Beginning Biblical Hebrew / Edition 1

by Mark D. Futato

Overview

Achieving the right balance of amount of information, style of presentation, and depth of instruction in first-year grammars is no easy task. But Mark Futato has produced a grammar that, after years of testing in a number of institutions, will please many, with its concise, clear, and well-thought-out presentation of Biblical Hebrew. Because the teaching of biblical languages is in decline in many seminaries and universities, Futato takes pains to measure the amount of information presented in each chapter in a way that makes the quantity digestible, without sacrificing information that is important to retain. The book includes exercises that are drawn largely from the Hebrew Bible itself.

Fourth printing, 2012.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781575060224
Publisher:	Penn State University Press
Publication date:	06/30/2003
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	368
Sales rank:	1,011,862
Product dimensions:	8.80(w) x 11.20(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Mark D. Futato is Robert L. Maclellan Professor of Old Testament at Reformed Theological Seminary.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

1. THE ALPHABET

2. THE VOWELS

3. SYLLABLES, SHEVA, AND STRONG DAGESH

4. THE NOUN: BASIC FORMS

5. PRONOUNS AND THE DEFINITE ARTICLE

6. THE VERB: QAL PERFECT

7. SENTENCES WITH VERBS

8. THE NOUN: VOWEL CHANGES

9. PREPOSITIONS AND VAV CONJUNCTION

10. THE ADJECTIVE

11. THE VERB: QAL IMPERFECT

12. CONSTRUCT RELATIONSHIP: SINGULAR

13. CONSTRUCT RELATIONSHIP: PLURAL

14. QAL PERFECT AND IMPERFECT: WEAK ROOTS

15. QAL PERFECT AND IMPERFECT: I NUN AND III HEY

16. POSSESSIVE SUFFIXES ON SINGULAR NOUNS

17. DEMONSTRATIVE AND RELATIVE PRONOUNS

18. QAL IMPERFECT: I YOD AND I ALEF

19. POSSESSIVE SUFFIXES ON PLURAL NOUNS

20. THE VERB: QAL INFINITIVES

21. THE VERB: QAL ACTIVE PARTICIPLE

22. PRONOUN SUFFIXES ON PREPOSITIONS

23. THERE IS (NOT) AND HAVE (NOT)

24. THE VERB: QAL VOLITIVES

25. QAL: HOLLOW VERBS

26. THE VERB: VAV-RELATIVE

27. CLAUSES: TEMPORAL AND INTERROGATIVE

28. THE PIEL: STRONG ROOTS

29. THE PIEL: WEAK ROOTS

30. NUMBERS AND “SURPRISE”

31. THE HIPHIL: STRONG ROOTS

32. THE HIPHIL: I GUTTURAL AND I NUN

33. THE HIPHIL: I YOD

34. THE HIPHIL: III HEY AND HOLLOW

35. MORE ON PRONOUN SUFFIXES

36. THE NIPHAL: STRONG ROOTS

37. THE NIPHAL: WEAK ROOTS

38. MORE PASSIVE VERBS: QAL, PUAL, AND HOPHAL

39. THE VERB: THE HITHPAEL

40. THE VERB: GEMINATE ROOTS

PARADIGMS

VOCABULARY

ANSWERS TO PRACTICE DRILLS

INDEX OF TOPICS

INDEX OF HEBREW TERMS