DailyHebrew.com

Be sure to check out this month's edition of the carnival.  Jim Getz was very kind to mention DailyHebrew.com.

Congratulations, Ed:

http://ralphriver.blogspot.com/2008/06/i-breathe-again.html

There are several excellent articles available therein (particularly the Pardee article).  What's more it is available as a free online download!

1. The Afrasian Lexicon Reconsidered. M. Lionel Bender
2. PQD Revisited. Stuart Creason
3. ‘May the Gods Preserve You!’: The Variability of Injunctive *la in Epigraphic South Arabian and Its Relation to Jussive Forms within South Semitic. Joseph L. Daniels II
4. Littera ex occidente: Toward a Functional History of Writing. Peter T. Daniels
5. The Story of Mem u Zine in the Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Bohtan. Samuel Ethan Fox
6. Prenasalization in Aramaic. W. Randall Garr
7. A New Masoretic “Spell Checker,” or, a Practical Method for Checking the Accentual Structure and Integrity of Tiberian-Pointed Biblical Texts. Richard L. Goerwitz III
8. External Plural Markers in Semitic: A New Assessment. Rebecca Hasselbach
9. Semitic Triradicality or Prosodic Minimality? Evidence from Sound Change. Robert D. Hoberman
10. Akkadian-Egyptian Lexical Matches. Alexander Militarev
11. Constraints on Ellipsis in Biblical Hebrew. Cynthia L. Miller
12. The Ugaritic Alphabetic Cuneiform Writing System in the Context of Other Alphabetic Systems. Dennis Pardee
13. West Semitic Perspectives on the Akkadian Vetitive. David Testen

 Happy Reading!

…on the Logos Blog:

One of the easiest-to-spot trends over the past two decades has been the spiraling decline in original language requirements in seminaries and Bible schools. With two decades of momentum, this trend is now so well established it has migrated from the classroom to the pulpit. We now have pastors all over the world who lack the ability to consult or teach from original language texts common to prior generations. An unintended consequence of less rigorous study is the general lack of encouragement and emphasis on Bible study and Bible study methods courses for lay people. If a pastor does not demonstrate original language skills, there is little motivation for lay people to explore beyond the reach of their teacher.

Comments, insights, opinions? 

Finally someone did it.  http://www.biblemap.org