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[MT <mahontay AT yahoo.com>]

For someone who has a basic understanding of Hebrew, what would be a good 
work to take him to the next level?  I would appreciate your help.  
Cordially, Mark Trzasko
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Mark:

What I did was to get an analytical lexicon, a regular dictionary, then just
start reading at Genesis through Exodus through to the end of the book. Then
go back to Genesis. But then the only reason I learned Hebrew was to read
Tanakh, and that is what I have done.

For what I did, learning Hebrew was a means to an end, not the end itself.

If your reason for further study of Hebrew is for linguistic analysis, then
I am not the person to ask. However, I have noticed that there are people
who go off studying Mishnaic Hebrew, modern Israeli, Arabic, Aramaic, etc.
and never really master Biblical Hebrew.

Karl W. Randolph.

On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 7:47 AM, MT <mahontay AT yahoo.com> wrote:

> For someone who has a basic understanding of Hebrew, what would be a good
> work to take him to the next level?  I would appreciate your help.
> Cordially, Mark Trzasko
>