Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>]

Dear Karl,

> I find that this is an important way to read Tanakh and Biblical Hebrew.
>
> By reading from cover to cover, one:
>
> 1) meets every case that a lexeme is used, not just in selected studies.
>
> 2) gets a feeling for the style of each writer 
> and how that effects each context.
>
> I don’t know how many times I read a verse one 
> way while looking it up in a concordance or a 
> short section, but when I read it in context I 
> realized I had read it incorrectly. I make a 
> point of reading cover to cover (not a study, 
> just reading) as well as reading short sections 
> for studies.

HH: Yes, that's a good thing to do.

                                        Yours,
                                        Harold Holmyard