Biblical Hebrew: Text and Workbook

by Victoria Hoffer, Bonnie Pedrotti Kittel, Rebecca Abts Wright

This revised edition of the best-selling Biblical Hebrew isthoroughly updated and augmented for a new generation of students. Designed for use in a two-semester course, the book’s fifty-five lessons are constructed around Biblical verses or segments and arranged in order of increasing complexity. At the successful completion of the course, students will be well equipped to tackle prose passages on their own.

Biblical Hebrew ispart of a comprehensive learning program that includes a 3-CD audio program and a companion volume, the Supplement for Enhanced Comprehension (both sold separately). TheCDs present the alphabet, vowels, readings and cantillations of biblical passages, songs to assist with memorizing grammar concepts, selections from Psalms performed in a variety of musical styles, and all the vocabulary words from English to Hebrew. The Supplement offersreinforcement and review exercises along with more detailed and deeper discussion of topics treated briefly in the textbook.


This combined text and workbook features:
• Readings of extended Biblical texts
Annotations to assist with difficult passages
• Notes on literary style, text criticism, and issues of translation
•  Emphasis on analyzing forms, learning to use an academic dictionary, memorizing paradigms and vocabulary
•  Vocabulary lists
•  Extensive glossary 
• Verb and preposition charts
•  Song lyrics
•  On-line answer key

 

Genres: Language, Religion, Textbooks, Biblical Studies, Judaism

528 pages, Hardcover

First published September 10, 1989

Reviews

[Emma England]

Without doubt the absolute worst book for language acquisition I have ever encountered. I got the distinct impression that it was written for linguists.

[Cory Atkinson]

Hebrew was most certainly not my thing—but this was definitely a good book to learn from.

[Maer]

Hebrew