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.

Prerequisites:
AH101 and AH102 or equivalent

Requirements:
regular meetings throughout the semester

Assessment:

• regular short tests - 50%
• one 2 hour written examination - 50%

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.

• Bennett, Patrick R. Comparative Semitic Linguistics: A Manual. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1998.
• Brown, Francis, et al. A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament: With an Appendix containing the Biblical Aramaic. Oxford: Clarendon, 1907.
• 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 E. Kautzsch and A. 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 T. 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.