Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Moshe Shulman <mshulman AT ix.netcom.com>]

At 06:57 PM 1/8/2005 -0500, Jim West wrote:
> 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 don't get started by naming Strong's. :) I have had people quote me 5 
different meanings in Strong's and then decide which one they think it 
means, with the nuance that English has for the word. They totally forget 
that a word in Hebrew has it's own nuances that do not correspond to the 
word that is used in English. (BTW I once had a discussion with an Arabic 
speaker, and that was great since the nuances and words are similar.)

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