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Israel: The 2019 Golda Meir Fellowship Ceremony
On 11.03.2019, I was honoured to join the Golda Meir Ceremony with the other fellowship recipients. It was held at the fancy Maiersdorf Faculty Club on Mount Scopus Campus. The name Golda Meir conveys various meanings to different groups of people.
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Israel: Learning Modern Hebrew at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Part 2)
❤️שלום לכולם! Here are some resources I have found useful in learning Modern Hebrew up to the Dalet Level (Lower Advanced): 1. Dictionary: Morfix is a free online dictionary that allows translation from Hebrew to English or vice versa. You can type in any morphology of the Hebrew term, and the search engine will offer…
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Israel: Learning Modern Hebrew at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Part I)
שלום לכולם!❤️ For the past few months, I have been busy with learning Modern Hebrew at the Rothberg International School at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Now, with the arrival of Spring, I am able to share with you my exam results ☺️ 10 years ago, I completed Level Aleph (Advanced Beginners) and Level Bet…
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Indonesia: Work, Eat, Pray in Malang
Attending the Seventh Biennial Society of Asian Biblical Studies (SABS) Conference in the city Malang in Indonesia was a mind-blowing experience. The conference was held at the Catholic Seminary STFT Widya Sasana and lasted from the 16th to the 20th of July, 2018. About 88 biblical researchers from around the world (mainly from Asia) flocked…
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Resource: Two Great Books on the Textual History of the Hebrew Bible
For those interested in the textual history of the Hebrew Bible, I would recommend these two great books, from which I learn a great deal: 1. Ernst Würthwein and Alexander Achilles Fischer, The Text of the Old Testament: An Introduction to the Biblia Hebraica (3rd ed.; trans. Erroll F. Rhodes; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans: 2014).
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Presentation: “The Dynamic Textual History of the Hebrew Bible” at Fudan University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China
I was overjoyed to receive an invitation to give a small presentation at the Department of History at Fudan University in Shanghai! I spoke on the “Dynamic Textual History of the Hebrew Bible” (《希伯来圣经》的文本流传与历史变迁) on 08.05.2018.
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Book Review: Thankful for Another Comment on My First Book
Prof. Corrine Carvalho has kindly provided the third review on my first book Mapping Judah’s Fate in Ezekiel’s Oracles against the Nations. The review is published at the Catholic Biblical Quarterly 80 (2018): 125-127. Below are the printed pages:
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Book Reviews: Thankful for the Comments on My First Book
Prof. Johan Lust has kindly reviewed my first book Mapping Judah’s Fate in Ezekiel’s Oracles against the Nations. The review is published at Ephemerides theologicae Lovanienses 93 (2017): 152-153. For your reading convenience, here are the photographed pages:
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Interview: Women Biblical Scholars
Dr. Lydia Lee is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Research Focus Area: Ancient Texts: Text, Context and Reception, North-West University in South Africa. She earned her B.A. (Hons) in Biblical Studies and Classical Hebrew at the University of Sydney and Ph.D. in Ancient Near Eastern Studies at Georg-August-Universität Gottingen. She can also be found at […]
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Germany: How Much “Progress” We Have Made after 500 Years of Reformation!
It is our human responsibility to remember what has happened, to try to understand why, and to ask how things could have been different. It is our Christian responsibility to reassess the structures of our beliefs and the effects of these beliefs on others. It is both a human and a Christian responsibility to take…
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