Yes, You Can Learn Biblical Hebrew—and Why You Should! (Aleph with Beth)

Episode Summary

Due to a technical issue, Dru’s audio is of lower quality than usual.

There are many factors that hinder people from learning biblical Hebrew—cost, lack of resources, and the belief that Hebrew is only for the “spiritually elite.” But Beth and Andrew Case believe learning Hebrew is for everyone and want to make learning the language the new normal in Christian discipleship. The Cases have tools to make the biblical language available for free to everyone in the world. In this conversation, the Cases chat with Dru Johnson all about the Hebrew language, their special pedagogy, and their Youtube Channel Aleph with Beth where they teach the language of the Hebrew Bible, free to everyone.

Chapters

    • 0:00 Is learning Hebrew for everyone?

    • 6:50 Learning Hebrew is doable

    • 14:50 Hebrew can help people understand Scripture

    • 18:40 The Case’s history with Hebrew

    • 24:04 Why they speak the name of God

    • 28:18 Why the Cases only speak Hebrew in Aleph with Beth videos

    • 36:30 How they assess if their methods are working

    • 40:00 What the Cases have learned

You can also check out the Aleph with Beth website.

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Aleph with Beth

Beth (Bethany) Case was always fascinated with languages since she was a child (you can tour her crazy language notebook from high school here). She also has gift for art (which you can see on her Instagram here). Her interests led her get a masters of Linguistics from the University of North Dakota, and now she is working on a PhD in biblical Hebrew through the University of the Free State in South Africa. She served for five years in Colombia teaching future missionaries things like Second Language Acquisition and Phonetics. After that she went to study Hebrew at the Jerusalem Center for Bible Translators, where she met Andrew.What about Andrew Case? In short, he’s is a translation consultant who has written a lot of music, a handful of books, created some prayer apps, runs a podcast, and served in Equatorial Guinea. Now he and Beth live and work in Oaxaca, Mexico where Andrew grew up. Feel free to follow them on Facebook here.

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