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The Church today is built on the Reformation’s linguistic heritage yet is in danger of losing that strong foundation. Many seminaries no longer require that their students learn the biblical languages for their divinity degrees—some do not even teach them! Yet these are the basic tools of any study of the Bible, and if we don’t teach the Bible, then what is the church teaching? If we need...

is Hebrew to the majority of ministers? Even in the Presbyterian churches they never open a Hebrew Bible from one year’s end to the other. I should like to see our students taught to read English, to know what English means, which only a small majority do. This is not an uncommon view. Richard Watson accurately reflects these sentiments when he says: Some seminary students spend a tremendous amount of time studying Hebrew, but in a small survey of pastors who have been in the ministry for ten years
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