Complete Biblical Hebrew: A Teach Yourself Guide

It's easy to teach yourself biblical Hebrew! Complete Biblical Hebrew: A Teach Yourself Guideprovides you with a clear and comprehensive approach to biblical Hebrew, so you can progress quickly from the basics to understanding biblical Hebrew with confidence. Within each of the 24 thematic chapters, important language structures are introduced through life-like dialogues. You'll learn grammar in a gradual manner so you won't be overwhelmed by this tricky subject. Exercises accompany the texts and reinforce learning. Features: One and five-minute introductions to key principles to get you started Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author's many years of experience Tests in the book and online to keep track of your progress Extra online articles at www.teachyourself.com to give you a richer understanding of the basics of the language

Introduction / Aims / Objectives / Methods / Unit 1 / The Alphabet / Consonants / Final Forms / Short vowels / Reading Practice / Unit 2 / Long vowels / Sheva and composite sheva / Reading practice / Unit 3 / Dagesh / Definite Article / Genesis 20:1a / Unit 4 / Conjunction w / Plurals / Genesis 20:1b / Unit 5 / Subject pronouns / Sentences without verbs / Genesis 20:2a / Test / Unit 6 / Nouns / Object marker t) / Genesis 20:2b / Unit 7 / Prepositions (separable and inseparable) / Genesis 20:3 / Unit 8 / Interrogative h / The Perfect / Genesis 20:4 / Unit 9 / Adjectives / Demonstrative and interrogative pronouns / Genesis 20:5 / Unit 10 / The Construct / Object pronouns / Genesis 20:6 / Test / Unit 11 / Imperfect / Imperative / Infinitive absolute / Genesis 20:7-8 / Unit 12 / Interrogative pronouns / Nouns with Pronominal Suffixes / Genesis 20:9-10 / Unit 13 / Infinitive construct / Relative pronoun / He locale / Genesis 20:11-14 / Unit 14 / Particles / The divine name / Genesis 20:15-18 / Unit 15 / Vav consecutive: Imperfect / Genesis 21:1-3 / Vav consecutive: Perfect / Genesis 21:4-6 / Test / Unit 16 / Noun declensions / Gentilic adjectives / Gen 21:7-9 / Jussive / Qal and Niphal / Gen 21:10-13 / Unit 17 / Verbs with pronominal suffixes / Gen 21:14-16 / Cohortative / Gen 21:17-18 / Piel, Pual and Hithpael / Gen 21:19-21 / Unit 18 / Particles / Adverbs / Gen 22:1-4 / Hiphil / Gen 22:5-8 / Unit 19 / Prepositions with suffixes / Gen 22:9-12 / Oracle formula / Textual problems and versions / Gen 22:13-16 / Unit 20 / General revision / Hophal / Gen 22:17-20 / Hapax legomena / Gen 22:21-24 / Test