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When I studied for my Bat Mitzvah in 1965, the cantor made a record of my Maftir and I was told to learn by imitation as well as by reading along with my text which included Nikkudot. I always thought we should have learned the cartílago marks for chanting. Thirty years later when I was helping kids prepare for Bar and Bat Mitzvah, I borrowed a book from the canter in which the accent were explained. I found it interesting but basically not practical for Bat and Bar Mitzvah study. Imitation turned out to be a lot easier for the thirteen year olds. I imagine that your audience is biblical scholars and that changed everything.

2:25 I wouldn't call four semesters of Greek "an advanced level." Four semesters is just getting started.

Thank you, very interesting

Teach christians to know God deeply better than languajes.

Excellent video - I agree that there really isn't a better set of websites than the 'daily dose' series - super well done :-)

I should also mention that there are Spanish (Greek and Hebrew) and Korean (Greek) channels as well: qr.io/r/iKZunM

Thank you for freely sharing your resources for learning Biblical Hebrew. I am new to learning Hebrew, just getting started, and your presentation in this video made me feel learning Biblical Hebrew an attainable goal. Baruch Hashem.

As someone just starting it's helpful just to know that when I am looking at these word examples that are plastered with markings - well past the shva and vowel marks - that these aren't all about pronunciation. Some are about cadence or identifying how sentences break out.

We are from Horeb biblical Hebrew school in India🎉

שבת שלום ברוך השם

Great job (as always) Doug - I appreciate it - I am grateful to hear that there are so many people who are seeking to continue to engage with the biblical languages in a responsible way - well done! :-)

Great tips Doug - love what you do to encourage people in continuing to grow in their facility with the biblical languages

Thank you for the recommendations! I'm going to check those out.

Thank you. I didn't know about others. I only knew Exegetically Speaking, Biblingo and Glossa House. I love the daily doses as well, of greek, of hebrew, of Aramaic and of Latin.

Another fantastic interview - I was just at Congress with the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies and this video came up - well done Doug and co. for all that you do - it is much much appreciated - looking forward to more great content in the future :-)

Thank you for this interesting interview.

Thank you for this stimulating interview - I appreciated the attention to detail and the focus on answering some of the 'so what' questions with respect to Bible translation and the like - well done :-)

I'm a grandmother learning Hebrew by repeatedly listening to the 'Jesus' film in Hebrew. Since the content is known to me, it has become easier with time, to follow. And I find myself learning more and more words and phrases. So I can really recommend *listening* , because then you get the pronunciation.

Thank you. It is a very interesting theme.

I didn't watch the whole video or the video of part 1 because they didn't seem to be discussing the thing I wanted to hear about. I would like to know how much time they studied Hebrew each day and for how long they did that in order to reach the level they reached in Hebrew. Also, how much time did they spend on other ancient languages? Did they study them at the same time? Did they memorize words and grammar rules by rote or did they learn them also from seeing them in action in the Hebrew BIble?

Great interview! On the point of the grammar-translation method proving to be overwhelming for most learners, I have found some success by explaining to people that if we were to know someone who really loved English literature, the first thing we would definitely NOT tell them to do is to become a historical linguist of the English language. There are some people who not only love literature but who also have an interest in linguistics, and a heavy emphasis on grammar and linguistics will be really interesting and rewarding for that kind of learner, but for most people who are interested in reading literature, because they love literature, putting them in a very grammar and linguistics heavy environment may just crush their love of the subject. By focusing instead on implicit language knowledge and giving them just enough explicit knowledge as they need it to read the text in front of them, they are much more likely to stay with it. Put a slightly different way, if the primary ingredients that are necessary for high quality input are its richness, comprehensibility, and that it is compelling, the teacher can control the first two of those variables, but not the third. Someone who is teaching a language like Hebrew probably finds the small details about grammar to be personally very compelling for them, but we can't make that assumption about our students or even make it compulsory because it just won't stick with them. We just don't like this because we feel less in control of teaching if we can't easily measure morphological knowledge by having students regurgitate paradigms for us, but in the end it all comes down to timing the delivery of explicit knowledge so that it becomes compelling for the student at precisely the moment that it becomes necessary for them to solve the problems in the text before them.

Great interview! Thanks for having Dr. Noonan.

Be sure to check out Dr. Jennifer Noonan's ProveText series on Second Language Insights at czcams.com/video/0QpSk3LO9ic/video.html

Sophia's a friend! I'm working at the prosody from a comparative, quantitative, and historical musicology angle. You can listen to a distillation of my understanding of te'amim in my complete reading of the 7 days of creation, here! drive.google.com/file/d/1APZwRtcAAtYHLvNYVMC1Fy4RcYt4jawm/view?usp=drivesdk

I am sorry but I just don't get it, are you saying that modern hebrew tanakh with nikud are not accurate? If that is NOT what you are saying then if it is an issue of reading fluency then why not just learn Hebrew naturally with modern nikud? You mentioned the singing, but that is not for reading fluency.

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A Great Interview with TWO Great Men - thanks again Doug for all that you do and keep it coming - so so good :-) With respect to BHRG it was our favorite at McMaster Divinity College - great choice! I am looking forward to the work by Noonan and co. on the Composition and Analysis of Pentateuch Should be a great work!

Looking forward to that book on the composition of the Torah!

A wonderful interview involving two wonderful men of God - thank you for this - it is much appreciated :-)

You're a great communicator, Doug! Amen to studying the biblical languages!

I have loved your whole first season - fantastic job - what a pleasure to witness your faithfulness to God through a study of the original languages - looking forward to season two

This Fall (lord willing) I will be teaching Esther (and we will be using Jobe's NIVAC as a textbook) - this will be a video we will watch. Thank you once again Doug for all of your hard work and effort - it is much appreciated :-)

The children song is how i learned the Hebrew Alephbet.

I love StepBible!!!!

I was given BibleWorks 7 from my seminary.

I miss BibleWorks. Accordance comes close but not quite the same par. Logos is supplemntal but no BibleWorks.

Excited for this channel

Doug, this is such wise and sage advice. Thank you. Im thankful for your stuff.

Wish i could have met you at ETS last year at CIU!

Hosea 4: my people are destroyed by a lack of knowledge (Biblical language)!

Amen! Pass the torch!!!

Great word, thanks! Please put out more regarding these....

Excellent job, Doug!

For a similar video surveying options for Biblical Greek, check out czcams.com/video/Z6HOzVobNio/video.html

For a similar video surveying Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic options, check out czcams.com/video/Zk3Nn9BrIkg/video.html

I definitely appreciated the video - one thing that surprised me was that Dr. Bill Barrick's free course on Hebrew wasn't mentioned - also, I must commend Zondervan Academic for their fine selection of materials available online Thanks again Doug

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