An intensive course of Biblical Hebrew for beginners consisting of four weeks studying Hebrew. The objective of
the course is to learn to read and translate a Hebrew text of medium difficulty with the assistance of a dictionary.
During the course, the following aspects are focused on:
– The Hebrew alphabet and its vocalisation
– The noun system, its determination by a definite article or by a suffix
– Proclitic prepositions
– Adnominal genitives
– Numbers
– The regular verb including its sevenfold system of linguistic stems.
Last update: Sláma Petr, doc., Ph.D. (21.08.2024)
Course completion requirements
Regular preparation for the lessons and completion of the tasks assigned. In order to pass the course students have to pass a written test and an oral test.
Last update: Sláma Petr, doc., Ph.D. (21.08.2024)
Literature
KOEHLER, L. and BAUGARTNER, W. The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament I-V, Leiden 1994-2000 (in BibleWorks). BROWN, Francis and DRIVER, S. R. and BRIGGS, Charles. Hebrew and English Lexicon, Peabody, 1979. WEINGREEN, Jacob. A Practical Grammar of Classical Hebrew, New York, 1959. JOOSTEN, Jan. The Verbal System of Biblical Hebrew: A New Synthesis Elaborated on the Basis of Classical Prose, Jerusalem, 2012. JOÜON, Paul and MURAOKA, Takamitsu. A Grammar of Biblical Hebrew, Roma, 1991. SCHNEIDER, Wolfgang. Grammatik des Biblischen Hebräisch, 2001. BUSHELL, Michael S. and TAN, Michael D. and WEAVER, Glenn L. BibleWorks for Windows, version 7, Norfolk, VA, 2005.