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Matthew Ansley wrote:.
> I would think that no one person
can learn all the requisite secondary languages, secondary literature, other skills etc. True. But when you consider that the study of
Modern Hebrew both contributes to strengthening your fluency in Biblical Hebrew
and enables you read the secondary literature in MH (Loewenstamm, Cassuto,
Weinfeld, Zakovitch, Kalimi, Japhet, Tov, Rofe, just to name a few), this places
MH higher in the order of preference than Italian, Dutch or French.
And so, as I wrote only half facetiously in my first posting on this
subject, Modern Hebrew has replaced German as the most important Semitic
language.
Sincerely,
Jonathan D. Safren
Dept. of Biblical Studies
Beit Berl
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