Hebrew for Life

How to Build and Maintain Proficiency in Hebrew

Three experienced biblical language professors inspire readers to learn, retain, and use Hebrew for ministry, setting them on a lifelong journey of reading and loving the Hebrew Bible.

A companion volume to the successful Greek for Life, this book

● offers practical guidance, inspiration, and motivation;
● incorporates research-tested strategies for learning;
● presents methods not usually covered in other textbooks; and
● surveys helpful resources for recovering Hebrew after a long period of disuse.

Hebrew for Life will benefit anyone who is taking (or has taken) a year of Hebrew. Foreword by Miles van Pelt.

Adam J. Howell (PhD, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is assistant professor of Old Testament interpretation at Boyce College in Louisville, Kentucky.  He also serves as a book review editor for the Journal of Biblical and Theological Studies.

Benjamin L. Merkle (PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is the Dr. M. O. Owens Jr. Chair of New Testament Studies and research professor of New Testament and Greek at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of more than forty books, including Greek for Life, Exegetical Gems from Biblical Greek, Linguistics and New Testament Greek, Beginning with New Testament Greek, and Going Deeper with New Testament Greek. He is also the editor of Southeastern Theological Review.

Robert L. Plummer (PhD, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is the Collin and Evelyn Aikman Professor of Biblical Studies at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He is the coauthor, with Benjamin L. Merkle and Andreas J. Köstenberger, of Going Deeper with New Testament Greek: An Intermediate Study of the Grammar and Syntax of the New Testament.