Dust

For there is a language of flowers
for flowers are peculiarly, the poetry of Christ (Christopher Smart)
א ב ג ד ה ו ז ח ט י כ ל מ נ ס ע פ צ ק ר ש ת

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Monday, 14 January 2019

Word density

I'm sure this is somewhat old hat, but it is interesting to see if some words are more densely used in some books than others. Word dens...

Sunday, 13 January 2019

Of knights, camels, polemics, and beauty

Prepared for battle I was just rereading the chapter on polemical language in my book, The Song in the Night. It's a good descriptio...

Saturday, 5 January 2019

Introduction to a translation for the music

I have added a few more examples of my rationale for my concordant reading of the Hebrew Bible for the sake of the music. If you are a reade...

Tuesday, 1 January 2019

Jerome's introduction to the Vulgate

A fascinating read here : A sampler The present translation follows no ancient translator, but will be found to reproduce now the exact ...

Saturday, 29 December 2018

In case you were wondering about the rivers

Continuing the prior post . (I was mildly suprised that this query from the database actually worked.) יאר is also rendered as canal in Da...

Thursday, 27 December 2018

Translation of Names

25% of the words in the Bible I have classified as names. Names of peoples, locations, persons, God, rivers, feasts, stars, species, signs, ...

Tuesday, 25 December 2018

Stems that refuse to be bound by my rules

There are (besides prepositions and conjunctions) several common words that refused to allow me a 1 to 1 or 1 to many mapping from Hebrew to...

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