Tag Archives: Akkadian

What Did the Authors of Isaiah 40-55 Really Know About Babylon: Dr Lena Sophia Tiemeyer

Yesterday I had the privilege of hearing from Dr Lena Sophia Tiemeyer, Lecturer in Old Testament/Hebrew Bible at the University of Aberdeen, as she presented a paper at our weekly Biblical Studies seminar.  Her study was entitled “What Did the Authors of Isaiah 40-55 Really Know About Babylon?” The timing of this presentation, for the [...]
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Why We Need Akkadian (and the Humanities)

The following is from my PhD supervisor Jim Davila’s blog, PaleoJudaica.blogspot.com.  I hope he doesn’t mind me reproducing the entire post, but I feel that it is an important topic and he makes a good argument. WHY WE NEED AKKADIAN is explained in a book review in The Forward: Why We Need Akkadian How One Semitic Language [...]
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