Exciting news!

A few weeks ago, one of my papers was accepted for publication by the Jewish Bible Quarterly! It's a paper on Hoham, king of Chevron (Hebron) during the time of the Israelite conquest of Canaan in Sefer Yehoshua. Yep, my favorite: Writing about details in Tanach no one thinks about twice.

In this case, the most anyone's done is suggest etymologies for his name. One scholar suggested an Anatolian etymology for his name, from "ẖuẖ(ẖ)a", meaning ‘grandfather’, with an added Hebrew suffix of "(-a)m". In the paper I suggest a biblically-rooted etymology, which connects him to various giants mentioned in other books of Tanach, and then propose some background for this otherwise obscure figure. I won't spoil much, but I'll definitely link it here once it goes online (should be in about half a year)!

In other news, tomorrow I'll be delivering a lecture on my Levitical Cities paper. I'm super nervous about it. But, in other other news, a non-Tanachic paper of mine may also be accepted for publication after I complete some necessary revisions. That's really exciting, because I waited nearly a year and a half for a response from the journal (!!!).

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  1. So I guess Hoham will no longer be ho-hum. :)

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    1. Haha! But, I imagine there are people who will read the paper and go "Yeah, so?". During the review process I was informed that I hadn't argued well enough in the first draft why Hoham stood out more than the other four kings in that chapter. So I refined my arguments for the second draft. But I suspect some will remain unconvinced. That's okay, you can't win 'em all.

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