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The Lord's Prayer: Nearly Ready
Over on AramaicNT.org:As per request, we nearly have The Lord's Prayer, reconstructed in early Galilean Aramaic in its most primitive form ready to share. It will be presented in the same form as the...
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The Lord's Prayer Reconstructed in Galilean Aramaic Posted!
It has been posted for everyone to enjoy here:http://aramaicnt.org/articles/the-lords-prayer-in-galilean-aramaic/Peace,-Steve
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For My Friends Attending SBL
Where I am once again unable to make the trip due to family obligations (one of which is the awesome fact that by the end of the weekend my wife and I will have been married for 12 years :-) ) there is...
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Help Support AramaicNT.org
This newly-resurrected project I'm working on has some awesome things on the horizon, and the certificates came out so nice *I'd* like to see something like that in my stocking. Please consider...
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The Biblioblog Reference Library is Down...
This might be it for a while until I figure out a better solution.Details are here:http://bibliobloglibrary.wordpress.com/2012/12/06/the-reference-library-is-down/Peace,-Steve
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New Feature at The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon
The "Dictionary Collation":"Since the CAL covers so many different Aramaic dialects with varying spelling systems, we have had to adopt a spelling convention for our lemmas (headwords) that is often at...
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"Let it Schnee Let it Sneeuw Let it Snö" - Even Rosetta Stone isn't Perfect
Over on Our Mechanical Brain there is a good example of how even the most well-respected companies can make mistakes... and why one should always check up on what their marketing departments are up...
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In Memoriam: John William "Mack" McKenzie Brady (Jan 16 2004 – Dec 31 2012)
No parent should have to lose their child. What I have learned from what my grandparents experienced when we lost my mother is that the grief that they felt cannot possibly be put to words. Having...
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New Features at the Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon (CAL)
A bunch of new search options are now available at the Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon over at Hebrew Union College. Here's the official statement:The Advantages of the Online Comprehensive Aramaic...
View ArticleThere is no Shame in the Gospel - Another Pun?
I've come across another potential pun within Aramaic contemporary to Jesus... but this time (of all places) as a saying within Romans. Where Romans discusses there being "no shame in the Gospel"...
View ArticleAramaic Tattoo Troubles: An Email I Wrote
The following is an email I just sent out. All identifying information has been scrubbed.Click here to listen to it read aloud. It really helps. :-)==========Dearest [REDACTED],Thanks for emailing...
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King Jesus of Edessa by Ralph Ellis -- Er.. What?
I usually don't discuss new books here on The Aramaic Blog... but sometimes a work inspires something within me that I cannot contain. One of those books is "King Jesus of Edessa" by Ralph Ellis... and...
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The Tale of Peter Rabbit - In Galilean Aramaic
Yep, it's finally going somewhere, but with some AramaicNT.org style, available to all site Supporters.The Online Storybook is going to be awesome. Where Version 1 is going to be fairly straightforward...
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So What Does Transcribing a Manuscript Look Like?
Working on the Mandaic Book of John.Well, in truth it's rather boring if you're not a linguist. But this tends to make folks like me geek out. :-)Gotta admit, though, (and I'm not endorsing Apple, just...
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"New experiments on [the Shroud of Turin] show it’s not medieval" -- What??
The numbers 'mitre' be wishful thinking."The new tests carried out in the University of Padua labs were carried out by a number of university professors from various Italian universities and agree that...
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A Curious Inscription
Curious.... Very curious... That's *awfully* familiar... :-) Peace,-Steve
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For Christian Brady
In honor of Chris Brady (aka "Targuman")'s brand new Facebook photo. :-)Peace,-Steve
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Meanwhile in the Mandaic Book of John...
Sometimes the scribe simply couldn't make up their mind what they were trying to write...For those of you who aren't familiar with the Mandaic alphabet, here's a better illustration:Quite sloppy. I'm...
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Géza Vermes (1924-2013)
Sadly, the field of Biblical Studies has lost a great scholar: [1][2]Géza Vermesבשלמיה(Rest in Peace)Peace,-Steve
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Aramaic Tattoo Critique - Actually, not too shabby. :-)
A potential customer brought this tattoo to my attention. Overall it's not too bad. It's completely legible and all in the right order (bravo!). There are -- however -- a few things that need to be...
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