Most interesting indeed, your experiences with israelis, that modern hebrew
language fluency does not convey ancient hebrew language comprehension.
regards,
fred burlingame
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:35 PM, K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com> wrote:
> Fred:
>
> 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.
>
> Karl W. Randolph.
>