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  • From: "Lisbeth S. Fried" <lizfried AT umich.edu>
  • To: "B Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: Question: Off topic? Why study
  • Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 13:51:56 -0500


My advisor, Baruch Levine, said once that
reading the bible in translation is like kissing
your lover through a sheet.
Liz

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Randall Buth [mailto:ButhFam AT compuserve.com]
> Sent: Thu, March 14, 2002 1:32 PM
> To: Biblical Hebrew
> Cc: Biblical Hebrew
> Subject: re: Question: Off topic? Why study
>
>
> shalom,
>
> Ian Goldsmith katav:
>
> >Whilst I enjoy studying Hebrew very
> >much indeed, I find it difficult to give a reason,
> >when asked, why anyone else should learn Hebrew.
> >
> >I would very much appreciate your encouraging views.
>
> Lot's of answers for lots of audiences.
>
> I saw that Liz mentioned 'wordplays'.
> Yes, plus 1/3 of the Hebrew Bible is poetry, and as everyone
> knows, poetry is not just content, it is content plus form.
>
> Ian mentioned "Hebrew", which opens up more:
> Qumran texts,
> Rabbinic texts.
>
> Fully sifting through a text can only be done in the original.
>
> If people have done that in any language, it's hard to understand
> why they wouldn't understand.
> But
> if people have never done that in any language it would be hard
> to explain "why" in Hebrew. It's called 'close reading' in literary
> circles, and you just can't do that in translation.
>
> blessings,
>
> Randall Buth
> Jerusalem
>
>
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