Grammars using Disc Anal (was Re: Student of Guthrie)
Paul Zellmer
zellmer at cag.pworld.net.ph
Wed Mar 3 04:52:20 EST 1999
Ray Clendenen wrote:
> Ray Clendenen at BSSBNOTES
> 03/01/99 08:32 AM
>
> As an advocate of textlinguistics/discourse analysis especially for the
> Hebrew BibleI object to your subject heading :). But I would be very
> interested to hear more about the Hebrew text you mention. An intermediate
> Greek text published by B&H is Richard Young, Intermediate NT Greek. For an
> intro text I suggest you look at Learn to Read NT Greek by David A. Black.
> Ray Clendenen
> B&H
> rclende at lifeway.com
Ray,
I didn't catch the purely unintentional results of my attempt at abbreviation
in the subject line until Jim West pointed it out to me in an offline post. As
I responded to Jim, apparently it must have something to do with the tailbone.
;^> Hope at least some of you enjoyed a good laugh.
I also didn't realize that we had so many on the list who are not also on
b-hebrew, yet who have at least some interest in Hebrew studies. Bryan
Rocine's grammar has been mentioned several times on that list, normally not by
Bryan himself.
Jonathan (Ryder), you didn't find _A New Approach to Learning Biblical Hebrew
Using Discourse Analysis_ at Amazon.com because Bryan has been unsuccessful at
finding a publisher. He is doing his own publishing in looseleaf, 8.5 X 11
form. (Copyright date: 1997)
You can contact Bryan at:
B. M. Rocine
Associate Pastor
Living Word Church
6101 Court St. Rd.
Syracuse, NY 13208
315-437-6744(w)
315-479-8267(h)
or e-mail him at 596547 at ican.net
The last info that I had from him still had the price set at $25 including
stateside postage and handling. The book is 429 pp (actually 430) with 21
pages of introductory material. But didn't postage just go up in the States?
So please don't hold him to that!
Although his approach uses a simplified model of the currently accepted
theories of text analysis based on discourse analysis, it *is* a beginning
grammar, so much of the material deals with recognizing the basic forms.
However, his goal in this area is for the student to be able to understand just
enough so that the word can be found in a decent lexicon. All of his study
texts (each lesson has one that is analyzed) and exercises are directly from
the Hebrew scriptures. And, about 20% into the course, he supplements each
lesson with a reading and analysis from a longer passage.
Several features are included that have been very helpful to the students (and
the instructor!) in analyzing texts. He introduces a parsing chart that is
much simpler than others that I have seen in the discourse analysis texts. He
can do this because the student is not trying to rediscover the various forms
marking discourse features. Instead, they are recognizing the forms that they
have been taught to be significant and then using the chart to see how these
forms interact. He also has eleven "helpful charts," designed to help identify
the lexical form of words, locations of books in the Hebrew bible, and major
discourse features for the four main discourse genres found in the Hebrew bible
(historical narrative, instructional discourse, predictive narrative, and
hortatory discourse).
I know he has used the book for several years in classes in his church, and I
have found that it is even acceptable among ESL students who have attained a
fairly high level of English proficiency. The approach is much more intuitive
for them than is the traditional, rote-memory, word-level instruction.
This is probably more than you wanted to know about the book!
Paul
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Paul and Dee Zellmer, Jimmy Guingab, Geoffrey Beltran
Ibanag Translation Project
Cabagan, Philippines
zellmer at faith.edu.ph
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