Archive for June, 2011

You are currently browsing the Jazz and Word weblog archives for June, 2011.

Scholarship for Everyone: How to use Google Translate

  • Jun 16th, 2011
    • |
  • New Media
    • |
  • No Comments

    • I happened upon Google Translate by accident but now it is clear it was a happy accident. Let’s say you are writing an article and you have a foreign language source that you need a rough translation. If you scan the foreign language source as a RTF (rich text format) then you will be able [...]

    Hebrew Poetry: Reading in a Cultured Space in an Age of Anxiety

  • Jun 12th, 2011
    • |
  • Psalms
    • |
  • No Comments

    • Age of anxiety is a popular meme. A meme is an idea, belief or belief system or pattern that can be replicated. The word meme derives from the Greek word something imitated. Richard Dawkins the British evolutionary biologist coined the term on his book the Selfish Gene (1976) according to Wikipedia. Memes can be propagated [...]

    Thinking about Zion’s History in the Psalms

  • Jun 6th, 2011
    • |
  • Psalms
    • |
  • No Comments

    • Tags: , ,

    I am reading J.J.M. Roberts work on Davidic and the Psalter. ”J.J. M. Roberts “The Davidic Origin of the Zion Tradition” originally published in JBL 92 (1973) 329-44. Also in The Bible and the Ancient Near East Eisenbrauns 2002. His claim: The Zion material begin during the Davidic-Solomonic period. One of the things you notice when [...]