Biblical Hebrew Forum

[fred burlingame <tensorpath AT gmail.com>]

Hello Karl:

Thanks for your comments.

Most interesting indeed, your experiences with israelis, that modern hebrew
language fluency does not convey ancient hebrew language comprehension.

regards,

fred burlingame

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:35 PM, K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com> wrote:

> Fred:
>
>  On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 4:30 PM, fred burlingame 
> <tensorpath AT gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> Your comment in your paragraph 2 is most interesting. I thought that a
>> person raised and trained in the hebrew language spoken in israel today,
>> cannot, absent special additional training, understand a reading of the
>> torah? Am I incorrect in this conclusion?
>>
>> …
>> Is that true for the average college educated person in israel who has
>> never
>> read the torah? Can she understand the torah being read to her for the
>> first
>> time at say age 21? ... Or does such a person exist?
>>
>> Thanks for your comments.
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> fred burlingame
>>
>
> That is a question I asked specifically of Israelis I met at technical
> conferences, college educated, but in fields other than Bible, and their
> reactions were that they found Tanakh difficult to understand, or often not
> understood at all.
>
> Karl W. Randolph.
>