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  • From: "Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>
  • To: "Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Leningrad Codex YHWH-Holem
  • Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 17:31:14 -0500

Jason Hare:

To add to your woes, I once found a site with complete instructions on how to
do a Hebrew word study without learning Hebrew: just pick up your copy of
Strongs and …

That was before I found this b-hebrew mailing list. That was not the only
thing I disagreed with on that site.

The way I answer it is to say “Strong was a good Bible scholar and did good
work in making his concordance. However, he was a Bible scholar, not a Hebrew
language scholar. Now looking at this text in Hebrew, it says …” and I have
yet to get a squawk. btw I don’t have a copy of Strongs.

Of course, you could probably jump all over me and my pretentions of
scholarship, in that I studied only one year of Hebrew language dimly
remembered from 30+ years ago and that my predilection for reading the
unpointed text obscures many of the grammatical nuances that a scholar would
expect to recognize.

Keep up the striving for true scholarship. And thanks to b-hebrew for putting
up with me.

Karl W. Randolph.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Hare" <jason AT hareplay.com>

<snip>
>
> All I can say about this is YES! I feel like I'm venting a bit, but people
> need to get over the idea that "if I use Strong, then I don't have to know
> anything about Hebrew/Greek to understand what the Bible says." What a sad
> state we are in. I have come up against this on many occasions personally.
> And I am disheartened every time.
>
> Blessings to you, Peter...
>
> Jason Hare
> Missouri Southern State University
> Joplin, MO
> student of languages
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