Echo Spring 2023 - 12

By Noah Lynch ('22)
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Photo by Sara Vars
oy Hall ('15) has a passion for the Hebrew
language-even though she started off being afraid
of it! Before taking a class with LBC | Capital
Professor Dr. Mark Meyer ('93), she confessed to
him her fears concerning the language.
Eager to help, Meyer, who also serves as the PhD in
Biblical Studies Program Director, encouraged her to
get the class textbook early. " I studied for five months
on my own before the class started, " Hall says.
With this extra work, she began the class with a
knowledge of much of the Hebrew alphabet and
vocabulary.
" I really credit Dr. Meyer with what I've been able to
grasp with biblical Hebrew because he is an incredible
teacher, " she adds. Today, Hall is working toward her PhD in
Biblical Studies, is a pregnancy clinic counselor and serves as
an LBC | Capital Adjunct Professor, teaching BIB 517-Hebrew I
-and coming full circle from her fear of the language to being a
teacher of it.
For others wanting to study Hebrew or any biblical language, Hall
recommends starting with a deep love of God, the Church and the
Bible. " The attitude that you bring to the study of a biblical language
and all that passion you have for God and His Word in the first place
is actually the foundation of learning the language, " she says, adding
that Hebrew students always start with some hurdles.
Some of these include Hebrew being written " backwards, " as
Hall puts it, and that the characters and alphabet differ from the
English alphabet. " If you come in humble but excited and with a
passion for God's Word, that's what drives you to push past, what
I think, are really small hurdles, " she says. " When students come in
really terrified, I try to calm them down and point them back to
the fact that this is God's Word. "
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