Messiah: Lost in translation 2016
Yet another wave of violence has reared its ugly head in Israel. I watch the news from my home in Jerusalem, horrified by pictures of a 13-year old child stabbing another child, secure in his belief that this act of violence will bring him closer to heaven. I follow never-ending debates on print and electronic […]
Digging Into The Exodus Story 2015
Galit Ben Tovel (Dayan), who teaches at IDC Herzliya in Israel, has a Ph.D. in Egyptology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is a frequent writer and lecturer on anthropological proof that Israelite slaves lived and worked in ancient Egypt — a relevant topic with the approach of Passover. The Jewish Week interviewed her by email. […]
Text Like An Egyptian 2010
A new global language is being developed, inspired by “new media,” the surge in technology and the ubiquity of new symbols and images that have replaced traditional words. This language is forming as the market demands it, the consumer craves it and will inevitably affect traditional language use as we know it. It is a […]
Text like an Egyptian 2010
Every time one of my teenage daughters uses the icons and initialisms to express her thoughts, she is reviving the ancient Egyptian language system based on icons, pictures, and sounds. The Huffington PostPublished : 2010 Contributor: Dr. Galit Ben Tovel (Dayan) Link to: HUFFPOST Last week, I received a text message from my 13-year-old daughter […]