I got an interesting, “urgent”, email from my Hebrew Professor the week before Christmas – a few days after the exam finished.
He says “I’ve marked all of the exams and there’s probably really only one person who will be totally satisfied with their mark.” As a result he was “willing to give 20% bonus on the exam right away if you promise to do a bonus assignment to be handed in on the first day of class.”
LOL! Oh man. I knew that it wasn’t me – the only person who would be happy with his mark, that is. Because I looked up the verses we translated right after the exam (I forget what it is now) and I completely missed the aspect of one whole portion of the text. One part was supposed to be imperative (commands) but I translated it as simple past tense. Hahaha!
So I’m working on that translation project now… It “consists of translating all of Genesis 6. The assignment must be typed on a computer and each verse must be placed on a separate line and be properly labelled. Include footnotes for translations that are not obvious.” I’m done 3 verses already, and I have 2 more weeks to do it. But I’m working on it slowly…
Hahaha.
Coming up soon, the texts I’m using in both my Hebrew classes, and in my tutorials with Luis. I’m also going to be working on a syllabus for a course I’m designing for my church – to teach Hebrew to laypersons. That’s gonna be interesting!
