Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Peter Kirk" <peterkirk AT ozemail.com.au>]

Thank you, Samuel. I’m glad of some support!

Peter Kirk
peter.r.kirk AT ntlworld.com
http://web.onetel.net.uk/~peterkirk/
  
-----Original Message-----
From: Samuel Arnet [mailto:samuel.arnet AT gmx.ch] 
Sent: 21 January 2003 18:29
To: Billy Evans; Charles David Isbell; Peter Kirk; Biblical Hebrew
Subject: RE: Transliteration Schemes

When I began to learn Ancient Hebrew I also composed a basic Hebrew
vocabulary for my own use, transcribing every single Hebrew word with
the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). It was only like this that I
managed to memorize the words.
 
As soon as I mastered reading Hebrew, however, I ignored the IPA; but
for learning purposes I believe it is highly useful.
 
Samuel Arnet
 
I recently wrote a phonological vocabulary
for Hebrew Students (mainly for rabbinic students) since knowing the
choices
the reader can see when he/she reads the words in a text is an
imperative in
this exegetical tradition.  Of course, it enables one to fly in the
BHS.  I
know this since the ancient near east students remained first grade
types
during our four years at HUC.  Anyway, I originally composed this list
for
my own slow learning. I used to master every choice a rabbi might use
when
attempting to see a word of the Torah from all sides.   Zondervan was
going
to publish it but I backed away due to health problems and now Baker
wants
to look at it.  Question to the list:  Is learning Hebrew this well
worth
the time to most people who would use Hebrew?  Frankly I thought it made
learning faster for me, but we have already seen I must be a different
kind
of learner if my first graders can learn quicker than me.

Thanks for any in
-- 
William "Billy" J Evans Jr-Nashville
Doctorate Rabbinics, Dead Sea Scrolls, Targums at Hebrew Union College
Doctorate in NT at University of So. Africa
put

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