Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #224180 in Books
• Published on: 2006-08-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Synopsis
"A Graded Reader of Biblical Hebrew" is the ideal next-step resource for the student who has completed a year of elementary Hebrew, or it can be used as a refresher for the pastor or scholar whose language skills have diminished due to lack of use. Immersion in the language is the best way to reinforce what you have already learned and to gain greater proficiency in using the language for exegesis and preaching. "A Graded Reader of Biblical Hebrew" is a structured introduction to the reading of biblical Hebrew texts. Through these readings, you will be able to review basic Hebrew grammar, become familiar with issues of intermediate grammar, and gain confidence in handling the Hebrew text. The readings chosen for inclusion, which are arranged generally in order of increasing difficulty, span the whole of the Old Testament and represent some of the most important Old Testament texts from the standpoint of biblical history, theology, and exegesis. The many notes that accompany the text include information on grammar, exegetically significant constructions, vocabulary words, idioms, bibliographic information, and more.

Parsing exercises are included with each reading, and there is room for you to write your own English translation.

Customer Reviews

Excellent resource for intermediate biblical Hebrew
This book is for people who have done some introductory biblical Hebrew and want to go further, or for those whose introductory Hebrew was some time ago and is a little rusty.

There are 30 shortish Hebrew texts to read, arranged in increasing order of difficulty. Each text is accompanied by parsing exercises and notes on the grammatical forms found in the text.

Many of the texts included in this book are likely to be familiar to anyone with a background in reading the Bible in English, for example the burning bush (Exodus), the Shema (Deuteronomy), the new covenant (Jeremiah) and Psalm 23. I think the familiarity of the texts used is helpful and likely to keep readers of this book motivated.

I would recommend this to anyone who wants to continue their Hebrew.