Course Outcomes

By the end of this course the student should:

  • Have mastered Biblical Hebrew vocabulary for verbs occurring 10 or more times and their most frequently attested cognates (Landes – List I, p.47-126)
  • Be able to read and translate most Biblical Hebrew narrative with relative ease
  • Be able to interact minimally with the text critical apparatus of the BHS
  • Be able to Interact and dialogue with technical commentaries such as the WBC
  • Be familiar with most syntactical constructions of the noun and verb
  • Be able to analyse the discourse features of most Hebrew prose.

 

Study Materials

SATS provides most of the required study materials for this course.

The following is required and will be used for the entirety of Hebrew 2 (BHB2121 and BHB2122).

Landes, M. A Student’s Vocabulary of Biblical Hebrew. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1961. (Available in EbscoLinks to an external site.)
Patton, Matthew H., and Frederic Clarke Putnam. Basics of Hebrew Discourse: A Guide to Working with Biblical Hebrew Prose and Poetry. Edited by Miles V. Van Pelt. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Academic, 2019.
Pratico, Gary D., and Miles V. Van Pelt. Basics of Biblical Hebrew. Third Edition. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2019.
van der Merwe, Christo H. J. and Jacobus A. Naudé. A Biblical Hebrew Reference Grammar. Second edition. London: T&T Clark, 2017. (Available in Ebsco!Links to an external site.)
Williams, Ronald J. and Beckman, John C. Williams’ Hebrew Syntax. Third edition. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. (Available in Ebsco!Links to an external site.)