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Look it up!: The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (2 Vol. Set; Thumb Indexed Edition)

Posted in denkschrift, reseña, rrythmia, tagged , on August 27, 2007| Leave a Comment »

While finishing up a PhD at Cambridge and preparing to move back to my country of origin, one of the small but solid griefs of that process was saying goodbye to the familiar Oxford English Dictionary, whose massive volumes lay 13 steps to the right of my desk in Cambridge’s Tyndale House Library. In the three and a half years before that parting, I must have worn a rut in the carpeting during my frequent and satisfying sallies to the OED for help, rescue, and—occasionally—delightful surprise. (more…)

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In all things, be men: Paul T. Coughlin, No More Christian Nice Guy: When Being Nice—Instead of Good—Hurts Men, Women And Children

Posted in clarity, denkschrift, paterfamilias, reseña, tagged , , on August 27, 2007| Leave a Comment »

Paul Coughlin’s treatise on masculinity for Christian men is unsubtle in tone. His argument is repetitive. His research is narrow and clichéd. He wears his heart too much on his sleeve.

All in all, a very worthwhile book. (more…)

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like a melted cheese sandwich: Catherine E. Love, Collins Pocket Italian Dictionary British Edition

Posted in denkschrift, reseña, tagged , , on August 23, 2007| Leave a Comment »

When you bought this sturdy little pocket dictionary, you didn’t order salmon and a nice Chardonnay.

You ordered a Wendy’s burger with fries and skip the super-sizing. (more…)

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Good for glossing: HarperCollins Spanish College Dictionary 5th Edition (Harpercollins College Dictionaries)

Posted in denkschrift, reseña, tagged , , on August 23, 2007| Leave a Comment »

I use the Harper Collins Spanish College Dictionary on my desktop for finding quick glosses when I’m translating from Spanish to English or vice versa and need a quick memory jog. It’s not a particularly complex dictionary and so it’s great for this purpose. (more…)

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Like duct tape: Langenscheidt’s Compact French Dictionary: French-English English-French (Langenscheidt Compact Dictionaries)

Posted in denkschrift, reseña, tagged , , on August 23, 2007| Leave a Comment »

The signature yellow Langenscheidt dictionaries are like duct tape for students and others who need to have a tough, mobile, dependable bilingual dictionary that sticks to the basics without being primitive.

It meets the need in French as well as it does in German and other mainstream academic languages. (more…)

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Sooner or later, Latin comes t’ git ya’. ‘Better be prepared: D.P. Simpson, Cassell’s Latin Dictionary. Latin-English, English-Latin

Posted in denkschrift, reseña, tagged , , on August 23, 2007| Leave a Comment »

Latin is everywhere.

Maybe your Roman Catholic grandma has a mysterious phrase she repeats all the time. Perhaps you’re an academic reader and you keep stumbling upon expessions like ‘inter alia’, ‘et cetera’, ‘ibid’, ‘pace’, and the like. It’s possible you’ve stood and stared up at the semi-compelling statue in your town square, scratched your head, and told yourself the thing would be completely compelling if you had a clue what the Latin inscription on its base was rattling on about. (more…)

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Gordon Wenham, ‘Descifrando el código bíblico’; traducido por David Baer

Posted in denkschrift, tagged , on August 23, 2007| 1 Comment »

Durante el transcurso de este mes, un libro sobre el texto hebreo del Antiguo Testamento ha ocupado el primer lugar de la lista de los libros más vendidos en Gran Bretania. El éxito extraordinario de El Código Bíblico, por Michael Drosnin, requiere una explicación. (more…)

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Now we’re talkin’!: Reuben Alcalay, Complete English-Hebrew Dictionary, New Enlarged Edition

Posted in denkschrift, reseña on August 22, 2007| Leave a Comment »

Full product information for this item, together with my review, my ranking of the product, and any reader comments, can be found at http://www.amazon.com.

As a poor graduate student, I once inquired of the principal lecturer in modern Hebrew whether I could get away with snagging a mid-priced Hebrew-English dictionary.

I will never forget the condescending—not to say disdainful—look with which she said, ‘Well, I suppose you could … But as a PhD student in Hebrew, I can’t imagine that you can get away without owning the Alcalay.’ (more…)

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Is there a Christian mind?: Books and Culture. A Christian Review

Posted in denkschrift, reseña, tagged , on August 22, 2007| Leave a Comment »

One of American evangelicalism’s sympathetic critics once asked whether there is such a thing as a Christian mind. For all sorts of reasons—some more than justified—questioners, skeptics, and malnourished pilgrims have produced negative responses to the query.

But perhaps things are better than all that. (more…)

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Be da’ man: John Eldredge, Wild at Heart. Discovering the Secret of a Man’s Soul

Posted in denkschrift, paterfamilias, reseña on August 22, 2007| Leave a Comment »

Full product information for this item, together with my review, my ranking of the product, and any reader comments, can be found at http://www.amazon.com.

John Eldredge launched a new phase of the Christian men’s movement with his 2001 publication of Wild at Heart. (more…)

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