MINI-THREAD.

Respect for our leaders is a good thing, as is love for our neighbours.

Naivety, however, is not.

‘A few weeks to flatten the curve’ soon became a year and more.

‘Vaccinate the over 70s and cry freedom!’ was just as quickly abandoned.
‘No vaccines for children’ and ‘No vaccine passports’ fared similarly. (Why trust leaders whose wives can’t trust them?)

And, as estimates of vaccine efficacy plummet in Israel, freedom has now been made dependent on a 3rd dose of the vaccine...

...which won’t be the last (since Israel has apparently procured about 30 million doses, which makes 4 or 5 for each person, children included).
Meanwhile, concerns with mRNA technology continue to grow,

bitchute.com/video/wtPKDJzK…
natural immunity looks better and better compared to vaccine-induced immunity (as natural immunity always has),

masks are back on the table for the double vaccinated in the USA,

Sweden’s decision not to implement lockdowns--i.e., not to implement experiments with a bad track record which can only tackle the relatively insignificant issue of pre-symptomatic transmission anyway (cp. papers at end)--looks better and better,

fee.org/articles/daily…
and, sadly, all sorts of public spaces--churches included--seem to have been co-opted to promote the now-orthodox doctrine of fear.

I’m not saying these are easy issues to know how to respond to,

but sleep-walking into a world without the freedoms we’ve long enjoyed isn’t the way to go,

and is unlikely to be something our children will thank us for.

END.
LINKS:

Analysis of deaths in Sweden:

shahar-26393.medium.com/not-a-shred-of…
2008 paper on the paradoxical effects of lockdowns:

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
2018 paper on similar paradoxes:

journals.plos.org/plosntds/artic…
Pre-symptomatic transmission thought to account for between 6 and 12 percent of total transmission:
cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/6…
Note also Fauci’s comment before the world went crazy:

‘In all the history of respiratory-borne viruses at any time, asymptomatic transmission has never been the driver of outbreaks’.

dailymotion.com/video/x7w10hm
Correction: Israel has started to *offer* a third vaccine jab and has made freedom dependent on a *first* jab.

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20 Jul
Dear #Semitics folks.

I’d be grateful for some help with some nominal patterns.

Hebrew has a whole bunch of qiṭṭēl-shaped adjectives which describe physical conditions, often defects.

Examples include pissēaḥ = ‘lame’,

gibbēaḥ = ‘bald’,

ḥerēš = ‘deaf’,
ʔiṭṭēr = ‘left-handed’,

ʕiwwēr = ‘blind’,

piqqēaḥ = ‘well-sighted’, and

gibbēn = ‘hump-backed’.

Quite a few more turn up in Mishnaic Hebrew, e.g.,

qiṭṭēaʕ = ‘without a hand/foot’,

giddēm = ‘without a hand’,

ṣimmēaʕ/ṣimmēm = ‘with misshapen ears’,
ʕiqqēl = ‘clubfooted’, and

ḥiggēr = ‘lame’.

These sorts of conditions/defects form a well known type of personal name/nickname, which is attested all over the ANE.
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A MINI-THREAD...

...full of speculation.

Today I came across the Babylonian word ‘tullal’.

It refers to a soap plant (or something like it).
It’s parsed in the Concise Dictionary of Akkadian as a 2nd person (D-stem) conjugation of the verb ‘elēlu’ (‘to be pure’),
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Grateful for advice from #Hebrew and #Linguistics folk.

The Biblical name Naarah (נַעֲרָה) can be translated as ‘girl’.

A bit non-descript perhaps, but then some names are.

Clines, however, reads נַעֲרוֹתֶֽיךָ in Job 41.5 as ‘your sparrows’, which strikes me as plausible. Image
It also finds confirmation in a few apparent cognates from other languages, e.g.,

Mehri «nəγγōr» = ‘stork’,

Akkadian «nēru» = ‘a type of bird’ (from a lexical list), and

Arabic «nuγarat-» = ‘a red-billed sparrow’.
The question:

How much can be inferred about the base form of נַעֲרוֹתֶֽיךָ on the basis of the information above?

And what if anything does that tell me about the likelihood that the name נַעֲרָה is related to a ‘sparrow’ word?
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THREAD: John’s #Passion #Narrative

SUB-TITLE: The Fall in Reverse

A garden, a tree, some thorns, some guards, angels, weapons, and flames.

What passage of Scripture do these things bring to mind? Genesis 2–3, right?

It’s *a* valid answer. But it’s not the only one.
John’s passion narrative involves all of these things,

and its use of them is highly instructive, as we’ll see below.
Like all masterpieces, John’s passion narrative works at multiple levels.

For a start, it can be read it as a historical narrative and subjected to critical scrutiny.

And, when that’s done, it fares pretty well.
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THREAD: Fun with Genealogies.

Soon after the Israelites’ conquest of the trans-Jordan, the Machirites (descendants of Manasseh) came to Moses in order to raise the issue of Zelophehad’s inheritance.
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Hence, if his daughters married Israelites from a different tribe, the Machirites would lose a sizeable chunk of their land-inheritance.
At first blush, the Machirites’ concern seems reasonable enough.

But it also raises a question.
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THREAD: The Book of Judges & its Anti-Feasts

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The book of Judges is a book of deliverance.

That might make it sound like a fairly upbeat story.

Sadly, however, it’s anything but.

As the book unfolds, its acts of deliverance become progressively more bloody and paradoxical, as do its deliverers,...
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A helpless woman is delivered over to her enemies.

These acts of deliverance—or, in the last case, non-deliverance—are portrayed as inversions/antitheses of Israel’s major feasts.
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