The Song of Deborah: Poetry in Dialect
A philological reconstruction and fresh translation of Judges 5, one of the oldest poems in the Hebrew Bible, read through its Northwest-Semitic dialect.
The Five Volumes
Books
Each volume is offered as a single complete PDF and chapter by chapter. All are free to read, download, and cite.
Clarifying Baffling Biblical Passages
Thirty-six studies that recover lost lexemes and Arabic, Aramaic, and Ugaritic cognates to clarify difficult verses from Genesis to the Gospels.
Clarifying More Baffling Biblical Passages
A second gathering of twenty-nine philological studies, from the patriarchs and the Psalms to the prophets and the Epistle to the Hebrews.
Clarifying New Testament Aramaic Words and Names, and Shem Tob’s Hebrew Gospel of Matthew
The Aramaic words and names of the New Testament, set beside Shem Tob ben Isaac ben Shaprut’s medieval Hebrew text of the Gospel of Matthew.
Miscellaneous Biblical Studies
Twenty-two essays on gender, the ineffable Name, lost lexemes in the Gospels, and the recovery of original readings across the testaments.