Audio Bibles

[ContentInHim]

Haha!

Well, my denomination requires that candidates for ministry take at least two years each of Greek and Hebrew (up through a hermeneutics class), so I've formally studied both. They're just rather rusty, is all -- can muddle my way through with a lexicon, but sitting down with just the original text is fairly questionable. I figure this will help me remember all those things I've forgotten, and maybe gain more facility with the languages than I had before.

(I also ordered the OT in Hebrew.)

Was it an interlinear you ordered, Mac?

I've got one and it does help a bit. I know easy words like "olam" and "bereshit", etc. and some grammar like "aynu" being "my" but that's mainly from songs! LOL!

 

[Macrina]

Was it an interlinear you ordered, Mac?

I've got one and it does help a bit. I know easy words like "olam" and "bereshit", etc. and some grammar like "aynu" being "my" but that's mainly from songs! LOL!

No, it's an audio Bible.

I have the Bible in Greek and Hebrew already, having studied the languages and learned to translate. I'm not good at translating, but technically I can muddle my way through.

The idea with the audio is that I can play it in my car. Hopefully, hearing familiar passages will brush up my vocabulary, which is pretty rusty right now, and also polish my pronunciation, which is weak.

Interlinear Bibles can be helpful, but it's tough because the words and phrasing often don't match up in a way that allows for that to be done clearly. On the other hand, it's useful for pinpointing particular words and identifying what's used in a particular passage. Something like that can make it possible to use commentaries which refer to the original language, even if you don't "know" it.

 

[ContentInHim]

Gotcha!

I don't care about the Greek too much, but I know when I listen to music, especially the Psalms, with the words in Hebrew - well, it just sings to my soul!