by Wendy Widder | Jun 1, 2013 | Aramaic, Daniel 5, The Book of Daniel
People have asked me on occasion why I like Hebrew (the language of the Old Testament) better than Greek (the language of the New Testament). There’s a variety of ways to answer this question, but today’s answer is that Hebrew is friendly to lefties. If you’ve had the...
by Wendy Widder | Mar 3, 2013 | Aramaic, Daniel 5, The Book of Daniel
Belshazzar may not have finished swallowing his first sip of wine from God’s goblets when a disembodied hand appeared, writing on the palace wall. The narrator bothers to tell us that the hand was opposite the lampstand. Maybe he wants to explain why the king could...
by Wendy Widder | Sep 23, 2012 | Aramaic, Daniel 4, The Book of Daniel
So what’s this important something Nebuchadnezzar had to say? The suspense has probably been causing you pain for a week. Let me put you out of your misery. The great and mighty king of Babylon is bubbly. He’s tickled to tell his story. The stuffy wording of most...
by Wendy Widder | Sep 17, 2012 | Aramaic, Daniel 4, The Book of Daniel
I still send letters, honest to goodness letters, through the mail. (I’d say I still write letters, but that’s not true. I type them.) When I tell people this, they look at me funny. (I try to avoid telling them at the same time that I don’t carry a cell phone.)...
by Wendy Widder | Sep 10, 2012 | Aramaic, Daniel 4, The Book of Daniel
I didn’t blog. And, aside from two weeks teaching the book in Myanmar, I didn’t think about Daniel. Thus, I am in need of review. Presumably, so are you. I will resist my teacherly urge to spend the next three blog entries reviewing (especially since I’m...
by Wendy Widder | Feb 26, 2012 | Aramaic, Daniel 2, The Book of Daniel
At long last, we have reached the end of Daniel 2. It’s an interminably long chapter – an impression I had when I had to slog through it verse by verse in Aramaic for a PhD class. Blogging through it has done nothing to change that impression! Here’s how things end....
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