[[EDIT: See additions at bottom of post.]] I am now a semiticist and Old Testament scholar. This blog post fulfils a dream I’ve had since being a little boy: translating some of the stuff you…
The following Python code will generate a python module called hebrew_dict.py that contains a dict called hebrew that has the unicode names and chars for the Hebrew codeset stored as key-value pairs. Compatibility Python 2.7:…
The following function converts a list of dicts to a unicode string that can be piped into a csv file. All cells are quoted. If the dict contains lists, then these are written as a…
Using Python 2.7 I struggle to get pprint to work well with unicode. So I wrote my own function for handling complex structures made of dicts and lists that contain linguistic data stored in utf-8….
The following script will open all files of type in the directory it is placed. Save as a file and make executable:
Grasping the geography of Israel, the levant and surrounding regions is important, but something I find elusive. It really helps me to have, or create, good maps. I recently had reason to put some maps…
Donner, H. (2013). Wilhelm Gesenius: Hebräisches und Aramäisches Handwörterbuch über das Alte Testament (18 ed.). Berlin: Springer. This is an excellent lexicon, and the death of Herbert Donner only recently (2016) is very sad for…
The Amharic word for “word” is ቃል. At least that’s the word for “word” used in John 1:1 in my Amharic Bible. The “ቃ” represents the sound “qa” with a long “a” and an ejective…