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Publisher: John A. Cook,Robert D. Holmstedt
Publication date: 2011(updated)
Number of pages: 244+278+97
Language:English/Hebrew*Biblical Hebrew A Student Grammar-Draft, 2007; revised 2009; minor corrections 2011This textbook is intended for a university classroom. It is divided into thirty lessons, corresponding to the typical thirty-week academic year. Following the sequence of lessons will
provide the average student with a cutting-edge understanding of ancient Hebrew grammar and will enable the student to read both prose passages and less complex poems from biblical and non-biblical texts. Additionally, the textbook introduces the student to the standard Biblical
Hebrew lexicon1 and includes an appendix on the Masoretic accents, which may be incorporated into the sequence of lessons at whatever point the instructor desires.
Because of the variety of first-year biblical Hebrew textbooks currently available, it is worth briefly noting what this textbook is not: it is not a reference grammar; it is not meant to be used without supplementation from the instructor; it is not meant for self-study; it is not theologically oriented. What this textbook does not do represents fairly well the character of almost every other available textbook, and thereby indicates that there exists a significant lacuna in the world of Hebrew textbooks. This textbook is intended to fill this hole.
*Lessons, Appendices, & Glossaries-2011As is the case with most elementary textbooks of Classical or Biblical Hebrew, this textbook
was born out of the authors’ dissatisfaction with the available grammars. Its development began during our time at the University of Wisconsin as graduate instructors of first-year biblical Hebrew courses, from 1996 to 2002. In our years of teaching Hebrew since graduate school, in a variety of institutional contexts, we have continued to shape and alter the textbook, refining its focus and distinctives. In this process we have come to realize that our dissatisfaction is shared by other Hebrew teachers, despite the deluge of new Hebrew textbooks in recent years, and that a market remains for a textbook with a different approach for teaching biblical Hebrew, an approach grounded in modern methods for teaching languages.
*Readings- 2011