[Faith-talk] Learning Hebrew

[Drenth, Joe]

Hello Stefan and others,

Thank you, Stefan, for your suggestions on materials for learning
Biblical Greek and Hebrew.  I was able to get the book on Greek from
RFB&D, but they do not offer the book on Hebrew anymore -- It is not
available on CD, and they never replied to my email asking if I could
still get the cassette under these circumstances.  I will look for the
Braille book you mentioned.

The book on Greek still did not have any descriptions of the Greek
letters.  The reader actually made a note saying something like, "you
should try to find a raised-line drawing of the letters to get an idea
of what they look like."  Has anyone ever run across any tactile Greek
or Hebrew alphabets to learn the characters???

Also, I cannot believe these are the only resources for a blind person
wanting to graduate from seminary, which usually all require passing at
least a course or two in Biblical Greek and Hebrew.  If anyone out there
knows anyone who made her/his way through seminary without vision,
please have them contact me so I can get their advice and learn from
their experiences.

Also, Stefan, how did they test you in those languages, because I
wouldn't think a human reader would be allowed to read much to you
because that is part of the translation ability being tested?  In other
words, how did they test your knowledge of those languages with such
different characters from English without saying the names of the
characters or transliterating them for you while reading the test
material?

Your help is greatly appreciated!

Thank you,
Joe Drenth
joe.drenth at fmcti.com


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:faith-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Stefan Slucki
Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2008 2:44 AM
To: Faith-talk,for the discussion of faith and religion
Subject: Re: [Faith-talk] Learning Hebrew

Hi Jo,

They were sufficient for me to pass my exams but I would freely
acknowledge that my Hebrew is ... very shaky.

Michael Lambdin's more detailed, thermoformed braille 10-volume Hebrew
Grammar may still be available from National Braille Press or somewhere
like that, but unless you are very motivated I wouldn't recommend trying
to work through it, yourself.

Regards;
Stefan Slucki.

P.S. If you have an old aph-4track casette player, I could record my
copy of Greenberg for you?

Let me know. 

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