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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>
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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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mcarasik.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8314665&amp;post=230&amp;subd=mcarasik&amp;ref=&amp;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>
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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, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mcarasik.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8314665&amp;post=226&amp;subd=mcarasik&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Did Hannah Ask For?</title>
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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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mcarasik.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8314665&amp;post=222&amp;subd=mcarasik&amp;ref=&amp;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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mcarasik.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8314665&amp;post=210&amp;subd=mcarasik&amp;ref=&amp;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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mcarasik.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8314665&amp;post=205&amp;subd=mcarasik&amp;ref=&amp;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. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mcarasik.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8314665&amp;post=200&amp;subd=mcarasik&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Late Biblical Hebrew (Part 3)</title>
		<link>http://mcarasik.wordpress.com/2010/12/17/late-biblical-hebrew-part-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 16:38:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Carasik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History of Hebrew]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Now that we know what the &#8220;Late&#8221; part of &#8220;Late Biblical Hebrew&#8221; (LBH) means, how do we decide whether a biblical text is “late”? That is, how can we decide what linguistic features are found only in LBH, and whether the presence of certain features shows that a text was written after the return from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mcarasik.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8314665&amp;post=194&amp;subd=mcarasik&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Late Biblical Hebrew (Part 2)</title>
		<link>http://mcarasik.wordpress.com/2010/12/07/late-biblical-hebrew-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 23:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Carasik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History & Historiography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History of Hebrew]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve invested a lot of electrons in explaining the background to the study of Late Biblical Hebrew (LBH). Now, at last, it’s time to discuss what biblical scholars mean when we say “late.” The answer is simple—“late” means “post-exilic.” If you don’t consider that answer a simple one … read on, for a quick outline [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mcarasik.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8314665&amp;post=185&amp;subd=mcarasik&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Late Biblical Hebrew (Part 1)</title>
		<link>http://mcarasik.wordpress.com/2010/11/28/late-biblical-hebrew-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2010 19:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Carasik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I said in an earlier post that “Standard” Biblical Hebrew (SBH) was the Hebrew that we find in writings from the middle of the biblical period. A good rough guide is to say that it’s the language of the books from Genesis through Kings. By contrast, the latest books in the Bible are written in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mcarasik.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8314665&amp;post=180&amp;subd=mcarasik&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Bible and Spirituality (Sacred or Secular, Part 3)</title>
		<link>http://mcarasik.wordpress.com/2010/11/23/the-bible-and-spirituality-sacred-or-secular-part-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Carasik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Part 3 of the series I began with my post “Sacred or Secular—or Both?” I wrote in that first post: For some people, spirituality involves chanting, movement, incense, drugs, meditation—but for me, the only possible approach to spirituality is through text study … The bottom line is that “critical” (that is, academic) study [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mcarasik.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8314665&amp;post=176&amp;subd=mcarasik&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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