Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>]

Dear Dean:

What are your priorities? What is that you most want to read?

For me, the greatest importance was to read Tenakh in the original, fueled 
further by the fact that Hebrew was the least known of the three languages 
that you list. Hence I concentrated on Hebrew.

The three languages you list, Hebrew, Aramaic and Arabic, are cognate 
languages. That means that they are recognizably from the same original 
language, but over time they have changed, much like French, Spanish and 
Rumanian are recognizably from Latin, though today those languages are so far 
apart that speakers from each language cannot understand each other.

So what do you most want to read? That should define your goal.

Karl W. Randolph.

----- Original Message -----
From: Dean Young <Dean.Young AT CDA.CenterPartners.com>
> Here it is,
> 
> I'm trying to learn Hebrew and have slowed down a little bit lately due to
> some priority shifts, but i do enjoy reading the posts on the forum and i'm
> sure they'll make sense to me someday, but i wanted to pose a question, I
> ran across Aramaic as well and kind of started learning that a little on the
> side and it was really interesting...however, I was wondering which would be
> beneficial to learn first, or that might aid in learning the other?
> 
> 
> My other question is how closely related is Aramaic and Arabic? and hebrew?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> Dean Young
-- 
__________________________________________________________
Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com
http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup

CareerBuilder.com has over 400,000 jobs. Be smarter about your job search
http://corp.mail.com/careers