Cc: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
Subject: OFF TOPIC Modern Hebrew question
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 12:21:56 -0400
shalom Trevor,
Good point, below, and you said, not I.
>(I know--I should have
>learned Modern Hebrew by now,
emet. `alexa haya la`asot ken.
>but unfortunately it's not required for my
>program, and I don't have the time to do extra stuff right now.)<
A distinguished professor at Hebrew U once made the comment that
the whole field suffers for lack of fluent control of the language(s).
It's hard for a school to require something at a PhD level that would
naturally have been expected in the first two-three years of a first
degree.