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Reflections on Leaving Germany (part. I) – A Short Essay

כ״ח באדר ה׳תשפ״א (March 12, 2021) James M. Tucker Leave a comment

In a few short weeks, my family and I are leaving Germany. We moved to Germany in 2016, so that…

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Posted in: Toronto Filed under: Expat Life, German, Second Language Acquisition, Toronto

A Note on Cognitive Semantics and Categories

כ׳ באדר ה׳תשפ״א (March 4, 2021) James M. Tucker Leave a comment

Since 2012, I have been reading and tracking the developments in the field of cognitive linguistics and semantics. It’s a…

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Posted in: Hebrew Lexicography, Semantics Filed under: FrameNet, Lakoff, Lexicography, Linguistics

Textual Criticism Transformed – A Short Explanation of Key Terms

י״ד באדר ה׳תשפ״א (February 26, 2021) James M. Tucker 2 Comments

In a previous post, I described some of the research I carried out for my Master’s Thesis, Incorporating Syntax into…

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Posted in: Septuagint, Textual Criticism Filed under: Material Philology, Philology, Textual Criticism

Doctoral Thesis Completed and Accepted As it Stands

כ״ח בשבט ה׳תשפ״א (February 10, 2021) James M. Tucker Leave a comment

Last month, I had the opportunity to see years of research, writing code, and writing prose reach a stage of…

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Posted in: Status Report Filed under: Community Rule, Dead Sea Scrolls, Digital Humanities, Jewish Studies, Legal Traditions, Material Philology

Textual Criticism Transformed – Variants, Variances, and Variety

י׳ בשבט ה׳תשפ״א (January 23, 2021) James M. Tucker 6 Comments

I began my MA Thesis, “Incorporating Syntax in Theories of Textual Criticism: Preliminary Studies on the Judaean Desert Isaiah Scrolls,”…

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Posted in: Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible Filed under: Ancient Versions, Dead Sea Scrolls, Isaiah, Latin, Linguistics, LXX, Syriac, Talmon, Targumim

Looking forward to 2021

ט״ו בטבת ה׳תשפ״א (December 30, 2020) James M. Tucker Leave a comment

We are all agreed that 2020 was a challenging year. To be sure, we will be affected by this year…

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Posted in: Status Report Filed under: Doctoral Thesis, Ethics in Digital Humanities, Material Reconstruction

On Material Reconstruction: No More Guessing Games

ה׳ במרחשון ה׳תשפ״א (October 23, 2020) James M. Tucker Leave a comment

As I prepare my edition of 1QS+ab for publication, I am creating an apparatus that proposes legitimate reconstructions. By legitimate…

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Posted in: 2D Material Reconstruction Series, Dead Sea Scrolls, Digital Humanities Filed under: 1QSb, QImron, Schriftenmetric

Schriftenmetric – A Digital Humanities Approach to Scroll Reconstruction (Part IV.1)

כ״ד באלול ה׳תש״פ (September 13, 2020) James M. Tucker Leave a comment

In the last post of this series, I began to change gears by introducing a digital humanities approach to philological…

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Posted in: 2D Material Reconstruction Series, Dead Sea Scrolls, Digital Humanities Filed under: Ethics, Palaeography, Research Methods, Schriftenmetric

Ancient Scribal Reading Practices: Did the Tradents of Qumran Read with a Yad?

י״ד באלול ה׳תש״פ (September 3, 2020) James M. Tucker Leave a comment

As one of the earliest manuscripts discovered in the Judaean Desert, the so-called Community Rule has been the subject of…

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Posted in: Dead Sea Scrolls, Judean Desert Scrolls, Rabbinics Filed under: Ancient Reading Practices, Community Rule, Halakha, Midrash, Purity, Scribal Performances

Hebrew Semantics – Reframing it All (with a note on 1QS)

ל׳ באב ה׳תש״פ (August 20, 2020) James M. Tucker Leave a comment

Have you heard someone say, “It’s just a matter of semantics, isn’t?” or “We are just talking semantics, aren’t we?”…

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Posted in: Hebrew Lexicography Filed under: Frame-Semantics, Hebrew Lexicons, Scholarship, Semantics, Wernberg-Møller

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