Purim Jewish holiday uses Hebrew plural –im in the text of Esther on the loan word for the casting of lots.

The Greek New Testament Study Bible—Coming Soon Pre-Order Now! (Coming October 2026)

Greek NT Study Bible coming soon. I wrote the Galatians notes. The rest of it is really good!

nijaykgupta.substack.com/p/the-greek-...

I’m sure they’re fine. I wouldn’t bother checking.

A friend of mine is an emergency room specialist doctor in Sydney. When those gyms came out a few back she and colleagues across other hospitals ran an informal study to see if there was an uptick in spinal injuries, etc.

The only significant category? 40-something men.

(“Watch this, kids!“)

This will probably end up in a cartoon Patrick heresy video

If another of the family were the commentator, applying that work to the viewer…

She’s good

I have never heard a funny Chuck Norris joke.

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

I have a theology joke and God it's good.

PhD in theological studies: quotation technique and linguistic analysis of verb-form changes in New Testament quotations of the Septuagint. Now working for the Bible Society of Australia as a translation consultant for local vernacular Bible translation projects around Oceania.

How far back in time can you understand English? An experiment in language change

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.

It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.

www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

Run them at the same time, opposite hemispheres.

Oh man, I h̶e̶a̶r̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ read you.

I can read many languages, understand a fraction of them, speak basically just one.

Kayo, ESPN

Other than that, how was the play?

It’s definitely evocative!

‘Farage of deceit’ is quite the phrase

Now I want to hear the talk

Do one, then go to a bunch of others. It's an abstract with an interesting title. Make it a PhD (sub)chapter, or otherwise you've got 5 months to write something new. If you have something already find a section to do it in; if something new do it in a section you'd like to contribute to.

Also 19. No AOL because I didn’t live in the States till 2014, but I get the checkbook only because I lived in the States in 2014. 2014!

This is 100% what I came here to write

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

One Pluribus under God

I love the forward planning for multi-use spaces.

Bedroom 4 is also pretty great.

I’ve had this a lot, but one time:

“I’m a minister”
“Oh really? Which political party?”

Could have spiced up the main table conversation by arguing that she's got double the sacrament of marriage

What? How?

Did you get on a plane going the wrong direction and were too embarrassed to say something and took the long way round the globe?

“Christian? I prefer to describe myself as a ‘Christ-followee’”