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• Sex and Language?

  Published: July 17, 2007, 6:52 pm

  Tags: Teaching Amp 038 Learning, Hebrew, Greek

  say my experiences learning biblical languages were anywhere near as bad (I do recall being very intimidated when I sat down the first day of Ugaritic class and the professor handed me a text and said “read”!) While the rant post is quite funny, it does raise the question of how to teach biblical languages in such a way that

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• Raising the Language Bar for Seminary Studies

  Published: July 16, 2007, 12:29 pm

  Tags: Teaching Amp 038 Learning

  is also a fear of language learning among seminarians. I don’t know how many times I have heard students worrying about taking Greek or Hebrew. Perhaps the biggest problem is that many consider it irrelevant — and if you look at what is considered acceptable preaching in many churches today then a psychology degree is probably more

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• How to Teach Introductory Classical Hebrew

  Published: March 14, 2008, 9:11 pm

  Tags: Hebrew, Hebrew Grammar, Pedagogy, Teaching Amp 038 Learning

  acquisition methods, the teaching methods of ancient languages are stuck in antiquity. She acknowledges that many of the most recent introductory Hebrew textbooks employ the latest information technology (e.g., vocabulary flashcard programs), but we shouldn’t kid ourselves into thinking “that the emergence of real new approaches

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