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  • From: "Trevor & Julie Peterson" <06peterson AT cua.edu>
  • To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: "Non-Academic" Original Languages?
  • Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 22:14:16 -0500


Peter wrote:

> Serge, do you have any evidence for your assertion that Randall Buth is
> misleading his students? He may not be able to reconstruct biblical
> Hebrew completely and unambiguously, and I think he admits to using some
> modern vocabulary.

Actually, from my inquiry a few months back about what one says after
another sneezes, he made very clear that he tries not to substitute modern
or Mishnaic vocabulary; rather, he tells the students when a scenario arises
for which there is no attested BH that we simply don't know.

Trevor Peterson
CUA/Semitics





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