biblica + alia = biblicalia
Sometimes sarcasm
iSick
adj. (On the analogy of seasick, carsick, etc.) Describes the slight vertigo one experiences in having to read on an iPhone (or other small-screeened device) by zooming in and panning around a screen of text that doesn’t auto-adjust to fit the screen.
Usage: “Ugh. I’m feeling iSick.”
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Do you want some cheese with that whine?
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My chapter in this book is “An Appreciation and Precis of Jacob Neusner’s Theology of the Oral Torah: Revealing the Justice of God“.
The original version of the article was a series of blog posts here. As they have been reworked and the copyright transferred, I’ve taken them down. So, if you want to read it, you’ll have to buy the book! [Professor Neusner later told me to put them up again, so I’ve done that. The book chapter does read better, though.]
I’m grateful and honored that Professor Neusner included my article in his book, in which the editor and other contributors are such distinguished scholars. It’s quite encouraging!
I must be doing something right, at least some of the time….
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Happy International Septuagint Day!
Mark it on your calendars for next year!
The International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies will thank you for it.
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oaves
the plural of oaf
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I forgot my own anniversary!
Today, this blog commences its fifth year.
The first post is here.
The last post is, God willing, a number of years in the future.
I thank all of you, all my readers known and unknown and those who’ve commented, for your attention and your participation.
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The “match made for heaven” is a set of the Daily Commemoration Cards from Holy Transfiguration Monastery in a Sassafras Wood Recipe Box from Smith’s Fine Woods Products.
Mrs Smith tells me that Mr Smith bought the sassafras (as fun a word to type as it is to say!) wood in 1970, and he made only 16 boxes, and will never make any more. One of these rare boxes is now sitting here in Berkeley with my set of commemoration cards in it! It’s a beautiful wood, darker than oak but similar grain-wise, at least to my untrained eye. Mr Smith said he is proud that his box is holding my commemoration cards. Isn’t that just the coolest? Everyone is happy!
Smith’s Fine Wood Products has many beautiful things available. I’m sure I’ll be buying some more of their beautiful things in the future.
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So, if one is neither overwhelmed nor underwhelmed, would one be whelmed?
And isn’t that just so fine, to be whelmed?
UPDATE:
Rather NOT. See the comments!
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zingularity
n. a particularly witty, short retort. A “one-liner.”
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