Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Sameer Yadav <sameer_yadav2 AT yahoo.com>]

I don't see why a printed edition would have to be any
bigger than the average study bible that contains
substantial notes on every page (e.g. Ryrie,
MacArthur).  Bibles such as these  aren't unwieldy in
size, so there's no reason to suspect that a BHS
containing  the suggested notes would be all that much
bigger in size, is there? 

Other than that, the market for it among students in
Semitics programs, seminaries etc. seems just as
viable as Zondervan's "Reader's Greek NT," which has
had even better sales than was at first expected from
what I understand.

- Sameer Yadav

--- Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org> wrote:

> On 18/01/2005 15:48, Heard, Christopher wrote:
> 
> >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?
> >
> >  
> >
> This seems like a strange philosophy, Chris. Do you
> have a philosophical 
> problem with all labour and time saving devices? Do
> you do all your 
> washing by hand? Do you walk everywhere? Just as
> cars and washing 
> machines save time and effort, so does having
> dictionary glosses on the 
> same page rather in a separate book. I could agree
> that it doesn't help 
> students to save them making real effort to learn
> the language, but is 
> it really the best use of their language learning
> time to spend much of 
> it leafing through dictionaries for the right entry?
> 
> My problem with this work is that I see little
> market for it as a large 
> bulk of paper when it can be done more efficiently
> and cheaply with 
> already existing computer tools.
> 
> 
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