Beginning Biblical Hebrew

Relevance Theory and the Problem of Tense-Aspect in Biblical Hebrew

Genesis 22 is a common narrative text that is used in introductory biblical Hebrew courses. There are several points of syntax and narrative style in that passage that are often overlooked by both beginning-intermediate students and even by Hebrew grammarians. Consider Gen 22:3 ויקם וילך אל המקום אשר אמר לו האלהים and he [...]

By Randall Buth|2017-06-12T21:31:28-07:00September 15th, 2013|Biblical Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew verb, Hebrew in First Century, Koine Greek|6 Comments

Mini Quiz: Biblical or Modern Hebrew

In my last post, I posted a video clip of one of my class sessions for beginning biblical Hebrew. One of the accusations sometimes leveled at us who try to teach using Communicative Language Teaching is that we are not using/teaching biblical Hebrew but modern Hebrew. While it is true that "slip-ups" are possible, generally [...]

By Brian Schultz|2017-06-12T21:31:37-07:00September 30th, 2011|ancient language acquisition, Biblical Hebrew, biblical language fluency, Hebrew alive, Hebrew as second language, modern Hebrew, second language acquisition|7 Comments

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