Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Jim West <jwest AT highland.net>]

At 06:52 PM 1/8/2005, you wrote:

> This is a very good comment. I have many times had discussions with people 
> who want to tell me what my Bible says, when they cannot read a word of 
> it, even after taking some classes in the language. There is a big 
> difference between taking some classes, and having fluency in a language.

Ain't that the truth!  And thanks for sharing this anecdote.  I thought I 
was the only one irritated by dilettantish know it alls.  There's nothing 
more profoundly ignorant than quoting someone like Strong's and pretending 
that one knows a biblical language while never having taken the time to 
seriously study it.  And the remarkable thing is that such folk will argue 
with you till they are blue in the face. Ugh.

Jim


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