Benjamin Suchard

@bnuyaminim

Hebrew Bible, Biblical Hebrew, Aramaic, Comparative Semitics. Blog: bnuyaminim.wordpress.com

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@nolketasma.bsky.social 𐡵𐡫𐡬 𐡬𐡭 𐡫𐡩𐡥𐡭!

Benjamin Suchard@bnuyaminim· 23d

The duality of man

Graffiti in all caps on the side of a lecture hall desk.

In white: "Seks en geweld nu!" ('Sex and violence, now!')
In black: "Nee!" ('No!')

Benjamin Suchard@bnuyaminim· 24d

Wonderful opening speeches by @dyma.eurosky.social and the Leuven organisers with baroque saxophone intermezzos 🎷

Balcony view of an elaborately decorated hall where a man addresses the audience.

Dramatically sunlit KU Leuven library on the Mgr. Deleuze square

Benjamin Suchard@bnuyaminim· 24d

Quite pleased with this search result for "Homeric formulas on chalkboard"

Still from The Simpsons of Homer Simpson writing complicated mathematical formulas on a chalkboard. There is also a diagram of a donut turning into a sphere.

Benjamin Suchard@bnuyaminim· 27d

Love this style of writing. Straight to the punch.

H_R in Leviticus and elsewhere in the Torah
Jacob Milgrom
The fundamental premise in unpacking Leviticus is that it comprises two priestly sources, P (chapters 1-16) and H (chapters 17-27) and that H is the redactor of P. In addition to the evidence cited by Knohl I have found thirteen additional pieces of ammunition to add to his stockpile. Among the most potent is H's festival calen-

Benjamin Suchard@bnuyaminim· Jul 14

@mweissohcgl.bsky.social presenting on some #Sabellic inscriptions, this year's penultimate @unileiden.bsky.social Summer School evening lecture.

A man speaks in a large Leiden University lecture hall. The projected slide reads:

The newest iúvila
[ekuk iuvilu ?] Pk. Kaluvieis inim fratrum muinik est fisiais minnaris pas prs suleis bias nessiment fusent sakrasias Tr Blussiieis medikkiai
[This iúvila] is common of Pakis Kaluviis and his brothers. At the Minnari festival which will be next prs soleis bias sacred rights (are to be performed) (:) in the medix-ship of Trebis Blussies.

* fisiais minnaris "at the festival of diminution"

* prs suleis bias nessimas fusent sakrasias "which will occur nearest before the winning of the sun"

Benjamin Suchard@bnuyaminim· Jul 6

First evening lecture of this year's @unileiden.bsky.social Summer School in Languages and Linguistics on the age of Anatolian hieroglyphic, by Willemijn Waal and @alwinkloekhorst.bsky.social

A woman speaks in a large Leiden University lecture hall, flanked by a sitting man. The projected slide reads:
Writing in the Old Assyrian Period
Communis opinio: Assyrian merchants introduced cuneiform script to an illiterate Anatolian society
But: archaeological, philological and linguistic evidence (old & new) suggests that the Anatolians already used a writing system, namely the Anatolian Hieroglyphs (AH), before the arrival of the Assyrian merchants

Benjamin Suchard@bnuyaminim· Jul 4

Big day for Punicposting apparently

Two posts on the timeline, first by Lloyd's Soil: at the cookout. gf's cousin says he wants to join the sophet's army of pervert mercenaries. "for the glory of Tanit and Eschmoun" he says. Well ok. are you a pervert i asked. yes big time he replied. thats why i want to join the army of pervert mercenaries

Second my tonogenesis: Punic word of the day: sanuth 'years'. Happy 250th America! 🇺🇸

Benjamin Suchard@bnuyaminim· Jul 2

Painting of a bearded Middle-Eastern man with a funky five-pointed turban and the caption Saladinus. His facial expression could be interpreted as exasperated or disappointed.

Benjamin Suchard@bnuyaminim· Jun 28

Canada's midfielder Nathan Saliba's last name means 'cross' in #Arabic. Pretty common Christian Arab name AFAIK (his father is Lebanese).

Benjamin Suchard@bnuyaminim· Jun 23

Over the past two weeks, I've received - a new journal's call for papers featuring an illegible AI slop Qumran manuscript - a birth announcement card featuring half-vocalized AI slop for the baby's Hebrew name - this ad that promises to teach you how to read Genesis in the original AI slop Hebrew 🙅‍♂️

Screenshot of an advertisement from the Israel Institute of Biblical Studies. The illustration shows a slender, manicured hand holding a snake and a shiny red pomegranate inscribed with golden pseudo-Hebrew letters.

Benjamin Suchard@bnuyaminim· Jun 17

This reconstruction sounds so Soviet, even the link is red

Wiktionary page: Proto-Germanic. Etymology. From Proto-Indo-European *ḱómsōd (“union, gathering”),

Benjamin Suchard@bnuyaminim· Jun 16

Since I quoted Beem the other day

Cover of H. Beem, 'Jerŏsche: Jiddische spreekwoorden en zegswijzen uit het Nederlandse taalgebied'

Benjamin Suchard@bnuyaminim· Jun 15

Well-known phrases from the Hebrew Bible or the liturgy may also be cited in their entirety or in abbreviation, often for comic effect, as in Dutch Yiddish hinne lou jonem, was e ponem '"Lo, [the Guardian of Israel] does not slumber" (hinnē lō yānūm; Psalm 121:4), what a face (pānīm)' (jocularly invoking divine protection when seeing an ugly person; Been 1998, 99).

