: About Me

A Chicagoan by birth, across the past 50 years Risa Wolf has lived in four states and five countries. A trained graphic artist, she is also a PhD in Medieval English Literature.

Risa's love affair with language, writing, music, and drawing is life-long. Most of her work focuses on the history of scripts, writing systems, and ancient poetry/song (which last was identical in those days). She also researches the acquisition of literacy and taught how to do research and to write it up.

With this background it should be no surprise that, while she has what police call "a nose" for reconstructing a scene from the evidence, Risa is very bad at writing fiction.

Her many publications include books and articles written for both academia and the public. Risa writes because writing both clarifies her thoughts and allows her to share what hard won knowledge she does have. She currently has four books and six articles in various stages of completion.

After spending most of her life near the water, Risa now lives in the desert supervised by two cats. Her three loving sons, three lovely daughters-in-law, and thirteen grandchildren live in two countries. She spends quite a bit of time on airplanes with her knees poking the seat in front of her. Risa gets some of her best ideas while on those long international flights.

Risa is your Channel Manager for Arts & Humanities, the Middle Ages and Origins & Firsts.

My passion is ...

Truth - and consequences

I know too much about ...

Nothing; the more I learn the more I realize how little I know

My parents always told me ...

Get your nose out of that book and go out and play

My childhood ambition ...

Physicist :-)

My favorite memory ...

Impossible to choose one from among so many

Why I write ...

to clarify my thoughts

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Mozart, early concertos; Ruth Rendell, The Monster in the Box

My first job ...

First *paid* job: Runner at a summer camp at age 14; first job: showing Holocaust survivor children how to play.

My best moment ...

Too many to choose from and I expect there will be many more

My inspiration ...

Whatever is brought to my attention

Arts & Humanities > Ancient & Biblical Languages Greek vs Hebrew: Which language is more essential for Bible study?

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Both Hebrew and Greek are essential to study of the Bible. The choice is not one language versus the other. The choice is which essential language in studying the Bible to learn *first*: Greek or Hebrew? For a number of reasons, contextual and practical, it makes sense to learn Hebrew, first. ♦ Contextual Reasons: Cultural context is important to understanding the Greek Bible and the society in which Jesus of Nazareth lived. Jesus was a Jew who lived by the words of the Hebrew Bible and not by the fiats of the priestly hierarchy of his day. While he undoubtedly knew some Greek, the l...

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