Biblical Hebrew Forum

[dwashbur AT nyx.net]

On 5 Feb 2010 at 9:41, K Randolph wrote:

> 
> I would not waste my time learning modern Hebrew: it is a
> different
> language, with a different grammar and many words have different
> meanings.
> If you learned modern Hebrew first, then you would have to unlearn a
> lot of
> stuff in order to become really fluent in Biblical Hebrew.

Agreed.  Learning modern Hebrew to understand biblical Hebrew is like 
learning modern 
English in order to understand Beowulf.  The only reason I can see for 
learning modern 
Hebrew is to interact with some of the literature on biblical Hebrew that's 
written in MH.  But 
get a solid grasp of biblical Hebrew first so it's not overly confusing.

Dave Washburn

http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur