I have moved from the “How am I going to write a paper on this topic” stage of research for my SBL paper and am now in the “How am I going to write a paper instead of a whole book” stage.

Gotta love this in Tobit 7:10-11: Ragouel: 1) Eat, drink, and be merry, Tobias! You get to marry my daughter, Sara! 2) Oh but maybe I should explain something to you. She’s married seven other men and each one dies on their wedding night. 3) Anyways, be merry! 😂

SBL proposal accepted! See y’all in Boston this November!

Nothing like having your writing momentum ruined by MS Word freaking out at a font change you made to a *Greek* style by bolding all the *Hebrew* in the document. I’ve fixed it (by reverting), but this was a 20 minute interruption with me pulling my (metaphorical) hair out 🙄

It’s Christmas night/Boxing Day wee morning hours. I should go to bed. But the house is quiet, I have very nice bourbon, and there’s a JRPG to play.

Getting ready to cross the Pacific on my way home. Loved seeing old friends and making new ones at #sblaar24! It was a blast of a conference full of good papers, meetings, and food. See y’all next year in Boston! (Or in Sydney next August for the Septuagintally inclined 😉)

Came all the way to San Diego to get a chest infection. See all my #SBLAAR24 folks in 24 hours once the antibiotics have kicked in 😭

One flight down. Two more to go. The long one over the Pacific is starting now … see y’all soon in San Diego! #SBLAAR

Almost time for that magnificent time of the year: #SBLAAR! Who else will be in San Diego next week?

Haven’t seen this one yet… Give it a share if you would. Help me find out who else is on here. Reply if in OT/HB studies and I’ll add you. go.bsky.app/FFeqvaV

The academic year starts next week and that’s exciting (especially looking forward to my second-year Hebrew class!), but honestly I’m more stoked about seeing a group of my students tonight for our first D&D session of the year 🤷🏼‍♂️🤓

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Commencing 26+ hours of travel from Adelaide, South Australia, to San Antonio, Texas. Can’t wait to see everyone at SBL/ETS/IBR!

Today was the final exam for first-year Greek. And boy did my students PASS. (As much as I want to say the bottle of Blanton’s is the best part, the card with notes from each student is so touching, special, and perfect ❤️)

In Gen 33:4, when Esau runs to Jacob and kisses him, we have this spectacular verb ("he kissed him") where every letter is dotted. Why? There are a few theories, but the best by far is from Rabbi Yannay in Bereishit Rabbah 78:9: Esau didn't kiss Jacob ... he BIT him! (1/3)

Just noticed that my new book with SBL Press, Discourse Markers in Early Koine Greek, has switched from “forthcoming” to “available!” Very grateful to see the fruit of years of labor and to hold it in my hands! https://cart.sbl-site.org/books/060477C

Hello! Just getting set up over here, but I’m Chris and I like talking about linguistics, Classical Hebrew, and Ancient Greek. Also video games and D&D.