Introducing Biblical Hebrew

by Ross, Allen P.

• ISBN13: 9780801021473
• ISBN10: 0801021472
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-11-01
• Publisher: Baker Academic

Summary

The best of both deductive and inductive approaches introducing students to the basics of Biblical Hebrew.

Author Biography

Allen P. Ross (Ph.D., University of Cambridge) is professor of Old Testament at Beeson Divinity School and has taught Hebrew grammar to seminary students for over thirty years. His publications include Creation and Blessing: A Guide to the Study and Exposition of the Book of Genesis and Holiness to the LORD: A Guide to the Exposition of the Book of Leviticus.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 9
Abbreviations	p. 10
Introduction: Semitic Languages - Importance of Biblical Hebrew	p. 11
Signs and Sounds
Alphabet	p. 19
Vowels - Syllables	p. 33
Shewa - Inseparable Prepositions	p. 43
Accents - Meteg - Maqqep - Qames-Hatup	p. 49
Dages Lene - Dages Forte - Mappiq - Article - Tetragrammaton	p. 56
Quiescent Letters - Guttural Letters and [characters not reproducible] - Article before Weak Letters	p. 63
Forms and Meanings
Nouns - Sentences - Coordinating Conjunction	p. 71
Noun Vowel Patterns - Segholate Nouns - Monosyllabic Words - [characters not reproducible]	p. 76
Adjectives - Comparisons - Diphthongs - Historical Vowel Chart	p. 81
Introduction to the Hebrew Verb - Perfect Tense - Sign of the Accusative - Verbal Sentences	p. 86
Independent Personal Pronouns - Demonstrative Pronouns and Adjectives	p. 94
Noun Case - Construct Relationship	p. 98
Pronominal Suffixes on [characters not reproducible] and [characters not reproducible] - [characters not reproducible] and [characters not reproducible] - III-Alep Verbs - [characters not reproducible]	p. 108
Pronominal Suffixes on Nouns	p. 113
Pronominal Suffixes on Irregular Forms	p. 119
Active Participle - Pronominal Suffixes on [characters not reproducible]	p. 126
Imperfect Tense - Directive [characters not reproducible] - Relative Clauses	p. 131
Narrative Sequence - [characters not reproducible] + Waw Consecutive	p. 136
Stative Verbs - Interrogative Sentences	p. 143
Imperative - Jussive - Cohortative - [characters not reproducible] - [characters not reproducible] - Indirect Volitives	p. 149
Waw Disjunctive - Passive Participle - Pause - Pronominal Suffixes on [characters not reproducible] and [characters not reproducible]	p. 156
Infinitive Construct	p. 161
Infinitive Absolute - Pronominal Suffixes on [characters not reproducible] and [characters not reproducible]	p. 167
Pronominal Suffixes on Verbs	p. 172
Numbers	p. 180
Introduction to Verbal Stems - Niphal	p. 187
Piel	p. 193
Pual - [characters not reproducible] or [characters not reproducible] Clauses	p. 200
Hithpael - Metathesis and Assimilation	p. 205
Hiphil	p. 211
Hophal	p. 218
Introducing the Mechanical Parsing Method: Regular Verbs
Introduction to Irregular Verbs - I-Guttural Verbs - I-Alep Verbs	p. 226
Guttural Verbs - III-Alep Verbs	p. 232
I-Nun Verbs - [characters not reproducible]	p. 242
I-Waw Verbs - [characters not reproducible] - Original I-Yod Verbs	p. 250
III-He Verbs	p. 259
Doubly Weak Verbs - [characters not reproducible] and [characters not reproducible]	p. 267
Hollow Verbs - [characters not reproducible]	p. 275
Geminate Verbs - [characters not reproducible]	p. 285
Minor Stems - Hishtaphel	p. 295
Expanding the Mechanical Parsing Method: Regular and Irregular Verbs	p. 302
Texts and Contexts
Masoretic Notes - Critical Apparatus - Genesis 12:1-9	p. 311
Accents - Adverbial Accusative - [characters not reproducible] Clauses - Genesis 12:10-20	p. 320
Extended Noun Patterns - Apposition - Critical Apparatus - Genesis 13:1-11	p. 329
Simple Noun Patterns - Nominal Hendiadys - Paseq - Genesis 13:12-18	p. 340
Repetition - Parallelism - Subject-Predicate Agreement - Genesis 14:8-16	p. 348
Oaths - [characters not reproducible] Clauses - Purpose Clauses - Critical Apparatus - Genesis 14:17-24	p. 357
Special Uses of Pronouns - Paronomasia - Imminent Future Participle - Genesis 15:1-7	p. 364
Special Uses of [characters not reproducible] - Genitive Case - Merism - Genesis 2:4-9	p. 370
Indefinite Personal Subject - Impersonal Subject - Aramaic Targums - Genesis 2:15-24	p. 378
Temporal Clauses - Special Uses of [characters not reproducible] - Special Uses of the Plural - Genesis 2:25-3:7	p. 386
Independent Nominative Absolute - Special Uses of [characters not reproducible] - Rhetorical Questions - Genesis 3:8-16	p. 394
Causal Clauses - Special Uses of [characters not reproducible] - Common Uses of [characters not reproducible] - Genesis 3:17-24	p. 402
Verbal Hendiadys - Conditional Clauses - Special Uses of [characters not reproducible] - Genesis 4:1-8	p. 409
Word Order - Result Clauses - Compound Prepositions - Genesis 4:9-16	p. 416
Study Aids
Lesson Reviews	p. 425
Hebrew-English Glossary	p. 479
English-Hebrew Glossary Paradigms	p. 507
Regular Verbs	p. 544
I-Guttural Verbs	p. 546
I-Alep Verbs	p. 547
II-Guttural Verbs	p. 548
I-Nun Verbs	p. 549
I-Waw Verbs	p. 550
I-Yod Verbs	p. 551
III-He Verbs	p. 552
Hollow Verbs	p. 553
Geminate Verbs	p. 554
Accents
Majority of the Books	p. 555
Psalms, Job, Proverbs	p. 556
Subject Index	p. 557
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