Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Jerry Shepherd" <jerry.shepherd AT taylor-edu.ca>]

Well said, Jim.  I would add that the other danger is that because a
student has a had a year of Greek and/or Hebrew, they may now feel
qualified to make independent novel suggestions as to what the
Greek/Hebrew "really says."  In the language classes that I teach at
seminary I always make a point of telling students (with a smiley face)
that the goal is not to make them independent exegetes, but to keep them
making ridiculously stupid mistakes.

Jerry

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jim West [mailto:jwest AT highland.net] 
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 1:29 PM
To: Jerry Shepherd
Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: RE: [b-hebrew] Re: Usage of Various Bible Translations

At 03:14 PM 1/7/2005, you wrote:
>Chuck,
>I have less and less confidence
>that in many churches the leadership is able to make the distinctions.
>
>Jerry

Even when I was in Seminary (late 80's) Greek and Hebrew were no longer 
required for MDiv students.  A few of us intrepid souls took both and
were 
viewed as oddities.  Many a time some classmate or other denounced the 
"waste of time" that such study entailed.  My pat response was, "if the 
Bible is the text you preach from, and you use a translation, you are 
simply taking someone else's word for what it says".

Church leaders today are, by and large, utterly ignorant of the bible
and 
what it says.  They get their sermons from idiotic sermon books because 
they cant think for themselves.  So it shouldn't surprise any of us that

lay people have no clue and run to read horrid versions.

Jim



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