Summary: I’ve worked into biblical Hebrew the children’s song, “The Wise Man Built His House upon a Rock.” I also plan “If You’re Happy and You Know It” and “Head Shoulders.” What other simple children’s songs, with good biblical vocabulary or communicative-learning pay-off, can you think of that might be put into biblical Hebrew?
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Summary: In recent years, I have seen a sharp decrease in understanding about a writing process. Anecdotal evidence suggests a growing lack of familiarity with the benefits of a writing process. So now you understand why it is that, when my fourth grader, lying in bed and chatting before lights-out, began to talk about “the writing process,” I leapt for the laptop and began to record. Take ten minutes, and learn how it’s done.
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Summary: An explanation for my students about how the Bible can begin with a construct form followed by a verb.
Filed under: Hebrew Language, Old Testament | Tagged: 11-541, Akkadian, grammar, Hebrew, language | 7 Comments »
Links to eight-part “Discourse Approach to the Biblical Hebrew Verbal System” on Pete Bekins’ Balshanut.
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This post at the Accordance Bible blog was a revelation for me. (Yes, it is now a revelation that is over five weeks old. So I percolate.) It shows that I can use Accordance to search for particular kinds of weak Hebrew roots, like geminates, middle-weaks, even III-liquids and the like. Long ago, I had [...]
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