In an easy-to-use workbook format, students learn tools for understanding the structure of Hebrew phonology and morphology, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, and syntax, and gain a reading knowledge of the Hebrew Bible that will last beyond seminary. Spiral Bound. REVISED EDITION
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Hebrew is a member of the Semitic family of languages. Cognate languages include Akkadian, Arabic, Aramaic, Syriac, Ethiopic, Phoenician, Ugaritic, and others.
Biblical Hebrew is the name given to the Hebrew of the Jewish Scriptures (the Tanakh), the Christian Old Testament. All of the Old Testament, except for 268 Aramaic verses—Jeremiah 10:11, Daniel 2:4–7:28, Ezra 4:8–6:18, and Ezra 7:12–26—was written in biblical Hebrew. Biblical Hebrew was written from right to left on the page and consisted only of consonants. In the Middle Ages, Masoretic scribes added vowels, accents, and other notations to the text in order to preserve the traditional, rabbinic pronunciation of the text for a Jewish population increasingly removed from its Hebrew homeland and roots.
In this book, we will study biblical Hebrew with the Masoretic vowels, accents, and notations. The manuscript of the Bible to which we will refer and that we will use is the Leningrad Codex, a Masoretic manuscript in the ben Asher tradition that dates to the eleventh century C.E. and is the foundational text of Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia.1
The Alphabet of the Hebrew Language
The Alphabet
The Hebrew alphabet consists of twenty-three consonants.
Five of the consonants
are shaped differently when they appear at the end of a word
Note:
is always written with a vowel (see p. 5). The vowel is usually sheva
, but qamets often occur
Six of the letters
called the begad kepat letters—had, at one point in the transmission of biblical Hebrew, two pronunciations:
A hardened (or stopped) pronunciation was indicated by a dagesh (a dot) in the letter.
A softened (or spirantized) pronunciation was indicated by the letter written without a dagesh.
In this textbook, we will distinguish hardened and softened pronunciations only for
The Vowels of Biblical Hebrew
The Vowels
The vowels of biblical Hebrew may be categorized into three vowel classes:
There are three types of vowels in each vowel class:
Writing Hebrew Letters
Writing Hebrew Letters with Vowels
Chapter 1 Exercises
Copy each letter of the Hebrew alphabet (including the sp...
Table of contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter One - Writing Hebrew Letters with Vowels
Chapter Two - Layout of a Hebrew Verse
Chapter Three - Adding the Definite Article, Prepositions, and the Conjunction
Chapter Four - Noun Formation; Absolute and Construct Forms
Chapter Five - Pronouns
Chapter Six - The Maqqef
Chapter Seven - Patah Furtive
Chapter Eight - Verb Roots, Aspects, and Person, Gender, Number
Chapter Nine - Identifying Verbal Stems
Chapter Ten - The Definite Direct Object
Chapter Eleven - The Verb Location Chart
Chapter Twelve - Sign of the Definite Direct Object with Pronoun Suffixes Attached
Chapter Thirteen - Infinitive Construct and Infinitive Absolute
Chapter Fourteen - Pronoun Suffixes Added to Verbs
Chapter Fifteen - Introduction to Weak Verbs
Chapter Sixteen - Verb Roots Beginning with Gutturals
Chapter Seventeen - Verbs Beginning with and Hollow Verbs
Chapter Eighteen - Verbs Beginning with, Double Consonant Verbs, Some Unusual Forms
