On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 4:30 PM, fred burlingame <tensorpath AT gmail.com>wrote:
>
> Your comment in your paragraph 2 is most interesting. I thought that a
> person raised and trained in the hebrew language spoken in israel today,
> cannot, absent special additional training, understand a reading of the
> torah? Am I incorrect in this conclusion?
>
> …
> Is that true for the average college educated person in israel who has
> never
> read the torah? Can she understand the torah being read to her for the
> first
> time at say age 21? ... Or does such a person exist?
>
> Thanks for your comments.
>
> regards,
>
> fred burlingame
That is a question I asked specifically of Israelis I met at technical
conferences, college educated, but in fields other than Bible, and their
reactions were that they found Tanakh difficult to understand, or often not
understood at all.