{"id":144,"date":"2007-06-19T16:24:47","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T23:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=144"},"modified":"2007-06-19T16:24:47","modified_gmt":"2007-06-19T23:24:47","slug":"hebrew-vanishing-corrective-action-required","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/19\/hebrew-vanishing-corrective-action-required\/","title":{"rendered":"Hebrew vanishing! Corrective action required!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been preaching the Gospel text from the <a href=\"http:\/\/divinity.library.vanderbilt.edu\/lectionary\/\">revised common lectionary<\/a> every week so far during year C. That&#8217;s all well and good, you say, and, yes, the exegesis has helped my Greek reading skills inordinately.<\/p>\n<p><strong>But!<\/strong> I was just translating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=psalm%20121\">Psalm 121<\/a> from the &#8216;brew for an upcoming funeral and whoa! I&#8217;ve forgotten all of the 11 Hebrew roots I actually used to know. I knew I was in trouble when I couldn&#8217;t remember what SH-M-R meant (&#8220;keep&#8221;, &#8220;observe&#8221;, &#8220;guard&#8221;). Yikes.<\/p>\n<p>(Also, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.audioscriptures.org\/\">audioscriptures<\/a> web site appears to have de-emphasized Hebrew. So to hear someone with a clue read it, I had to go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aoal.org\/hebrew_audiobible.htm\">here<\/a> instead.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been preaching the Gospel text from the revised common lectionary every week so far during year C. That&#8217;s all well and good, you say, and, yes, the exegesis has helped my Greek reading skills inordinately. But! I was just translating Psalm 121 from the &#8216;brew for an upcoming funeral and whoa! I&#8217;ve forgotten [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-2k","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}