Our assignment following the first week of class is to work through chapters 1 & 2 of A Modern Grammar for Biblical Hebrew.  The chapters cover pretty much what you’d expect in the introductory chapters of a Hebrew grammar.  Chapter 1 covers the Hebrew alphabet and vowels.  (i.e. learn your letters, practice your writing, etc.)  [...]

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Last night was the first session of the Hebrew class I’m taking through The Bethlehem Institute.  I wasn’t sure which grammar we’d be using, but as it turns out we’re using a pre-pub edition of A Modern Grammar for Biblical Hebrew by Duane A. Garrett & Jason S. DeRouchie.  The copyright is listed as 2007 [...]

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General Editor: A. Phillip Brown II, Bryan W. Smith Binding: Italian Duo-Tone Page Count: 1680 Pages Publisher: Zondervan Publication Date: March 2008 ISBN-10: 0310269741 ISBN-13: 9780310269748 Based on the success Zondervan had with A Reader’s Greek New Testament, you knew it was only a matter of time before they’d put together a similar resource for [...]

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I’m excited to report that I just registered for the Hebrew I class offered at The Bethlehem Institute.  Hebrew is an area in which I’m not highly proficient at this point.  I had 2.5 years of Greek during my undergraduate studies, but only took 1 semester of Hebrew.  I love Old Testament and I’m sure [...]

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