I have assigned my “Introduction to Old Testament” students to interview a “real biblical scholar.” Students will collaboratively come up with questions for their interviews during October, and conduct their interviews by phone or Skype in early November. They will then write a report on their interview. Here is how I describe the report to [...]
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So, mostly what I’ve been doing is supporting my faculty colleagues in their transition from Blackboard to our new Moodle learning management system. But, partly what I’ve been doing is continuing with the biblical Hebrew resources in my series, “A Foundation for Biblical Hebrew,” a series that uses communicative learning tools as a supplement to [...]
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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: I wrote before about exercises in active reading. Here I look especially at textbook chapters and active reading. The steps may seem time-consuming, but in practice it is an incredible time saver: with interactive reading, you can read the chapter once instead of several times, because you retain the content at a much higher rate than through passive reading.
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Summary: I have created a pair of “frequency lists” for New Testament Greek and Biblical Hebrew: words are listed from most-frequent to least-frequent, according to parts of speech. To what sorts of uses might you put a frequency list?
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Summary: Seminary students arrive with a wide range of preparedness to do “active reading” (a wider range than in many Masters programs, I think). What kinds of activities can model and enhance active reading, in a non-remedial way that’s good for the largest number of students?
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Summary: This seven-part series comes to a total of about eighty (80) minutes. At the series’ end, the student not only will have discovered, through reading, the Biblical Hebrew Aleph-bet and vowels, but will already be reading Hebrew with a considerable degree of fluency.
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The remaining letters of the Biblical Hebrew aleph-bet are covered in this sixth learning video. By this time, the learner is quite familiar with vowels and consonants composite shewa with gutturals simple shewa, including “vocal shewa” final forms “begadkepat” letters The learner is also reading a great many Hebrew words with a considerable degree of [...]
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