Scholar of ancient languages, Reader in OT/HB Studies (Lund), August prize-nominated author. Hebraist, Ugaritologist, Semitist, moonlighting in Indo-European.
Lund University
Joined November 2013
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Updated list of my books, so far (thread)!
First:
Unburning Fame: Horses, Dragon, Beings of Smoke, and Other Indo-European Motifs in Ugarit and the Hebrew Bible (2017)
and
Drought, Death, and the Sun in Ugarit and Ancient Israel: A Philological and Comparative Study (2014)
The abstract for my contribution to the online "Semitic sibilants" conference, that is to be held on the 6th of November (a week from now).
Doctoral defense in New Testament Studies – Lukas Hagel, "Expressions of Messiahism: Reading Romans with Paul within Judaism ". The Faculty opponent/public examiner is Assoc. Prof. Matthew Thiessen, McMaster University.
Who would have thunk that writing a big book on Northwest Semitic poetic motifs would be the reason for me to get back into coding in order to make the entries in the big list of motifs manageable? I sure didn't! But I'm extremely happy it did. Bring me back into coding, that is.
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New for 2026! Bendal's Reading Linear B | Provides readers with the necessary background to begin reading and analysing Linear B documents for themselves.
Find out more: ☑️ cup.org/4z38Lhb
#classicstwitter
ALT Cover image of the book titled 'Reading Linear B', by Lisa Maria Bendall.
Hear hear hear hear hear hear hear hear hear hear hear hear hear (eternal for-next loop)!
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Happy to announce I built a Greek/English reader site with all the surviving plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, & Aristophanes.
Multiple translations for each play; click to parse & define for any Greek word; full Greek & English search.
greekdrama.johnhboyer.com
It's so wonderfully silly to say this and forget, you know... Latin.
Also, the whole thing is, obviously, utterly irrelevant. The shit people say about language never ceases to amaze me...
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#New on #OCIANA - A desperate and emotional #Safaitic plea by a man for his sick wife. He calls upon the goddess Allāt to give life (ʾḥy) back to his wife (mrʾt-h) who is sick (sqmt) and emaciated (ḫsft), and begs her for deliverance (ḫlṣt)
Find more: ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/…
