Zechariah... phew! A tricky book. First things first: how to memorise the order of the visions: סוסים קרנות חבל-מדה יהושע מנורה רשעה מרכבות First letters: סק חי מורם 'Sackcloth. Alive. Raised up'. Not a bad summary of chapters 1-8 to the exiles: Repent! Live! Be raised up!

In light of recent chat here about memorising #Psalm93, here it is from one of the most important #Bible #manuscripts from the Babylonian #masoretic tradition: the Berlin Codex. And here's a key, in case it's helpful: Masora - red Accents - blue Vowels - black dagesh - green

I'm working from a new/the only coffee shop in #Northstowe today. There are several other people with laptops, tapping away, a mums and tots group in a room upstairs, more mums chatting away downstairs. A few dogs (with owners). It's very pleasant =) #wouldrecommend.

Possibly my favourite commentator. He's SO sensitive to the nuances of the text - especially poetic imagery. DYK: he didn't write anything until he was 50! ...But then, when he first put quill to parchment, he wrote the most influential Hebrew grammar for the next 500 years...

Lovely detail: The scribe was aiming to say 'we stayed with them 7 days'. They had a choice of two prepositions for the 'with them' part: 'ammehon or gabbehon. But they got mixed up and wrote something in between: gammehon. A mistake from 1500 years ago, but #canrelate!