The Contours of the Land in Israel's History
The Land of Palestine
The land of Palestine took its name from the Philistines (the Pelishtim in Hebrew) who settled along the Mediterranean coast from Joppa to Gaza about 1300–12...
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What Language Did Jesus Speak?
Have you ever wondered what language Jesus spoke?
Let’s take a closer look.
What Languages Were Spoken in First-century Palestine?
Befo...
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Hebrew and You with Lee M. Fields - Swirling Tenses in Ps 2:1–3
The Forms and Translation
The NIV, as do all the most common versions, render all the verbs of Ps 2:1–3 with the English simple present. Th...
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The Companion to Accordance, BibleWorks, & Logos You’ve Been Missing
Cutting-edge Bible software has opened up Scripture like never before. Yet academic institutions have responded in one of two ways: either r...
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Explore the Old and New Testaments through the lens of their original l...
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Biblical Hebrew Award Winners, 2014-2015. Plus an Invitation to Instructors
Did you know Zondervan Academic partners with colleges, universities, and seminaries to recognize students for outstanding achievemen...
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Hebrew and You with Lee M. Fields — From Where Did God Bring Out the Israelites (Exod 20:2)?
When studying the Bible, it is always useful to compare versions. Some differences, though, do not make immediate sense to readers. Two exc...
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Hebrew and You with Lee M. Fields — Words and Emotion: Isaiah 6:5 (Part 1)
A reader posed a question to me about the emotion conveyed in Isa 6:5 by the word נִדְמֵיתִי (nidmêtî). He had grown up with the KJV “I am u...
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Knowing God Rests on Knowing the Biblical Languages — An Excerpt from "Basics of Biblical Hebrew Grammar"
Consider this: God chose to reveal and incarnate Himself to humanity through the specific languages of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek as much a...
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Get Half Off "A Reader's Hebrew & Greek Bible" + Last Week in Review
50% Off A Reader's Hebrew & Greek Bible - good through 7/26We were excited to see hundreds of you share your favorite biblical...
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How Do We Define Biblical Words? (Monday with Mounce 74)
Every once in a while I get a question that is so basic that it has never occurred to me to answer it. Someone asked me the other day, how d...
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