RonMaimon

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Re: "Farm Boy"

Re: the "farmboy" message. No, I'm no farm boy. I just hung out with a bunch of farm girls in high school, and attended county fairs religiously. But by rural standards I'm a city slicker because of my time in cities before that. I can both lead a steer to water and make it drink, but I would be lost trying to run a farm. You just pick up terms here and there in a world where every time it rains everybody starts speculating about how it's going to affect the corn. And no, I'm not a biblical scholar at a college, but I'm flattered you'd think so. I don't even have a degree in the field. Just a personal interest, some Israeli friends, a bunch of books, and a few years of electives in modern Hebrew, Talmud, and biblical studies a while back. Since then, well, some people obsessively learn Star Wars trivia; I do the Bible. Given that half the world at least nominally belongs to a religion that relies in some way on the Tenach, it seems like it would be a good thing to try and learn the original texts that everyone's arguing about. It beats watching TV or playing video games. I do know a few professors, though. Lately I've been proofreading a forthcoming dictionary of biblical Hebrew and an economic/legal book. If you volunteer to proofread, it's fairly easy to get access to academic brains to pick, and you get the chance to do close reading of interesting works that aren't out yet. So I'm not an academic, but the longer I've worked at it the more sympathetic I am to the mainstream academic work that's been done in biblical studies. Alephb (talk) 01:07, 12 August 2017 (UTC)

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