"Non-Academic" Original Languages?

Glendon M. Gross gross at xinetd.ath.cx
Mon Dec 16 16:29:38 EST 2002


As a beginning Hebrew student I just purchased "The Interlinear NIV 
Hebrew-English Old Testament", edited by John R. Kohlenberger III,  from 
Amazon at a price of $66. [Published by Zondervan.] I am very impressed 
with the volume, which contains the complete Hebrew Old Testament, with 
an interlinear that follows the grammatical form of the Hebrew, without 
added words or articles, using the NIV as a guide (the NIV appears in 
the margin.) I have been greatly enjoying trying to read the Hebrew from 
this volume, and while I am still a rank beginner, I am finding it very 
helpful.

I was also able to obtain a copy of Goodrick's volume "Do It Yourself 
Hebrew and Greek" at Amazon's used book service for $3.99, which I 
consider quite a bargain.  I paid more when the book was in print.

In a similar vein, I also purchased last week, a volume entitled, 
"Antiguo Testamento Interlineal Hebreo-Español",  "PENTATEUCO", which is 
translated by Ricardo Cerni, at my local Bible bookstore for $26.  This 
volume contains a wonderful introduction that touches upon many of the 
issues discussed on this list (In Spanish, of course.)  I am not a 
native Spanish speaker but I was impressed to see that this volume was 
available at such a cheap price. I bought it because there were no other 
  Hebrew translations available at my local bookstore at the time. I 
read Spanish barely well enough to understand the introduction, which 
would appear to put Ricardo Cerni firmly in the FE camp; at least he 
seems to object to many modern translation principles in the following 
quote from the introduction:

"No podemos dejar de hacer una observación negativa de ciertas Versiones 
modernas que han pretendido <<adecuar>> el lenguaje de la Biblia al 
lenguaje actual.  Si bien es cierto que toda traducción, incluso la que
como la presente quiere ser muy literal, requiere una cierta 
<<adaptación>> para hacerla inteligible, no es posible aceptar la 
pretensión de introducir cambios conceptuales bajo el pretexto de que la 
mente del hombre moderno piensa según esquemas diferentes.  Lo que la 
Palabra de Dios nos plantea es ue el hombre debe <<renovar su 
entendimiento>> y adaptarse a la Palbra de Dios, y no al revés.  !Nada
adelantaremos con cambiar la Biblia!  Es tarea de los pastores y 
maestros explicar y aplicar el texto bíblico, y por ello nada mejor que 
la herramienta que ponemos en sus manos:  una tracucción literal, 
palabra por palabra, del texto del A.T."


Regards,

Glendon Gross

Clayton Javurek wrote:
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>     Clayton Javurek
>     E-MAIL: javurek at asu.edu
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>     Mark:
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>     In a non-academic way which stresses more utilization than
>     memorization,
>     I have taught both Hebrew and Greek using the 2 following tools:
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>     1. An Interlinear Hebrew-English or Interlinear Greek-English Text
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>     2. An Analytical Hebrew or Analytical Greek Lexicon
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>     This save students from 80% of the formal academic memorization and
>     gets them
>     immediately working with the Hebrew and Greek texts. It enables them
>     to at least
>     memorize the Hebrew and Greek Alphabets and to understand
>     grammatical classifications of words so that they can understand the
>     word breakdowns in the
>     Analytical Lexicons.
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>     No paradigm memorization is required.
>     No vocabulary memorization is required.
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>     The object is to have them lean heavily on these tools
>     to plunge them immediately into the Hebrew and Greek texts.
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>     -----Original Message-----
>     From: Mark Wessner [mailto:mark at wessner.ca]
>     Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 10:09 AM
>     To: Biblical Hebrew
>     Subject: [b-hebrew] "Non-Academic" Original Languages?
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> 
>     Hi Everybody,
> 
>     If you have taught Biblical Hebrew / Greek in a non-academic setting
>     (eg.
>     church, neighbourhood group, etc), what text(s) have you used, or
>     have you
>     had to create your own material?  I would like to offer a Biblical
>     language
>     course that is not "pre-seminary", but instead raises the original
>     language
>     awareness of the participants (why the languages are important, how
>     to use
>     the better lexicons and commentaries, issues in translation, etc). 
>     Have
>     any of you had a chance to review Zondervan's soon-to-be-published
>     "Greek
>     for the Rest of Us"? (Looks good on Greek, but short on Hebrew).
> 
>     Thanks!
> 
>     Mark Wessner
>     mark at wessner.ca
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>     Ancient Wisdom, Modern Faith
>     http://www.wessner.ca
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