Traditional Hebrew schooling taught recitation without grammatical understanding

Evidence

For one thing he found that his Arabic improved dramatically. After a while he rarely consulted the English translation, and he could listen closely to the words and more or less follow along. Through it all he learned what was in the Qur’an (and what wasn’t). He heard its poetry and read its stories and experienced an awakening. To this day he describes the feeling the Qur’an gave him as one in which his heart filled with the Holy Book’s grace. Something spiritual was happening to him, and in the stillness of those nights, while the rest of the house slept, he could sense the faith rise in him as sure as the mercury climbs in a thermometer on a summer day. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 841 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Narrative cultures need no memory because recitation itself is contemporaneous — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on…, 204; Listening to recited scripture without translation improves language acquisition — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 841; Oral recitation preserved textual authority in pre-print Islamic scholarship — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 421 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Listening to recited scripture without translation improves language acquisition #complicates (0.73) — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 841