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Learning Biblical Hebrew: Reading for Comprehension

Learning Biblical Hebrew: Reading for Comprehension

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What's the best way to learn a new language? By approaching it not as a series of facts to memorize but as something alive, with a personality, you can get to know and tendencies you can sometimes predict.

Designed for long-term retention, Learning Biblical Hebrew focuses on helping students understand how the Hebrew language works and providing a solid grounding in Hebrew through extensive reading in the biblical text.

Written for first-year and second-year Hebrew students, grammar is laid out to present comprehensive concepts to first-year students and then to aid in the review and deeper understanding for second-year students.

Though written for Hebrew competency, Learning Biblical Hebrew is also well-suited for students with different learning styles and objectives.

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Learning Biblical Hebrew: Reading for Comprehension: An Introductory Grammar

  • Introduces advanced concepts in a form accessible to beginning students.
  • Focuses on historic patterns and changes that minimize memorization.
  • Focuses on how the language works for long-term retention.
  • Encourages mastery of paradigms from a handful of representative forms.
  • Includes extensive translation from the third week of class.
  • Prepares students for translation of unedited biblical texts.
  • Emphasizes reading comprehension rather than decoding.
  • Promotes a strong oral component to enhance language competence.

The approach taken here by Kutz and Josberger does exactly what the title suggests: it teaches you how to read and comprehend Biblical Hebrew. Unlike many other grammars and approaches, this book gets you into the text of the Hebrew Bible and reading quickly, which is exactly why you are learning Hebrew.  This textbook makes the daunting task of learning a language (even more Biblical Hebrew!) so accessible, while also providing an approach and material that is sure to help even the intermediate and advanced student.

Number of Pages: 368
Dimensions: 9.00 X 6.00 (inches)

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