Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

At 11:58 AM 6/14/2009, you wrote:

I doubt you will find any. There are practical reasons, like 
pronunciation of words. Many sounds like a dagesh on a gimel, which 
were used at one time are not differentiated as they were in the 
past. (I believe the Yemenites still do.)

More practically, in real Biblical Hebrew, how could a student say 
'The dog ate my homework' or the teacher, 'I left my notes for the 
lecture on the bus.'  The vocabulary is quite limited. Also the 
limited tenses, might make conversation a bit difficult.

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Randall Buth" <randallbuth AT gmail.com>
> To: "Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2009 5:19 AM
> Subject: [b-hebrew] Survey Question about use of Biblical Hebrew in class
>
>
> > A survey question.
> >
> > How many on this list are learning Biblical Hebrew in a spoken BH 
> classroom?
> >
> > If not, is this because
> >
> > 1. a belief that non-spoken methods are more efficient.
> >
> > 2. for practical reasons, a spoken BH class is not available for you.
> >
> > 3. a belief that BH is special/dead and shouldn't be spoken as a class
> language.
> >


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