Benjamin Suchard@bnuyaminim· Jun 13

Haiku @trouw.nl

Newpaper pull quote from Urgenda-oprichter Jan Rotmans:

Het mooiste ga ik missen.
Maar dat is oké,
ik ben rustig vanbinnen.

"I'm going to miss what's best.
But that's alright by me,
I'm calm on the inside."

Benjamin Suchard@bnuyaminim· Jun 12

No longer on this project, but let me share this call for papers while I anxiously try to think of a topic that would let me attend. More info: www.linkedin.com/posts/fokeli...

Call for papers set against a view of the al-Ula oasis in between red sandstone cliffs:

Center and Periphery in arid environments: mobility, script and language in settled areas and the hinterland.
AICAP conference: 11-13 April 2027.
Location: AlUla, Saudi Arabia
Deadline for abstracts: 14 September 2026.

This conference will explore questions around language, script, and social interaction in contexts where nomadic and settled populations interact and live in close proximity to one another.

Benjamin Suchard@bnuyaminim· Jun 5

long week

WhatsApp messages:
did you know: ketiv is short for konsonantal textv
and qere for reading qradition

Benjamin Suchard@bnuyaminim· Jun 4

Snipped screenshot from an interlinear version of Jeremiah 10:19 showing the first word, oy 'woe'.

Benjamin Suchard@bnuyaminim· May 29

Tweet: the best part of Morbius was when he said "it's morbin' time" and morbed all over those guys

Benjamin Suchard@bnuyaminim· May 27

Ah, sorry, couldn't tell it was paywalled. Line 3!

Benjamin Suchard@bnuyaminim· May 26

construct Arafat vs. absolute Arafah? #Arabic

Bullet points:

Pilgrims devote Arafat Day to prayer, repentance and supplication
Day of Arafah marks emotional and spiritual peak of Hajj rites
By Arab News, 26 May 2026

Benjamin Suchard@bnuyaminim· May 21

The haftara for the second day of #Shavuot, this Saturday, is Habakkuk 3, an Archaic Biblical #Hebrew poem that shares some features with one of the late 9th- or early 8th-century BCE texts found at Kuntillet 'Ajrud.

Photograph of a fragmentary inscription in North Levantine (Phoenician or Aramaic) script, labeled Inscription 4.2.

Hebrew transliteration and English translation of Inscription 4.2. Translation:
1. ...] second time/years[...
2. ] in earthquake. And when God shines forth in the [heights, Y]HW[H...
3. ] R The mountains will melt, the hills will crush [...
4. ] earth. The Holy One over the gods [...
5. ] prepare (yourself) [to] bless Ba'al on a day of war [...
6. ] to the name of El on a day of wa[r...

Benjamin Suchard@bnuyaminim· May 17

unintentional xenogram

Words on a cardboard box: "poets water thee", Dutch for "clean [verb] water tea"

Benjamin Suchard@bnuyaminim· May 14

Meme of the two guys on a tour bus, sad one looking at the rock wall, happy one looking at the beautiful landscape, both are labeled "Akkadian has case"

Benjamin Suchard@bnuyaminim· May 11

Jumpscared by a Mesha replica in the @rmoudheden.bsky.social's new ANE room

Corner of a museum exhibit with a large black inscribed stele and a banner on the development of the alphabet

Benjamin Suchard@bnuyaminim· May 7

(3) two early abecedaries ('Izbet Sartah, Tel Zayit) both switch z with ḥ, could it be that the older name of 𐤆 was just *(ᵈ)zēt? Easier to mix 𐤆 and 𐤇 up if they rhyme?

Close-up of the Tel Zayit abecedary (ca. 950-850), reading (right to left) 𐤅𐤄𐤇𐤆𐤈 whḥzṭ.

Benjamin Suchard@bnuyaminim· May 7

Red alphabets to the rescue!

Altered poster of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, with the title in clumsy "red" archaic Greek, the ancestor of the Latin alphabet, instead of mixed Latin-faux classical Greek.

Benjamin Suchard@bnuyaminim· May 6

אֶבֶן מָאֲסוּ הַפּוּנִים הָיְתָה לְרֻאשׁ פִּנָּה

This year's conference will be held in Monastir a harbor city on the Tunisian East Coast. Not much is known about this historic city, apart from its ancient name : Ruspina (Rous Penna). Since most of the flights out of Europe arrive at the international airport Habib Bourguiba at Monastir-Skanès, tourists often visit Monastir as their first stop on their way to a further discovery of Tunisia.

Monastir, like many harbors in Tunisia, was founded by the Phoenicians who called it Rous. After the Romans defeated the Carthaginians (Phoenician colonists) they renamed it Ruspina.

Benjamin Suchard@bnuyaminim· May 6

We need more of this diction in modern academic publications.