Category Archives: Hebrew

Elisha and the Double Portion Spirit

Posted on January 15, 2015 by Rick Wadholm

For those interested in the topic, I have just uploaded the paper I presented at the 2014 SBL/AAR annual meeting in San Diego, CA as a special session of the Society for Pentecostal Studies. The title is “Elisha and the … Continue reading →

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Advice from Miles Van Pelt

Posted on March 10, 2014 by Rick Wadholm

There was a helpful little video and blog post recently on Koinoniablog.net where Miles Van Pelt (author of Basics of Biblical Aramaic and co-author of Basics of Biblical Hebrew) offers several bits of advice to language learning. He reminds students … Continue reading →

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Silver Dross or Like a Glaze

Posted on February 23, 2014 by Rick Wadholm

I was a little surprised to find that the TNIV and NIV 2011 have reverted to the Masoretic text (partially) of Proverbs 26:23 against the 1984 NIV which followed the critical rephrasing of this verse in light of Ugaritic and … Continue reading →

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What Is In a Day? Genesis One

Posted on January 23, 2014 by Rick Wadholm

I just realized I have never posted anything (other than my thesis) dealing with the range of meaning for the Hebrew  יוֹם (yom) which is often translated as something like “day”. With all of the kerfuffles (that is a specific theological … Continue reading →

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On Hebrew Poetics (A Brief Introduction and Refutation)

Posted on June 12, 2013 by Rick Wadholm

Suffice it to say that one spends several years learning basic skills in reading and interpreting the Hebrew Bible, but then after all the “rules” one learns (whether those passed down from Medieval Masoretes or ancient scholastics schooled in Greek … Continue reading →

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On Hebrew Poetry

Posted on October 8, 2012 by Rick Wadholm

For those who have spent any time studying Biblical Hebrew (BH) it becomes readily apparent that while BH prose is fairly simple to translate (as far as translation of other languages go),  BH poetry is another matter altogether.  The often … Continue reading →

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Points of Interest

Posted on March 13, 2012 by Rick Wadholm

I thought today I would just post about a couple of things which interested me: (1) Apparently Hendrickson Publishers has just released the fascicle of Biblia Hebraica Quinta: Judges.  I still need to start ordering my copies of BHQ, but … Continue reading →

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"Fourteen" Generations?

Posted on December 5, 2011 by Rick Wadholm

This week I preached from Matthew 1:1-17 on the genealogy of Jesus.  Talk about a fun text!  Needless to say, one of the elements of this text that is troubling (at a certain level) is the emphasis by Matthew on … Continue reading →

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Why I Love the Hebrew Bible

Posted on May 14, 2010 by Rick Wadholm

In my first semester at Bible college I had to take a course on Old Testament Survey. I was expecting it to be boring and obscure. Up till that point I mostly thought the Old Testament was in the Bible … Continue reading →

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Another Post On Learning Biblical Languages

Posted on October 2, 2009 by Rick Wadholm

Elizabeth Groves (a recently hired Lecturer of Old Testament and Professor at Westminster Theological Seminary) posted several practical presentations on why we should take the time to learn Biblcal languages.  I enjoyed them (but then again I love learning languages…as painful … Continue reading →

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