The Cambridge Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Paperback with CD-ROM

by Brian L. Webster

• ISBN13: 9780521712842
• ISBN10: 052171284X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback w/CD
• Copyright: 2009-06-29
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The Cambridge Introduction to Biblical Hebrew is designed for anyone studying biblical Hebrew for the first time. It is well suited for students enrolled in introductory-level courses as well as clergy and laity engaged in self-study. The accompanying CD (suitable for Mac and PC) includes the workbook, answers, paradigms, and the interactive program TekScroll. TekScroll greatly facilitates learning through grammar illustrations with moving graphics, interactive parsing programs, translation practice items, and a vocabulary program. The grammar illustrations demonstrate key grammatical points. The parsing programs provide feedback, hints, and corrections. Translation practice comes primarily from biblical verses. The vocabulary quizzing program includes audio of the vocabulary words. The textbook is designed for a two-semester course covering one chapter of grammar per week (22 chapters) and then turning to select syntactical items. Each chapter begins with a Focus section, identifying key elements, and is followed by a summary, vocabulary list, and description of the learning activities on the CD. The practice translation items and workbook exercises use only vocabulary from previous chapters (with few exceptions), so that they can be used immediately in classroom instruction.

Table of Contents

Introduction

The signs and sounds of Hebrew: orthography and pronunciation

Syllables: the structural girders of Hebrew

The 'state' of noun morphology, and also gender and number

More noun patterns

Prepositions, conjunction, article and interrogative particle, direct object indicator

Pronouns: pronominal suffixes on substantives and prepositions

Adjectives

Participles: infinitive construct

Selected words: numbers

Introduction to verbs: qal perfect

Qal perfect weak verbs

Qal imperfect and preterite: strong verbs

Qal imperfect and preterite: weak verbs

Qal volitionals and infinitive absolute

Pronominal suffixes on verbs

Derived stems: participles and infinitives

I-class imperfect verbs: niphal, piel, hitpael, hiphil

I-class imperfects: r3 = weak, r2 = g, r1 = g, r2 = x, r1 = x

I-class imperfect weak verbs: r2 = y, r1 = y, r2 = r3, weak imv., inf., and ptc.

A-class imperfect verbs: pual, hophal

Derived stem perfects: strong verbs, r3 = weak

Derived stem perfects: r1 and r2 weak, r2 = r3, rare binyanim

Sorting through forms and alias profiles

A syntax sampler: introduction to chapters 23-32

Pauses and drama

Lexicography: semantic combinations and the meaning of z

Noun syntax

Verb syntax: the piel

Verb syntax: participles

Clausal syntax in narrative: movies in the mind

Particles: s and t

Infinitives

Perfect and vav plus perfect

Poetry and time frame

Additional vocabulary lists

Glossary: words used 50+ times in the Hebrew Bible

Paradigms: verb id badges and alias profiles

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