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Show English, Hebrew similarities to be topic of evening class CEDAR CITY -"Tracing Your Roots: Hebrew -English," a study of linguistic similarities, will be offered, of-fered, Nov. 5 - 6 through the Southern Utah State College evening program. The non-credit course will be taught by Terry M. Blodgett, associate professor of German at SUSC. Students will meet in the Library Seminar Room (room 213) from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday then again from 8 a.m. to 12 noon on Saturday. Enrollment is open to all persons interested in ancient history, Dr. Blodgett said, to nonprofessionals non-professionals and to anthropologists, ar-cheologists, ar-cheologists, linguists and Biblical scholars. "The disappearance of the Israelites from the Middle East around 700 B.C. is noted in the Bible," Blodgett said. "This is the period during which the European languages changed. These changes are accounted ac-counted for in Hebrew and many new words were added to the European languages at this time which compare to the Hebrew ' vocabulary." A $30 fee will be charged for the non-credit non-credit workshop. Dr. Blodgett can be contacted at 586-7957 for additional information. The SUSC faculty member received hs doctoral degree in German in 1981 at the University nf TTtah |