Ola Wikander

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 title of the dissertation is: "From Eyes to Icons: The Visual Poetics of the Empty Tomb in Greek Gospel Narratives".

And today, Maria Sturesson defending her dissertation in New Testament! The public examiner/faculty opponent is Outi Lehtipuu, Helsinki.

The title of the dissertation is "From Eyes to Icons: The Visual Poetics of the Empty Tomb in Greek Gospel Narratives".

Habemus doctricem!

The title is "Worthless Men: Vulnerable Warriors in the Hebrew Bible and Beyond".

Sara Järlemyr, my doctoral student, just about to begin her public doctoral defense, with Martti Nissinen (Helsinki) as her public examiner ("opponent")!

Me talking about Afro-Asiatic: youtube.com/watch?v=AWTFcx…

Ugaritic word of the day: Qẓ /qēẓu/, "summer". Cf. Hebrew qayiṣ ("summer") and Arabic qayẓ- ("summer heat"). Aramaic has an early (OA) form with Geers'-dissimilation of the emphatics: kyṣʾ (note the ṣ here, which prob. denotes an interdental) and a later form qyṭ(ʾ).

@urloverodrigues @spectrumarvel Yes.

@spectrumarvel season 4,5 and 7 are just the best material marvel has ever produced

Which is the best Season of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.?

My personal guess for the pronunciation of the Ugaritic word in IPA: [q'e:θˤ'u] or [qe:θˤ'u].

Egyptian word of the day: Rḫ.kwj ("I know") - the form in the stative, one of the generally best-preserved Proto-Afro-Asiatic forms, in the 1 sg, in -kw(j), cognate with Akkadian -āku, and ultimately, the Arabic and Hebrew 1sg perfects in -tu and -tî (after much transformation).

Ugaritic word of the day: b-š-r ("to deliver good news"). (cf. Hebrew biśśēr).

Monographing. Baal is not happy.

... and the article by dad and me is here: academia.edu/89823494/Water…

The quoting article is this one: link.springer.com/article/10.118…

This reference to the article my father Örjan Wikander and yours truly wrote together about water-milling in the HB and Mishnaic/Talmudic literature and Levantine archaeology made me very happy:

Just mentioned both Susanowo and various Masonica in a manuscript.

4, 5 and 7. God tier.