/lit/ - Literature

>>17934017
i've only been learning modern hebrew and the bible is fairly understandable minus autistic vocab that you wouldn't use in every day conversation and the absolute ridiculousness of the bible's metaphorical and poetic language. it's honestly like trying to read shakespearean english as an english speaker. modern hebrew was resurrected largely by using the vocab and phrasing of its biblical variant (along with 2000 years of obsessively rereading the same text), so it's not super different. although if you try to speak biblical hebrew to someone in israel they'll think you're a fag or schizo or something