Charles Halton

Update on the Free M.A. in Biblical Studies

I have received several emails from people wanting me to send them a diploma when they are done listening to the lectures that I listed here.  I was joking when I wrote this because this is a completely unaccredited, informal, unsupervised, little thing I slapped together.  Please do not put “awilum.com M.A. in Biblical Studies” on your CV.  I am not a degree granting institution–I am just a guy with a blog.  The “M.A.” was intended for personal edification only–please contact a college, seminary, or university if you would like a real degree.

Charles Halton

In Memoriam, Moshe Greenberg (July 10, 1928-May 16, 2010)

My first exposure to Greenberg’s work was his excellent treatment of the hab/piru published by the American Oriental Society in 1955 and, among many other works, his Anchor Bible commentaries on Ezekiel have been particularly helpful to my research.  He was a fantastic scholar and he will surely be missed.  May his memory be a blessing.

Here are some biographies compiled by Jack Sasson:

At <http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~jtigay/MGbio.doc> is this brief notice
about Moshe Greenberg, who passed away this past Saturday. It was
composed by Jeffrey H. Tigay (University of Pennsylvania). (It is
might be a few years old.)

There is a Wiki treatment for him at
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Greenberg>.

A fuller version is in the Hebrew Wiki, with many links, at
<http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%94_%D7%92%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%92>.

Two essays  “Moshe Greenberg: An Appreciation,” and “Bibliography of
the Writings of Moshe Greenberg,” are printed in _Tehilla le-Moshe.
Biblical and Judaic Studies in Honor of Moshe Greenberg_ (M. Cogan,
B.L. Eichler, and J.H. Tigay, eds., Winona Lake, Indiana:
Eisenbraun’s, 1997).