This unit is designed to enable students with a background in Biblical Hebrew to advance their Hebrew skills through the guided reading of selected Hebrew texts. Passages will be chosen from both prose (Standard Biblical Hebrew) and poetic texts (Archaic Biblical Hebrew), with a majority taken from the poetic texts. Attention will be given to a morphological and syntactical explanation of the texts as well as to text critical matters.

Undergraduate Prerequisites

AH101 and AH102 or equivalent

Graduate and Postgraduate Prerequisites

AH101 and AH102 or equivalent

Requirements

3 hours per week

Undergraduate Assessment

Graduate and Postgraduate Assessment (AH301)

Equivalent to 6,000 words. Save
See Coursework Assessment for Graduate and Postgraduate Students.

Prescribed Texts

• Holladay, William L. A Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament: Based upon the Lexical work of Ludwig Koehler and Walter Baumgartner. Leiden: Brill, 1971.
• Any advanced grammar of Biblical Hebrew.

Bibliography

• Bennett, Patrick R. Comparative Semitic Linguistics: A Manual. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1998.
• Brown, Francis, Samuel R. Driver and Charles A. Briggs. The New Brown-Driver-Briggs-Gesenius Hebrew and English Lexicon: With an Appendix containing the Biblical Aramaic. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1979.
• Even-Shoshan, Abraham, ed. A New Concordance of the Old Testament: Thesaurus of the Language of the Bible Hebrew and Aramaic Roots, Words, Proper Names, Phrases and Synonyms. 2nd ed. Jerusalem: Kiryat Sepher, 1993.
• Gesenius, Wilhelm. Gesenius’ Hebrew Grammar. 2nd ed. Edited by Emil Kautzsch and Arthur E. Cowley. Oxford: Blackwell, 1974.
• Gibson, John C. L. Davidson’s Introductory Hebrew Grammar – Syntax. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1994.
• Joüon, Paul. A Grammar of Biblical Hebrew. 2nd ed. Translated and revised by Takamitsu Muraoka. Rome: Editrice Pontificio Istituto Biblico, 2006.
• Koehler, Ludwig, and Walter Baumgartner. The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament. 5 vols. Revised by Walter Baumgartner, Johann J. Stamm, et al. Translated and edited by M. E. J. Richardson, et al. Leiden: Brill, 1994–2000.
• Van der Merwe, Christo H. J., Jackie A. Naudé, and Jan H. Kroeze. A Biblical Hebrew Reference Grammar. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic, 1999.
• Waltke, Bruce K., and Michael P. O’Connor. An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1990.
• Williams, Ronald J. Hebrew Syntax: An Outline. 2nd ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004.