Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Randall Buth <ButhFam AT compuserve.com>]

shalom Trevor, 

Good point, below, and you said, not I.

>(I know--I should have
>learned Modern Hebrew by now, 

emet. `alexa haya la`asot ken.

>but unfortunately it's not required for my
>program, and I don't have the time to do extra stuff right now.)<

A distinguished professor at Hebrew U once made the comment that 
the whole field suffers for lack of fluent control of the language(s).
It's hard for a school to require something at a PhD level that would 
naturally have been expected in the first two-three years of a first
degree.

blessings,

Randall Buth,
Jerusalem