Hebrew for Life by Adam J. Howell

Author:Adam J. Howell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Hebrew;Hebrew language—Textbooks;Hebrew language—Grammar;REL006410;REL006210
ISBN: 9781493422241
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2020-02-10T00:00:00+00:00

Competition

The will to win might be one of the strongest motivators in the human person. It motivates perseverance and tenacity while one is playing Monopoly, and it may even motivate survival if someone is trying to “win” against some form of spiritual warfare or persecution. This will to win makes competition a strong asset in learning Hebrew. Let me clarify: let’s not induce sinful one-upmanship as we seek to learn Hebrew, but we can set up friendly competitions to see who will have to pay for the meal if he or she loses.

One way to compete is entering a head-to-head contest. Maybe you and a friend decide to hold each other accountable, but rather than just texting each other based on the reminders you set in your phones, you also decide that whoever can recite the largest chunk of the text you were reading that week gets two extra mulligans on the golf course next time you play. Maybe your positive incentive to read Hebrew daily is to get ice cream on Saturday. Join up with a friend (accountability) and decide that if one of you skips a day, that person has to pay for both ice creams. These kinds of friendly wagers can be a fun way to motivate each other to keep moving forward in learning Hebrew.

Another way to generate competition is by having a lofty goal to achieve. I (Rob) am the Grand Poo-Bah of a secret society. It is the A. T. Robertson Secret Society, so named for a famous Greek grammarian who taught at my school. To join the society, you must make 100 percent on one of my Greek exams. Members receive a personal induction letter with instructions about how to obtain the society’s secret password—which allows them access to the society’s website: www.atrsecretsociety.org. We also have a closed Facebook page, with more than three hundred active members. We have our own secret meetings, T-shirts, a secret handshake, and secret greetings.

“A great help for the investigation of truth is the diligent study of the Holy Scriptures in those languages in which they were written by the Holy Spirit. Not only is this the only well from which we can draw the original force and meaning of the words and phrases of Divine utterance, but also those languages possess a weight of their own—a vividness which brings to the understanding fine shades of meaning with a power which cannot survive the passage into another tongue. . . . There is in the originals of the Scripture a peculiar emphasis of words and expressions, and in them an especial energy, to intimate and insinuate the sense of the Holy Ghost unto the minds of men, which cannot be transduced into other languages by translations, so as to obtain the same power and efficacy. . . . What perplexities, mistakes, and errors, the ignorance of these original languages hath cast many expositors into, both of old and of late, especially among those who pertinaciously adhere unto one translation.

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