Rabbi Yitzchak Etshalom - Developments in Bible Study Ep. 100
Good Faith Effort
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How to Read the Bible in English Style
Biblical Hebrew has a relatively limited vocabulary and Semitic languages in general, you know, have smaller vocabularies. So good English style leverages the vastitude of the vocabulary and tries to use varied and variegated language for describing things. Good biblical style means that you can often sound like you have a good vocabulary. And therefore, it seems to me that any methodology for reading biblical literature should kind of be aware of how to make use of those keywords.
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