Tuesday, November 30, 2004

DR. MARILYN J. LUNDBERG, whom I saw last week in San Antonio, has a cool career as an Old Testament scholar. Hear all about it on a KCLA "mycoolcareer.com" webcast from August, 2003. She is associated with the West Semitic Research Project and Inscriptifact, both of which have been mentioned on PaleoJudaica. This is a very cool introduction for nonspecialists to the fields of Hebrew Bible and ancient Northwest Semitic epigraphy, one of the best I've encountered. It contains reflections on her doctoral disseration about the structure of the YHWH speeches in Job; advice to students on preparing to be a scholar; and a story about photographing pre-Mosaic inscriptions on a cliff in Egypt which involved a military convoy and a snakebite kit. Oh - and there's Indiana Jones music too.

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