Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Michael Hildenbrand <hildenbr AT Haas.Berkeley.EDU>]

When I studied with Jacob Milgrom, one of the questions he would ask us is
"why did you translate that word that way?"  If the student said "because
that was what the dictionary said," he would answer "how do you know that
the dictionary is right?"

Michael Hildenbrand

 On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Ray Clendenen wrote:

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> Ray Clendenen@BSSBNOTES
> 03/30/2000 07:42 AM
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> When I studied 2nd year Hebrew with Bruce Waltke, we jokingly referred to
> the course sometimes as "beyond BDB" because he was always telling us we
> need to go beyond BDB. I understand KB to be the best right now, but it
> hasn't made BDB superfluous. It also should be supplemented by other works
> like David Clines' Dictionary of Classical Hebrew, which is more detailed
> on usage and DSS usage. TDOT etc. should also be consulted. We just can't
> say word X means Y because lexicon Z says so. Nothing or nobody is perfect.
> Ray Clendenen
> Broadman & Holman
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