Sadly, most Christian bible colleges and seminaries neglect these crucial subjects and thereby often distort the meaning of Hebrew words when attempting to understand particular passages of Scripture. We begin to see and experience life differently as we become more attuned to the Jewish calendar and the life cycle of the Jew. We begin to sense the "weight" of certain keywords of the Jewish tradition and assign relative importance to these words as we read the Scriptures for ourselves. We come to better understand the Jewish mindset when we actively participate in the appointed times and seasons as revealed in the Hebrew bible. This involves, among other things, a ready familiarity with the Jewish cycle of events (mo'edim) as instituted by Almighty God and as practiced by the Jews for hundreds of years before Jesus came to earth. One piece of this work is to become familiar with Jewish history, Jewish culture, and the distinctively Jewish ways of reading the Scriptures. Although this is regrettable (and in some ways a result of the negligence of our forefathers' interest in the Jewish roots of our faith), there is still a lot of work that we can do to better understand the Scriptures from the Hebraic mindset. ![]() ![]() An Introduction for Learners of Biblical HebrewĪlthough it would be ideal to study Biblical Hebrew by immersing oneself in Hebrew grammar, vocabulary, and the entire range of scriptural readings, most of us are in the midst of the learning process and must still rely heavily on lexicons and other linguistic helps while studying the Biblical text.
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