A Modern Grammar for Biblical Hebrew Workbook

by Duane A. Garrett, Jason S. DeRouchie

This all-new workbook for first year Hebrew students serves as the essential exercise companion to A Modern Grammar for Biblical Hebrew by Duane Garrett and Jason DeRouchie. The lay-flat binding and laminated review sheets make it especially easy to use time and again.

320 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2009

About the author

Duane A. Garrett is John R. Sampey Professor of Old Testament Interpretation at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He has served on the faculty at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Bethel Seminary, Canadian Southern Baptist Seminary, Mid-America Baptist Seminary, and Korea Baptist Seminary. He has authored numerous books, including Song of Songs in the Word Biblical Commentary, A Modern Grammar for Classical Hebrew, Angels and the New Spirituality, Authority and Interpretation, and Hosea and Joel in the New American Commentary. He is the general editor of The Archaeology Study Bible (Zondervan).

Reviews

[Spencer R · Rating 4 out of 5]

You can read my full review on my blog, Spoiled Milks (5/8/17)

Learning a language is not easy. You have to learn a new set of vocabulary, a new way to structure sentences, and new syntactical and grammatical rules just to be able to speak to somebody! It’s a bit different with Hebrew and Greek, as many student only learn to recognize and read the languages (unfortunately-languages stick better when you learn them through speaking and listening too). Duane Garrett and Jason DeRouchie have come together and revised Garrett’s previous Hebrew textbook.

The Workbook is excellent. Each chapter comes with many sentences to translate and many verbs to parse for extra practice. It’s unfortunate that the reader isn’t required to translate from English in Hebrew. It actually helps to reinforce what was taught in the chapter. Bonus: The workbook has an answer key (I’ve actually seen some books that do not have an answer key, which boggles my mind).

I still prefer both Allen Ross’ grammar and Van Pelt/Pratico’s grammar. Part of that is because I’ve worked through both of them. I also think both grammars are laid out better than this one. This one has a lot of good information in it, but it does require a lot of reading. Some chapters also try to get too far ahead of themselves by providing a brief look at a grammatical rule that will be examined in a later chapter.

Regardless, Garrett and DeRouchie have put together an excellent grammar that tries to give the reader all the information they need to understand the language. This wouldn’t be the first grammar I reach for, nor the first I recommend as I don’t find it the simplest grammar to go through, but with self-discipline and patience one can surely make it through this grammar with a firm understanding of both beginning Hebrew and syntax

Disclosure: I received this book free from B&H Academic. The opinions I have expressed are my own, and I was not required to write a positive review.

[Tim Bayer · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you're getting the textbook, make sure you get this workbook as well. Trying to grasp Hebrew as a beginner by only reading is not going to work; you need to practice writing, translating, and parsing by hand. The workbook gives you a substantial and helpful framework to do that.

[Pig Rieke · Rating 3 out of 5]

וְלֹֽא־נָתַן֩ יְהוָ֨ה לָכֶ֥ם לֵב֙ לָדַ֔עַת וְעֵינַ֥יִם לִרְאֹ֖ות וְאָזְנַ֣יִם לִשְׁמֹ֑עַ עַ֖ד הַיֹּ֥ום הַזֶּֽה׃

I think Moses wrote this about Hebrew.