Hebrew 1 (AL9001L)

Content

Unit content includes: learning the particularities of Hebrew grammar and syntax and biblical vocabulary with a view to being able to read and translate elementary Hebrew sentences into English. The unit covers just over half the material in the set text, whereupon Hebrew 2 focuses on the remaining material.

Learning outcomes

Unit sequence

Course relationship: A level 9 unit in postgraduate theology and ministry courses

Pedagogy

This unit is underpinned by teaching practices and strategies (e.g. interactive lectures to introduce new material, group work on drills and translations, and regular quiz exercises and feedback), which encourage student engagement and participation in a variety of learning tasks and opportunities that foster deep learning.

Indicative Bibliography

• Bartelt, Andrew H., and Andrew E. Steinmann. Fundamental Biblical Hebrew, Fundamental Biblical Aramaic. St Louis, MO: Concordia Publishing House, 2004.
• ———. Workbook and supplementary exercises for Fundamental Biblical Hebrew and Fundamental Biblical Aramaic. St Louis, MO: Concordia Publishing House, 2003.
• Brown, Francis, Samuel Rolles Driver, and Charles Augustus Briggs. The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon: with an appendix containing the Biblical Aramaic. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1996.
• Elliger, Karl, and Wilhelm Rudolph, eds. Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. 5th rev ed. Stuttgart, Germany: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1997.
• Holladay, William L. A concise Hebrew and Aramaic lexicon of the Old Testament. 14th corrected impression. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1998.
• Koehler, Ludwig, and Walter Baumgartner. The Hebrew and Aramaic lexicon of the Old Testament. 2 Vols. 1st English ed. Translated and edited under the supervision of M.E.J. Richardson. Leiden: Brill, 1994.
• Kohlenberger, John R. The Hebrew English concordance to the Old Testament: with the new international version. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1998.
• Williams, Ronald J. Williams’ Hebrew syntax. 3rd ed. Revised and expanded by John C. Beckman. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007.

Assessment