Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Hedrick Gary <GaryH AT cjfm.org>]

Karl, WTS is Westminster Theological Seminary. J. Alan Groves was an esteemed 
Hebrew professor there. Check it out:

http://www.wts.edu/resources/alangroves/grovesprojects.html

Gary Hedrick
San Antonio, TX

On Feb 8, 2010, at 11:55 PM, K Randolph wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 7:39 AM, nebarry AT verizon.net 
> <nebarry AT verizon.net>wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> From: K Randolph kwrandolph AT gmail.com
>> Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:32:24 -0800
>> 
>> I have given some thought on how I would teach Biblical Hebrew, were I to
>> be
>> a professor. While I would make use of some of the concepts known to people
>> learning Hebrew as a second language, such as teaching a certain amount of
>> grammar, my main goal would be reading fluency; “thru analysis and root
>> processing” only to be later, much later if ever. And I would admit to
>> students that there are gaps in our knowledge of Biblical Hebrew.<<
>> 
>> I had beginning Hebrew from Al Groves at WTS.  He certainly didn't ignore
>> "analysis and root processing," but he also had us reading out of Judges by
>> the third or fourth week of class.  For him it was a both/and, not an
>> either/or, and I have always appreciated his approach.
>> 
>> Barry
>> 
>> You can accuse me of overstating the case. It is impossible to excise
> “analysis and root processing” totally from reading. After all, one needs to
> recognize what forms he is reading. And recognizing roots helps understand
> the vocabulary. (Though one needs to be careful about false attributions to
> roots.) What I am looking at is what would be my main theme in teaching? For
> example, most professors I know of would blanch at the idea of encouraging
> their students to use an analytical lexicon for class work. But I would
> rather my students “cheating” but getting into the text, than becoming
> bogged down and frustrated doing an analysis for which they are not
> prepared. Therefore I would develop a curriculum concentrating on reading
> for understanding rather than specifically testing for linguistic ana
> 
> By the way, what is WTS?
> 
> Karl W. Randolph.
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