Chapter 1: The Goal of the Harvest
a. As quoted in Daniel Jang, “Kissing through a Veil Is Not Intimate Enough,” Christianity Today, July 19, 2019, https://www.christiantoday.co.nz/news/kissing-through-a-veil-is-not-intimate-enough.html.
b. Bruce K. Waltke, “How I Changed My Mind about Teaching Hebrew (or Retained It),” Crux 29, no. 4 (1993): 14.
c. Martin Luther, “To the Councilmen of All Cities in Germany That They Establish and Maintain Christian Schools,” in The Christian in Society II, ed. Walther I. Brandt, trans. Albert T. W. Steinhaeuser and Walther I. Brandt, Luther’s Works 45 (Philadelphia: Muhlenberg, 1962), 359.
d. John Piper, Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry, updated and expanded ed. (Nashville: B&H, 2013), 100.
e. Waltke, “How I Changed My Mind,” 11.
f. Scott Hafemann, as part of “The SBJT Forum: Profiles of Expository Preaching,” SBJT 3, no. 2 (1999): 88.
g. Bruce Steventon, email to Adam J. Howell, August 9, 2018. Cited with permission.
h. Waltke, “How I Changed My Mind,” 14.
i. Stephen J. Andrews, “Some Knowledge of Hebrew Possible to All: Old Testament Exposition and the Hebraica Veritas,” Faith and Mission 13, no. 1 (1995): 107; italics added.
j. Enoch Okode, “A Case for Biblical Languages: Are Hebrew and Greek Optional or Indispensable?,” African Journal of Theology 29, no. 2 (2010): 96.
k. Rob Starner, “7 Reasons to Study Biblical Hebrew and Biblical Greek,” ThoughtHub, September 24, 2015, https://www.sagu.edu/thoughthub/study-biblical-hebrew-and-greek; italics original.
l. Waltke, “How I Changed My Mind,” 10.
m. Piper, Brothers, We Are Not Professionals, 102.
n. Jason S. DeRouchie, “The Profit of Employing the Biblical Languages: Scriptural and Historical Reflections,” Themelios 37, no. 1 (2012): 46.
o. DeRouchie, “Profit of Employing the Biblical Languages,” 46.
p. Waltke, “How I Changed My Mind,” 12.
q. Andrews, “Some Knowledge of Hebrew,” 107.
r. Jeremy Bouma, “Why Study Biblical Hebrew? Neglect the Languages, Lose the Gospel, Says Luther!,” Zondervan Academic Blog, August 19, 2014, https://zondervanacademic.com/blog/why-study-biblical-hebrew-neglect-the-languages-lose-the-gospel-says-luther/.
Chapter 2: Weighed in the Balances and Found Wanting
a. Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Great Philosophers of the Western World (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961), 61.
b. Jerome, “Letter 125, ‘To Rusticus,’” in Select Letters of St. Jerome, trans F. A. Wright (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1933), 419–20.
c. Jodi Hiser, email to Adam J. Howell, August 17, 2018. Jodi’s testimony regarding learning Hebrew is reproduced here with permission.
d. Jim Elliot, The Journals of Jim Elliot, ed. Elisabeth Elliot (Grand Rapids: Revell, 1989), 103–4.
e. Phillip Dormer Stanhope, Dear Boy: Lord Chesterfield’s Letters to His Son, ed. Piers Dudgeon and Jonathan Jones (London: Bantam, 1989), 140.
f. Alan Jacobs, “I’m Thinking It Over,” American Conservative, January 4, 2016, http://www.theamericanconservative.com/jacobs/im-thinking-it-over/. Justin Taylor’s blog, Between Two Worlds, first pointed us to this article.
g. Cary Stothart, Ainsley Mitchum, and Courtney Yehnert, “The Attentional Cost of Receiving a Cell Phone Notification,” Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 14, no. 4 (2015): 893–97. The quotation is from the article abstract found at http://psycnet.apa.org/buy/2015-28923-001.
h. “3 Questions with Tim Challies,” Towers [newspaper of Southern Seminary], April 2016.
Chapter 3: Review the Fundamentals Often
a. S. M. Baugh, A New Testament Greek Primer, 3rd ed. (Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R, 2012), vii.
b. Joshua Foer, Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (New York: Penguin, 2011), 65.
c. Foer, Moonwalking with Einstein, 128.
d. Foer, Moonwalking with Einstein, 128.
a. “He Took Me Overseas to Break Me: A Conversation with Dr. William Barrick,” The Master’s Seminary, May 22, 2018, https://www.tms.edu/tyndale/articles/he-took-me-overseas-to-break-me/.
b. Harry Lorayne, How to Develop a Super-Power Memory (Hollywood, FL: Frederick Fell, 2000), 9.
c. Joshua Foer, Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (New York: Penguin, 2011), 53.
d. Dominic O’Brien, You Can Have an Amazing Memory (London: Watkins, 2011), 180, 187.
e. O’Brien, You Can Have an Amazing Memory, 21.
f. Harry Lorayne and Jerry Lucas, Memory Book: The Classic Guide to Improving Your Memory at Work, at School, and at Play (New York: Ballentine, 1974), 21.
g. George M. Landes, Building Your Biblical Hebrew Vocabulary: Learning Words by Frequency and Cognate (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2001), ix.
h. Foer, Moonwalking with Einstein, 203, quoting Tony Buzan.
i. Foer, Moonwalking with Einstein, 100.
