welcome . . .

A hearty welcome to Brooke Lester who has recently joined the blogging world. His blog title, Anumma, is difficult to ignore being Akkadian and all (an absolutely fascinating word given its function as a discourse marker, primarily in not a few OB letters in which it explicitly signals [and delays] the crux of the speaker's reason for communication thereby heightening the anticipation [i.e., "Ladies and Gentlemen, if you would direct your attention to the center stage for the main event" . . . {drum roll} . . . ] . . . more on discourse markers in the days ahead . . . ). One wonders how much, if any Akkadian he'll blog about since he touts himself as primarily a Hebrew Bible guy. Brooke's a recent Princeton grad doing the whole adjunct thing at a couple places in Illinois . . . looking forward to his insights into that book most of us study . . .

Welcome, Brooke, to blogging and the elite fraternity of Mesopotamian language blog-names . . .