Herodotus also has its problems...

Lots of Orientalism too. Like no one in the ancient world ever had an imagination?

I love Herodotus. And Samuel. And I agree.

As a young and foolish person, I wrote a dissertation that involved both.

They don't need to abolish HEQCO to do that. They can already do it. Maybe this is signalling (more clearly than previously) that this is where they intend to go.

Curriculum is under PEQAB, which is already an "advisory" body for the Minister - not independent.

Shades of Laurentian in Barrie?

Honouring the Declaration Honouring the Declaration provides academic resources to help The United Church of Canada and other Canadian denominations enact their commitment to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peop...

It's in this but I will also look for my pdf
uofrpress.ca/Books/H/Hono...

Half of it would already be written from an essay I did on reading the Conquest narratives in Treaty Six territory a few years ago.

Maybe I should pitch a piece - or someone else should pitch a piece - to @ca.theconversation.com

I KEEP SAYING THIS!!!!

I've written to the G&M several times, for example.

A .75 job so you have to have another job too; or, a full-time job at .75 pay.

I live not too far from Bloor and Spadina where the talk is.

I wish I'd known this! Event is full according to the registration page. It's actually downtown not far from the University of Toronto St George campus. Drop me a line if you have time for a coffee while you're here.

I have access.

Ephraim is 5x in 1 Chr 1-9 and 20x in the rest of Chr.

Which is a mash up of older songs.

This is very niche, but I genuinely laughed out loud.

(The Ontario flag has a Union Jack in the top left, for my non-Canadian follows. And Toronto is the capital of the province of Ontario.)

Hurvitz is very lexeme-focused. But vocabulary is not register. Although I haven't read Hurvitz in a while and probably should.

I've been trying to work this out because I started 30 years ago thinking ABH-SBH-LBH is chronological (how I was taught) but my more recent work on scribal practices has brought me to thinking that it's not.

And this micro-blog format isn't helping me try to explain :)

It's why lexical features alone don't do it in terms of making the distinction. A text can be written in the Persian or Hellenistic period but written in an older form of the language, however imperfectly. Linguistic registers also have prestige (or not).

Dan, Esth, Sir - these have some of those forms, but they are not trying to write in that register. They are trying to write in SBH. So what's interesting to me also is that Chr mostly doesn't "update" the SBH of the source texts but retains that SBH register.

Not really - LBH is the term used for the language of Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, even Qohelet. It's not just about vocabulary (which does change over time, of course), but about syntax and morphology. The syntax and morphology of Chr-Ezr-Neh is a different register.

They're archaizing - they imitate SBH. Not always successfully.

Hellenistic: Daniel, Esther, Ben Sira - all written in Heb that tries to be SBH even if not always successful. Ditto Zech 9-14 and parts of Isa

Although my doktorvater wrote the book - still routinely cited - on LBH, and I once thought it could be chronologically based, I'm increasingly convinced by the linguistic register theory. There are too many texts that must be Persian or Hellenistic that are written in SBH or anachronistic SBH.

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The data tables too: www.ats.edu/Annual-Data-...

Yup. Yup. Yup. Chronicles, Ezra-Nehemiah are fantasies. I think the form of the language they're written in should be our first big clue.

Probably to go along with two understandings of "reconciliation" and the doctrine(s) thereof.