The Tolkien Estate has had a website “under construction” for a bit now. But with the release of The Children of Húrin there are new things to see! The best is the Flash intro that cleverly highlights some of Tolkien’s own artwork.
Explore around the site and you’ll see more of his work in the borders [...]
This is a quote from Touchstone Magazine. It touches on some of the discussions regarding translating that we’ve been having in our Proverbs class. I think it is really helpful in showing the complexities and decisions made when we (attempt to) translate.
Word to the Wise by ANTHONY ESOLEN (excerpt)
Dante is often obscure: He coins odd [...]
These posts in the Blog area of Codex are not to be missed:
Abbott & Costello Learn Hebrew
Dr. Seuss Learns Greek
HT: Ros
Here’s a great way to keep your Hebrew alive and well! Each day a short passage is accompanied by vocabulary helps (for vocab occurring fewer than 50x) and grammar annotations. Check it out here (every day!).
HT: Sam Boyd (this is from one of his fellow University of Chicago classmates).
We spent Memorial Day weekend in Durham, NC, visiting Sarah, John, Ethan & Maggie. We had a blast. Not to be outdone by four-year-old Ethan’s antics on the monkeybars (competitive spirits that we are), Sarah and I displayed one of our best monkeybar tricks for the kids.
I actually am looking at the camera… my hair [...]
I thought I would give a brief linguistic explanation for little Jireh’s name.
It comes from the Hebrew verb יִרְ×Ö¶Ö‘×” (yir’eh) which is a qal imperfect (3rd person, mascular singular) form of the verb ר××” which has as its first English gloss “to see.” However, the semantic range can extend from that basic idea to mean [...]
My sister got me hooked on Sudoku puzzles recently.
I’d like to point you to a further challenge… Elvish Sudoku puzzles!
Fear not the unknown… there is even a key to the tengwar numerals.
Click on the thumbnails to be directed to the website where you can download the booklet of 7 puzzles.
OK, I admit it. I love to organize things. And I’m a very visual learner. So, for any of my language courses I usually design a notebook for the translation work and get it bound (at www.lulu.com an online on-demand print company). I also decided that the best way for me to remember the Hebrew [...]
That’s where I am right now. In Greek Boot Camp.
There’s no mud or obstacle courses. But the schedule is pretty rigorous and there’s not much sleep. My month of January has been dedicated to preparing for the Greek placement exam at WTS. Pretty much if we aren’t at church, watching LOST, or catching a [...]
here’s a few to try while traveling over the holidays:
An International Christmas Tree
“X”
“XXX”
"XXXXX"
“GOD JUL”
"BUON ANNO"
"FELIZ NATAL”
"JOYEUX NOEL”
"VESELE VANOCE"
"MELE KALIKIMAKA"
"NODLAG SONA DHUIT"
"BLWYDDYN NEWYDD DDA"
"""""""BOAS FESTAS """""""
"FELIZ NAVIDAD"
“MERRY CHRISTMAS”
"KALA CHRISTOUGENA"
"VROLIJK KERSTFEEST"
"FROHLICHE WEIHNACHTEN"
"BUON NATALE-GODT NYTAR"
"HUAN YING SHENG TAN CHIEH"
"WESOLYCH SWIAT-SRETAN BOZIC"
"MOADIM LESIMHA-LINKSMU KALEDU"
"HAUSKAA JOULUA-AID SAID MOUBARK"
"""""""’N PRETTIG KERSTMIS """""""
"ONNZLLISTA UUTTA VUOTTA"
“Z ROZHDESTYOM KHRYSTOVYM"
"NADOLIG LLAWEN-GOTT NYTTSAR"
"FELIC NADAL-GOJAN KRISTNASKON"
“S NOVYM [...]
Why bother to learn Ugaritic? Why take the time to learn Phoenician script and pour over inscription dictionaries? Why look into Canaanite gods and read Ancient Near East texts? Is there any point to studying something so obscure? Can it possibly have any purpose other than generating more journal articles? Is this going to help [...]
Tomorrow (Thursday, September 8th) is the first day of the fall semester. At 8:30 a.m. I’ll resume the academic year with a church history course (Modern Age). Other courses include OTHT I (Old Testament History & Theology), Aramaic & Targums, and Psalms. Thus ends the summer.
This summer, perhaps more than any in our recent memory, [...]
Oh for a snowday to sit and get caught up on reading Vinyar Tengwar and Parma Eldalamberon!
Or maybe some calligraphy… Greek? Hebrew? Ogham? Tengwar? Too many paths to tread, too little time. I’ve got to find a way to interweave all my interests. Maybe if I do my Hebrew translation work transliterated with tengwar instead [...]
(NOTE: we ran out of final mem’s and no nikud were included in the set, so you’ll have to point it yourself)
And here’s a Christmas hint (or should that be Chanukah?) for my stocking–Biblical Hebrew comic books!!
Westminster places a high value on knowing the original languages of the Bible. There are 19 hours of Greek and Hebrew courses to be completed prior to beginning some of the biblical theology courses. Typically, incoming students spend the summer before their initial fall semester in an intensive Greek or Hebrew course. Basically, one month [...]