In a couple of weeks third year Hebrew students have our final exam. It’s the final, final exam, which I think means we’re supposed to know Hebrew by now.
Ouch.
Via Mikey, I’ve been using an excellent paradigm training/testing tool from Animated Hebrew. It has a Shockwave interface, which isn’t very pretty and doesn’t allow for [...]

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As someone who uses Accordance Bible software almost every day, I’m keen for the new release. It will (finally) be Universal Binary, which means it will run natively on Intel machines, like my sweet MacBook.
It’s due in the next month or so (Joe has a countdown), which puts the release before the Sydney training seminars. [...]

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If you’re a Hebraist, get yourself over to Sam’s website and check out the beta of his Hebrew paradigm learning software.
It looks sweet (esoteric OS X font issues aside) and could be one of those things that goes global. After all, Sam wrote the app because there wasn’t anything to do the job already.

It’s [...]

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If anyone finds the unicode symbols to designate the Targums, the Peshitta, the Samaritan Pentateuch and the LXX, let me know.

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I had nothing to do with this, but it’s so good I had to put it up here.
Straight from the 2007 College Revue, this is the real story on how Dr Bill Salier became Vice-Principal of Moore College.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8PPCnig8wI]

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We’re working on exegesis of Romans 6 at college at the moment. For those of you doing the assignment, can I encourage you not to settle for a second-rate Unicode Greek font. You’ll notice that Times, Arial, Helvetica and others have passable Greek glyphs (individual characters), but I’ve stumbled on one that I think looks [...]

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We’re studying Romans at college this semester, and as part of a suggestion from one of our lecturers, Sally and I are working through sections of the book. We have about 100 verses that we look at closely in class, drawn from all the big points of the letter, 1:16-17, 3:21-26, 5:1-11, 8, 12:1-2 etc [...]

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It’s going to be a perfect weekend for getting the New Testament essay done - stormy weather is forecast.
With that in mind, here’s some info on my essay preparation workflow, for the second year college crowd. I’m particularly going to focus on the software I use on my Mac, since everyone has their own way [...]

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I’ve just discovered in reading Calvin’s Institutes this last weekend that he agrees much more with Henri Blocher that I thought. Blocher wrote a book on original sin and described it as not so much an ‘infection’ that is transmitted from Adam through the generations to us, but as a loss of divine gifts, which [...]

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I’m pretty much mind-mapping everything now, essays, reviews, planning events, correctly processing dirty glassware prior to phase 1 rinsing etc.My weapon of choice is the exquisite OmniGraffle by the Omnigroup. It’s easy to use and makes gorgeous mind maps that you can make really easy to understand. Here’s one I did for my review of [...]

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Today was the first day of two weeks Hebrew intensive, for those in our year continuing in Hebrew. It was a good day and the year looks like it’ll be at a slower pace than Hebrew in the second half of last year, which was manic.
Here’s a picture of me on my first day of [...]

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A recent episode of The Show with Ze Frank featured Ze telling us his tips for studying (US college students are entering ‘finals’).
I can’t embed The Show here in the blog, so travel over to his website and view the episode. It’s very clever and genuinely helpful for learning and strengthening links in your [...]

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