This has meant working directly with developing an alphabet, phonology, primer and dictionary as well as identifying native speakers who can be trained as the primary translators of the biblical texts. Part of this has involved expanding her knowledge of the structure of the Hebrew language in order to better assist those translating the Old Testament into their own languages. The traditional Wycliffe approach has been to start with translating New Testament scripture into a particular language. She works at discourse analysis, also called text linguistics. Hebrew has a lot of repetition.
Some scholars say it's just bad writing.
But if you look at it from a different perspective, it's the way they told the stories. Her fellow students were all African men, learning Hebrew in order to translate the Bible into their particular languages. The students were asked to translate the book of Ruth from Hebrew into their native languages. But in the end I'm glad I did. I discovered I didn't know the structure of English narrative as well as I thought.