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Mini Quiz: Biblical or Modern Hebrew

In my last post, I posted a video clip of one of my class sessions for beginning biblical Hebrew. One of the accusations sometimes leveled at us who try to teach using Communicative Language Teaching is that we are not using/teaching biblical Hebrew but modern Hebrew. While it is true that "slip-ups" are possible, generally [...]

By Brian Schultz|2017-06-12T21:31:37-07:00September 30th, 2011|ancient language acquisition, Biblical Hebrew, biblical language fluency, Hebrew alive, Hebrew as second language, modern Hebrew, second language acquisition|7 Comments

Why study biblical languages?

First Things, published by The Institute on Religion and Public Life, an inter-religious, nonpartisan research and education institute whose purpose is to advance a religiously informed public philosophy for the ordering of society, just posted an article entitled "Why study biblical languages?" In the post, the author Nicholas Frankovich highlights the difference between savoir and [...]

By Brian Schultz|2017-06-12T21:31:40-07:00July 20th, 2011|ancient Greek, ancient language acquisition, Biblical Hebrew|Comments Off

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Mini Quiz: Biblical or Modern Hebrew

Why study biblical languages?

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