Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

b-hebrew - [b-hebrew] Vocabulary focal points

b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: Biblical Hebrew Forum

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: Randall Buth <randallbuth AT gmail.com>
  • To: Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Vocabulary focal points
  • Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 13:05:15 +0200

Looking at the BH vocabulary cards raises a pedagogical question for
students--

should a student learn real words like
hishkim/yashkim le-hashkim (to rise early, be early, in the morning)
or
should they focus on roots like
sh.k.m. (no attested meaning for qal, [?? 'to carry on shoulder' ??])

Pedagogical studies would recommend learning to use items without
adding an extra 'mental calculation' [for 'hif`ilizing roots'-whatever that
would be], and etymologizing for synchronic semantics is also to be
discouraged. Efficient living language courses with the 'Semitic root
system' also focus on real words: Arabic, both modern dialectical and
'standard written', modern Hebrew, Syriac, Amharic.

These considerations lead me to think that students should
learn to relate first to
hishkim/yashkim le-hashkim.
And that is obviously the way children would have had to learn BH in
antiquity.

Randall Buth


--
Randall Buth, PhD
www.biblicalulpan.org
randallbuth AT gmail.com
Biblical Language Center
Learn Easily - Progress Further - Remember for Life




Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page