start with Genesis within a few weeks of starting first year class,_______________________________________________
starting
with the first chapter. Get the students used to reading the text,
teaching
the grammar along with the text. Even though I attended one year of
college
Hebrew, that is basically how I learned Hebrew. I mean, really learned
Hebrew, how it is really used instead of the way it was presented in
class.
Karl W. Randolph.
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Barry <nebarry AT verizon.net> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "K Randolph" <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
> To: "B-Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 7:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Ruth
>
>
> > As for “first year lies” (a phrase I to which I was introduced on
> this list, I don’t remember who taught it to me), I was taught that
Hebrew
> followed certain grammar, syntax and spelling rules, and all the
> examples
in
> the text books followed those rules. Later, when I started reading
> Tanakh
> for myself, cover to cover, I was in for a shock—those rules were often
> violated. I had to learn a new set of rules to fit the data before my
eyes.
> >
> > My criticism in this particular example (not by any means for
> anything with which I disagree) was that you seem to insist that Hebrew
> follow those rules as taught in first year class, rather than how the
> language is actually used in Tanakh.
>
> Beginning grammars always present an ideal version of the languages for
> didactic purposes, usually using particular authors. For beginning
> Latin
> it's Caesar and Cicero with a dash of Vergil for flavor. For beginning
> (Classical) Greek it's usually Xenephon and Plato. What beginning
grammars
> can't communicate is the licence that individual authors use with the
> languages. But this freedom is usually stylistic, lexical selection,
> idiomatic phrases. You never see violation of basic grammar, such as
> subject verb agreement, and forth.
>
> So, what are the models for the ideal grammer of biblical hebrews.
>
> N.E. Barry Hofstetter
> Classics and Bible Instructor, TAA
> http://www.theamericanacademy.net
> (2010 Savatori Excellence in Education Winner)
> Mentor, TNARS
> http://www.tnars.net
>
> http://my.opera.com/barryhofstetter/blog
> http://mysite.verizon.net/nebarry
>
>
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