To: "'b-hebrew'" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: RE: Required languages for Graduate Study
Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 21:54:05 -0700
> I studied 3 years of German when I was in high school and 1 year at uni, so
> I can work it out with a bit of effort and lots of dictionary flicking.
>
> However, the German I studied was conversational German, not theological
> German. Is there much difference between the two? Is there a course or book
> designed specifically to teach students to read theological German?
I used J. D. Manton, "Introduction to Theological German"
published by Eerdmans. It stresses the vocabulary used in
theological works and has readings from the German Bible as well
as several authors including Barth, Bultmann and several others.