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Quick Bug Fix on AramaicNT.org

Aramaic Blog, News
A worm-eaten Arabic manuscript.
I found a bug!… erm… A lot of them…. well, crap.

So I noticed that the blogger redirects weren’t working properly anymore for some reason – bringing folks from the old URLs to the home page and leaving them there without any clue as to where to find the articles they were after.

That should be fixed now. 🙂

Peace,
-Steve

So Where Have I Been?

Aramaic Blog, News, Uncategorized, ,

So yeah, the past year has been a bit all over the place, and I have not really had the time to properly update AramaicNT.org. I’ve been dealing with a new house, a new son (Ozzie, our 4th kid), and a new tenure-track position in the Computer Science Department at Raritan Valley. Exciting stuff. 🙂

Now that some of that is settling (although we’re still not quite unpacked despite being here for a few months…) I’m hoping to focus some more on some Aramaic-related things, such as:

  • My Galilean Aramaic grammar that I’ve been working on for God-knows-how-long. GlossaHouse has expressed interest in publishing it – provided I can force myself to finish it without endless just-one-more-revision-itis.
  • Getting the third series of Aramaic Lord’s Prayer Bracelets off the ground. My sister and I are having this series cast by Danforth Pewter so we can keep up with demand, and for those who want something more rugged than fine pewter, some other options in stainless steel and leather are being spearheaded by my other half.
  • Considering options for some Aramaic-related multimedia and research projects with students over at RVCC (lexical databasing for Galilean, interactive learning tools, etc.).

So you’ll hopefully see some more of me on here soon. 🙂

Peace,
-Steve

Working on the Daily Office

Aramaic Blog, Galilean, News

Neofiti-Example

Tomorrow morning I’ll be at in the Ross Room at Christ Church New Brunswick from 10 AM to noon (as I usually am) working on various Aramaic-related things.

This week the focus is on translating some of the services of the Daily Office into Galilean, making use of Targum Neofiti and the Christian Palestinian Aramaic Lectionary as source material.

If anyone wants to drop in, send me a message or leave a comment here so I’ll be expecting you. (The office will be closed.)

Peace,
-Steve