Well, Christmas has passed for another year. Has it helped the climate? Well, perhaps it has: in the 8 weeks prior to Christmas we received over 6kg of junk mail. Here is our weekly allotment: How has this helped the climate? Well, assuming that most of the junk mail is paper, and most of the…
Month: December 2009
lamentable christmas carols
Yes, there are many lamentable Christmas songs and carols (“Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly” anyone?). Too many to mention. Nonetheless, since ’tis the season, and we’re subject to carols at every corner, I’m going to avail myself of the opportunity to complain a little. Perhaps my biggest gripe is with the common tendency…
luke 2:14
Jim West has posed a yuletide quest to uncover the “right” translation of Luke 2:14 (does anyone else get a Google ad inserted into that page for the “United Church of God”?). So here I’ll get into the spirit and have a go! First, for reference, Jim suggests the following: Glory to the highest God;…
bible software: what’s missing
OK, I’m not going to give a comprehensive list of what’s missing in the various incarnations of Bible software currently available, but there’s one feature I’d like to see which does not currently exist in any Bible software that I’m aware of — the ability to customise the morphological (and, when/where available, syntactical) tagging of texts….
more numerical fun
John Hobbins points to an article in the Jerusalem Post about a new book purportedly revealing startling new discoveries about truths hidden in the Hebrew text of the Bible by Professor Haim Shore from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. There’s endless fun to be had with such mathematical legerdemain, but for now let’s just look…
translating אמן “amen”
Working through some of Jeremiah lately I was prompted to think about the translation of the term אמן (“amen”). By way of reference I decided to see how a number of English translations rendered the term in two places — Jer 28:6 and Matt 5:18 (the latter uses the Greek transliteration ἀμήν). Here are the results:…