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"Learn how to read the Hebrew Bible in its original ancient language."--Container

36 lectures, 30 minutes per lecture

Course no. 2256

Lecturer: Professor Michael Carasik, University of Pennsylvania

DVD

Closed-captioned

Disc 1: Studying Biblical Hebrew -- Learning the aleph bet -- Tiberian vowel system -- Roots of semitic verbs -- Hebrew verb forms and the definite article -- Hebrew's attached prepositions -- Disc 2: Adjective forms and agreement in Hebrew -- Irregular Hebrew nouns and adjectives -- Hebrew pronouns and pronominal suffixes -- How Hebrew letters behave -- Perfect and imperfect Hebrew verbs -- Segholate nouns and pausal forms -- Disc 3: Construct form: Hebrew's trailer hitch -- Forming Hebrew construct chains -- Hebrew verb classifications: Binyanim -- Question words in Hebrew -- Hebrew participles -- Counting in Hebrew -- Disc 4: Hebrew roots with guttural letters -- Hebrew's lamed-hey roots -- Hebrew roots beginning with yud -- Irregular Hebrew verbs -- Hebrew's hollow verbs -- Infinitive in Hebrew -- Disc 5: Jussives, cohortatives, and "Hava nagila" -- Imperative form in Hebrew -- Verbs of the hiphil binyan -- Piel verbs and passive binyanim -- Reflexive bibyanim: Niphal and hitpa'el -- Reading the Bible in Hebrew: Joshua 1 -- Disc 6: Geminate verbs and reading Numbers 22 -- Hebrew's object suffixes -- Hebrew oaths and other idioms -- Understanding Hebrew punctuation marks -- Choosing a Hebrew Bible -- Helpful Hebrew reference books