A Modern Grammar for Classical Hebrew

by Garrett, Duane A.

• ISBN13: 9780805421590
• ISBN10: 0805421599
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• Publisher: B&H Academic

Summary

One of the few Hebrew grammar books written with the student in mind rather than the scholar, A Modern Grammar for Classical Hebrew focuses on pedagogy for the minister who needs to learn Hebrew.

Author Biography

Duane A. Garrett is professor of Old Testament at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary

Table of Contents

Part I: The Alphabet and Phonetics of Hebrew
The Hebrew Alphabet and Simple Vowels	1	(12)
The Pointed Vowel Letters and the Reduced Vowels	13	(7)
Daghesh Forte, Mappiq, Metheg, and Special Rules for Gutturals	20	(5)
Accent Shift, Vowel Changes, and the Basics of Hebrew Grammar	25	(7)
Part II: Nouns, Adjectives, Prepositions, and the Basics of Verbs
Nouns: Gender and Number	32	(8)
Some Useful Verbs	40	(3)
The Definite Article	43	(4)
The Direct Object Market and the Qal Perfect	47	(5)
The Conjunction and the Qal Imperfect	52	(6)
Geminate Nouns	58	(4)
Adjectives and Qal Participles	62	(6)
Prepositions	68	(6)
Rules of Shewa and the Qal Infinitive Construct	74	(3)
Demonstratives and the Independent Personal Pronouns	77	(5)
Introduction to Prepositions with Pronominal Suffixes	82	(5)
Pronominal Suffixes on Nouns and Other Prepositions	87	(7)
The Construct Chain	94	(8)
Segholate Nouns	102	(6)
More About and and the Qal Imperatives	108	(4)
Part III: The Hebrew Verb System in Summary
The Qal Finite Verb, the Relative Pronoun, and the Gentilics	112	(7)
The Hebrew Stems and the Weak Roots	119	(8)
The Weak Roots in the Qal Stem	127	(6)
Characteristics of the Derived Stems	133	(9)
The Derived Stems in Weak Roots	142	(9)
Cardinal Numbers	151	(6)
Suffixes on Verbs, Directive Interrogative Pausal Forms, and Paragraph Markers	157	(6)
Part IV: The Qal Stem in Detail
The Qal Perfect of Guttural Roots and III Roots	163	(5)
The Qal Perfect of Hollow, Geminate, and Other Roots	168	(6)
More Pronouns	174	(4)
The Qal Imperfect with Roots with Gutturals or	178	(6)
The Qal Imperfect of I, Hollow, Geminate, and III, Roots	184	(7)
The Qal Imperfect of Other Weak Roots	191	(4)
The Qal Wayyiqtol in the Weak Roots	195	(6)
Qal Active Participles and Resumptive Pronouns	201	(5)
The Qal Infinitive Construct with Weak Roots	206	(5)
The Qal Infinitive Construct With Pronominal Suffixes	211	(4)
The Qal Imperative with Weak Roots	215	(6)
The Infinitive Absolute	221	(5)
The Qal Jussive and Cohortative	226	(3)
The Verbs and	229	(7)
The Qal Conjoined Imperfect	236	(4)
The Qal Statives	240	(3)
Part V: The Derived Stems in Detail
The Niphal Perfect and Imperfect	243	(6)
The Niphal Volitives, Conjoined Forms, Participle, and Infinitives and More on the Qal Passive Participle	249	(6)
The Piel Stem	255	(8)
The Pual Stem	263	(6)
The Hithpael Stem	269	(6)
The Hiphil Stem Perfect and Imperfect	275	(7)
The Hiphil Volitives, Conjoined Forms, Participles, and Infinitives	282	(7)
The Hophal Stem	289	(5)
The Alternative Doubled Stems	294	(4)
Part VI: Additional Details and Introduction to Advanced Issues
Ordinal Numbers	298	(3)
The Basics of Hebrew Poetry	301	(8)
Finite Verbs with Pronominal Suffixes	309	(5)
The Particle	314	(4)
Basic Concepts in Hebrew Text Linguistics	318	(6)
Predictive Discourse and More on	324	(4)
Kethiv and Qere, and Verbless Clauses	328	(4)
Reading Biblical Law	332	(3)
Basic Issues in Textual Criticism	335	(8)
Reading Biblical Proverbs and Noun Types	343	(6)
Reading Biblical Prophecy and the Hebrew Cantillation Marks	349	(25)
VII Appendixes
Hebrew-English Vocabulary	355	(15)
English-Hebrew Vocabulary	370	(1)
Proper Names	371	(3)
Glossary	374	(3)
Answer Key	377	(19)
Paradigms and Derived Stem Vowel Patterns	396