Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Heard, Christopher" <Christopher.Heard AT pepperdine.edu>]

On 1/15/05 9:12 AM, "A. Philip Brown II" <apbrown2 AT prodigy.net> wrote:
> It will be paper. I¹m not targeting in-class students so much as those who
> have completed a year or more of Hebrew and want to read their OT regularly,
> but are unwilling to take the time to look up all the words they don¹t know.
> That targeted audience is, even at a conservative estimate, easily 60% of
> all students who take 1 or more years of Hebrew.

Philip,

First, I have to admit that I have a bit of a _philosophical_ problem with
this approach. Why play to readers' laziness?

Second, doesn't the Armstrong-Busby-Carr "Reader's Lexicon" or whatever it's
called do exactly this? It's on my shelf, but (a) I'm at home and (b)
haven't looked at the volume in years. But as I recall, Armstrong-Busby-Carr
provides a verse-by-verse glossing (without parsing) of every word in the
Hebrew Bible under a certain frequency.

Third, how big would this monster be? The Armstrong-Busby-Carr volume, which
presents only the verse numbers and the vocabulary, not the complete text,
is a thick volume ....

Chris

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