Hebrew 1 (AL1201L)

Content

Unit content includes: learning the particularities of Hebrew grammar and syntax and biblical vocabulary with a view to being able to read and translate elementary Hebrew sentences into English. The unit covers just over half the material in the set text, whereupon Hebrew 2 focuses on the remaining material.

Learning outcomes

Pedagogy

Face-to-face instruction; regular testing of vocabulary, parsing, Hebrew grammar, and translation skills; peer group work in class and after hours

Indicative Bibliography

• Bartelt, Andrew H., and Andrew E. Steinmann. 2004. Fundamental Biblical Hebrew, Fundamental Biblical Aramaic. St Louis, MO: Concordia Publishing House.
• Bartelt, Andrew H., and Andrew E. Steinmann. 2003. Workbook and Supplementary Exercises for Fundamental Biblical Hebrew and Fundamental Biblical Aramaic. St Louis, MO: Concordia Publishing House.
• Brown, Francis, Samuel Rolles Driver, and Charles Augustus Briggs. The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon: with an appendix containing the Biblical Aramaic. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1996.
• Elliger, Karl and Wilhelm Rudolph, eds. 1997. Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. 5th rev ed. Stuttgart, Germany: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft.
• Holladay, William L. 1998. A Concise Hebrew and Aramaic lexicon of the Old Testament. 14th corrected impression. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans.
• Kohlenberger, John R. 1998. The Hebrew English concordance to the Old Testament: with the new international version. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan.

Assessment