Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Arne Halbakken <1stluth AT smig.net>]

A. Philip Brown II <apbrown2 AT prodigy.net> wrote on 15 Jan 2005:

>  It will be paper. I'm 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 don't know.
>  That targeted audience is, even at a conservative estimate, easily 60% of
>  all students who take 1 or more years of Hebrew.


R. Christopher Heard <Christopher.Heard AT pepperdine.edu> responded on 
18 Jan 2005:

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


Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org> responded on 18 Jan 2005:

>  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.


In an article by C. H. J. van der Merwe entitled "Rethinking Hebrew 
Instruction" 
<http://www.logos.com/academic/casestudies/rethinking_hebrew>, he 
writes:

>  In South Africa all pastors of the Dutch Reformed Churches have to 
> take two years of Greek and > Hebrew (about 280 hours). It is an 
> established but less than popular tradition. A 1983 study
>  showed that, on average, only 31% of pastors in the denomination 
> read their Hebrew Bible
>  regularly.

After some changes in pedagogy and introducing computer tools, he writes:

>  A survey in 2002 revealed that 78% of pastors in the denomination 
> now say that they read the
>  Greek and Hebrew Bible regularly. I believe this state of affairs 
> can be partly (even mainly)
>  attributed to their ability to use electronic libraries like Logos.


While I prefer Accordance over Logos, I think that computer tools may 
facilitate learning and reading Hebrew.

Arne Halbakken
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Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Re: A Reader's Hebrew Old Testament
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On 1/19/05 7:46 AM, "Arne Halbakken" <1stluth AT smig.net> wrote:

> After some changes in pedagogy and introducing computer tools, he writes:
>
> >  A survey in 2002 revealed that 78% of pastors in the denomination
> > now say that they read the
> >  Greek and Hebrew Bible regularly. I believe this state of affairs
> > can be partly (even mainly)
> >  attributed to their ability to use electronic libraries like Logos.
>
>
> While I prefer Accordance over Logos, I think that computer tools may
> facilitate learning and reading Hebrew.
>
> Arne Halbakken

After 15 years of using e-tools for biblical studies I still prefer to read
Greek on the printed page but when it comes to Hebrew I am a slave to
Accordance. Why? Because I have never mastered the morphology sufficiently
or acquired extensive vocabulary. On the first pass through a difficult text
the e-tools get you up and running faster but once the obscure lexical and
morphological problems are sorted out I prefer to go back to the printed
page. I don't think you really experience "reading" a text when you are
pointing and clicking to all these hyper links.

I agree that a print version of "A Reader's Hebrew Old Testament" sounds
like a project that would have made more sense prior to 1980. I never
purchased the similar book(s) for the Greek NT.

greetings,
Clay Bartholomew