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Hebrew Bible Insert: A Student’s Guide to the Syntax of Biblical Hebrew
A 64-page abstract of basic syntax of Biblical Hebrew, designed as a vade mecum/enchiridion for students of the language. This copy is for course review only; faculty may download it for personal use. The link is to the publisher's website. Thank you for your interest, and for honoring this request.
Originally, the authors had composed their own individual grammars during the course of teaching Biblical Hebrew on the seminary level. It was a pleasant surprise to find that each had adhered to the same basic philosophy of teaching Hebrew grammar. There were some areas that had been developed differently, but the general design was harmonious. A Grammar for Biblical Hebrew represents a combining of those two grammars. It is our hope and prayer that the use of this grammar will prove to be a joyful exercise resulting in an understanding of the Hebrew Old Testament. Special thanks is offered to Dr. Michael Grisanti who has read and commented on this grammar as it has been (and is being) developed and to William Vaughan who prepared the glossaries. Thanks are also due to all those students who have patiently endured (and who are enduring) the process of developing and testing this volume in the classroom. Doubtless, our students have experienced the scriptural warning, “… beyond this, my son, be warned: the writing of many books is endless” (Ecclesiastes 12:12a, NASB). Be assured that the authors have experienced the fact that “excessive devotion to books is wearying to the body” (12:12b). As exhausting as the process might prove to be, however, we are not to be “weary of doing good” (2 Thessalonians 3:13).
A Modern Grammar for Biblical Hebrew (2009 excerpt)
B & H Academic, 2009
A first-year resource to guide introductory Hebrew courses, A MODERN GRAMMAR FOR BIBLICAL HEBREW is a complete revision of Duane Garrett's previous textbook A MODERN GRAMMAR FOR CLASSICAL HEBREW. Written with the student in mind, this new textbook provides an innovative overview of the essentials of grammar while moving the learning into the original text as early as lesson eight, providing first-hand experience in God's word. Some of the distinct features are as follows: -Completes all essential first-year material in 26 lessons. -Clarifies the rules for accent shift and vowel change very early. -Overviews the verbs within the first weeks of study. -Enables early mastery of weak verbs. -Initially introduces weak roots and derived stems first through principal parts. -Includes intermediate topics in the final chapters and appendixes. A MODERN GRAMMAR FOR BIBLICAL HEBREW includes tables, charts, and "blackboards" for further emphasis and features a CD containing additional helps for the student and teacher. Flexible teaching plans guide the learner through the essentials, whether the goal is an understanding of only the rudiments of traditional first-year biblical Hebrew or an appreciation of intermediate issues like Masoretic cantillation, textual criticism, lexicography, or discourse grammar and literary structure in prose and poetry. Appendixes include introductions to the standard Hebrew text and use of a lexicon, as well as a glossary, vocabulary lists, and verb paradigms.
Following the blueprint II: A new Biblical Hebrew syntactic outline derived from Harald Weinrich
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Following my critique of Niccacci's methodological stances, I establish a new interpretation of Biblical Hebrew word order derived from Harald Weinrich's Tempus. Its word order mirrors the opposition between comment and narrative registers. I describe the reasons for attributing a narrative function to the wayyiqtol and wqatal (verb-first) sentences while reserving the comment function to xqatal, xyiqtol, and xparticiple (verb-second) sentences. The occasional occurrence of a comment sentence in indirect speech is, in most cases, the syntactic mark of the narrator's addresses to the reader.
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Unbeknownst to me while writing my intermediate grammar, the scholar Benjamin D. Suchard finished a dissertation at Leiden University (in September 2016) titled " The Development of the Biblical Hebrew Vowels. " Unfortunately, I only became aware of the dissertation after my manuscript was sent to the printer. Below, I have compiled a series of comments referring to Suchard's dissertation, oriented to the relevant place in my book.
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