Biblical Hebrew: Text and Workbook, 2nd Revised - Hardcover

Victoria Hoffer; Bonnie Pedrotti Kittel; Rebecca Abts Wright

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300098626 ISBN 13: 9780300098624

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2004

Synopsis

This revised edition of the best-selling Biblical Hebrew is thoroughly updated and augmented for a new generation of students. Designed for use in a two-semester course, the book’s fifty-five lessons are constructed around Biblical verses or segments and arranged in order of increasing complexity. At the successful completion of the course, students will be well equipped to tackle prose passages on their own.

Biblical Hebrew ispart of a comprehensive learning program that includes a 3-CD audio program and a companion volume, the Supplement for Enhanced Comprehension (both sold separately). TheCDs present the alphabet, vowels, readings and cantillations of biblical passages, songs to assist with memorizing grammar concepts, selections from Psalms performed in a variety of musical styles, and all the vocabulary words from English to Hebrew. The Supplement offersreinforcement and review exercises along with more detailed and deeper discussion of topics treated briefly in the textbook.

This combined text and workbook features:
· Readings of extended Biblical texts
Annotations to assist with difficult passages
· Notes on literary style, text criticism, and issues of translation
·  Emphasis on analyzing forms, learning to use an academic dictionary, memorizing paradigms and vocabulary
·  Vocabulary lists
·  Extensive glossary 
· Verb and preposition charts
·  Song lyrics
·  On-line answer key

About this title

From the Publisher:

Yale Language Series

About the Author:

Vicki Hoffer is lecturer in Biblical Hebrew and Biblical literature at Yale Divinity School. The late Bonnie Pedrotti Kittel was professor of Biblical Hebrew at Yale Divinity School and ordained as a Presbyterian minister. Rebecca Abts Wright is a member of the faculty at the University of the South.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0300098626
• ISBN 13: 9780300098624
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 528