Chapter 5: Strategically Leverage Your Breaks
a. John Piper, Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry, updated and expanded ed. (Nashville: B&H, 2013), 100.
b. Piper, Brothers, We Are Not Professionals, 99–100.
c. John Owen, Biblical Theology, or the Nature, Origin, Development, and Study of Theological Truth in Six Books, trans. Stephen P. Westcott (Morgan, PA: Soli Deo Gloria, 1994), 701. The Goold edition in Latin: The Works of John Owen, edited by William H. Goold (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1862), 479.
d. Bernard Ramm, Protestant Biblical Interpretation: A Textbook of Hermeneutics, 3rd rev. ed. (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1970), 117.
Chapter 6: Read, Read, Read
a. Phil Neetz, personal correspondence, January 2019.
a. Rob Starner, “7 Reasons to Study Biblical Hebrew and Biblical Greek,” ThoughtHub, September 24, 2015, https://www.sagu.edu/thoughthub/study-biblical-hebrew-and-greek.
b. Ligon Duncan, “Ligon Duncan on ‘Why Learn Biblical Hebrew & Greek When There Are Good Language Tools?,’” BibleMesh, YouTube, June 22, 2013, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCkFnk-8NPU.
c. Karl Kutz and Rebekah Josberger, Learning Biblical Hebrew: Reading for Comprehension; An Introductory Grammar (Bellingham, WA: Lexham, 2018), xxiii.
d. Ludwig Koehler, from the preface to the Hebrew part of the first edition of Lexicon in Veteris Testamenti Libros, which later became in English Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament. This quotation is from the English edition: Ludwig Koehler, Walter Baumgartner, M. E. J. Richardson, and Johann Jakob Stamm, The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament (Leiden: Brill, 1994–2000), 1:lxx.
e. A. T. Robertson, The Minister and His Greek New Testament (1923; repr., Birmingham, AL: Solid Ground Christian Books, 2008), 22. Originally published in 1923.
f. Moisés Silva, God, Language, and Scripture: Reading the Bible in the Light of General Linguistics (1990), in Foundations of Contemporary Interpretation: Six Volumes in One, ed. Moisés Silva (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996), 278.
g. John Albert Bengel, Gnomon of the New Testament, vol. 1, trans. James Bandinel, rev. and ed. Andrew R. Fausset (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1858), 44. The Latin original of Bengel’s quote (given in the translator’s footnote) is “Nil aliud esse Theologiam atque Grammaticam, in Spiritus Sancti verbis occupatam.” I (Rob) have been unable to locate the original quote in Luther’s writings. Perhaps Bengel is paraphrasing these words of Luther: “Spiritus sanctus habet suam grammaticam” (The Holy Spirit has his own grammar). See Martin Luther, D. Martin Luthers Werke, Weimarer Ausgabe [Weimar: Böhlau, 1883–1993], 39/2:104.24.
h. Starner, “7 Reasons.”
Chapter 8: Hebrew’s Close Cousin—Aramaic
a. Miles V. Van Pelt, Basics of Biblical Aramaic: Complete Grammar, Lexicon, and Annotated Text (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2011), x.
b. Isaac Jerusalmi, The Aramaic Sections of Ezra and Daniel: A Philological Commentary with Frequent References to Talmudic Aramaic Parallels and a Synopsis of the Regular Verb (Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion, 1982), vi.
Chapter 9: Getting Back in Shape
a. Nancy Ruth, email message to Adam J. Howell, January 2, 2019. Nancy was a student in my week-long Hebrew Review course on our campus. Used with permission.
b. From the blog post “Three Investments with an Instant Guaranteed Return,” Mr. Money Mustache (blog), November 15, 2015, https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2015/11/15/three-investments/.
c. Nancy Ruth, email message to Adam J. Howell, January 2, 2019. Nancy was a student in my week-long Hebrew Review course on our campus. Used with permission.
d. Michael Kruger, “You Don’t Think Learning the Biblical Languages Is Worth It? Think Again,” Canon Fodder (blog), August 18, 2014, https://www.michaeljkruger.com/you-dont-think-learning-the-biblical-languages-is-worth-it-think-again/. Kruger is the president and professor of New Testament and early Christianity at Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina.
e. Ethan Graves, email message to Adam J. Howell, December 10, 2018. Ethan was a student in my Hebrew classes during his time at Boyce College. He is currently a children’s minister at Hays Hills Baptist Church in Austin, Texas. Used with permission.