ll summarize my thoughts in a paragraph or two), but I want to record my surprise at a couple [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mcarasik.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8314665&#038;post=210&#038;subd=mcarasik&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Late Biblical Hebrew — מלכות (malchut)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Carasik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History of Hebrew]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As I said in my last post, Avi Hurvitz&#8217;s method of identifying a feature of Late Biblical Hebrew (LBH) combines three elements: (1) distribution (2) attestation outside Biblical Hebrew (3) standard equivalents This time, we&#8217;ll look at just one example from Hurvitz&#8217;s demonstration that Psalm 145 (which makes up most of the &#8220;Ashrei&#8221; prayer that [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mcarasik.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8314665&#038;post=205&#038;subd=mcarasik&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Late Biblical Hebrew (Part 4)</title>
		<link>http://mcarasik.wordpress.com/2011/01/02/late-biblical-hebrew-part-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 23:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Carasik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History of Hebrew]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Now that we have a baseline to start with — the books of Daniel, Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther, in which, if anywhere, we can expect to find Late Biblical Hebrew (LBH) — we can look more closely at the method by which to determine whether any particular linguistic feature is indeed representative of LBH. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mcarasik.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8314665&#038;post=200&#038;subd=mcarasik&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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