I realize that I posted about Charles Grebe's website AnimatedHebrew.com only the other day; however, I spent a bit more time over there yesterday. And, I must say that the Jonah Comic is absolutely phenomenal. There are not many Biblical Hebrew learning products that I get very excited about since most of them seem to be a perpetuation of the same tired methods. It is simply that every publishing company has to have their own grammar, vocabulary resource, etc. Read More...

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I came across a blog post about my supervising professor Christo van der Merwe yesterday through my friend Karyn's blog (which I mistakenly labeled as "new" in one of my previous posts). She linked into a Hebrew and Greek reader blog post entitled The Bruce Lee of Biblical Hebrew. Apparently, my supervising professor is like Bruce Lee. Read the post for details, but to boil it down it is because of his "use whatever works approach" in terms of linguistics. I have met Christo on several occasions when he has come to deliver papers at academic meetings, and my guess is that he would find it amusing to be compared to Bruce Lee, but be very modest about it. Read More...

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Up to this point, I have only included on this site courses on the Old Testament, Old Testament history, Old Testament manuscripts, etc. However, this morning I found a free video course on Biblical Hebrew. I have looked around a significant amount for a good free Biblical Hebrew course and this is the first one I thought would be worthy of a post. The course is on the site AnimatedHebrew.com. In addition, to the free Hebrew course, there is also a Jonah comic (very cool) in Hebrew and an audio recording of the exercises in Introducing Biblical Hebrew by Allen Ross. Thanks to Charles Grebe for putting together what looks like a very helpful site for those wanting to learn Biblical Hebrew, especially through self-study. Read More...

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I wanted to let everyone know about a new blog related to Biblical Hebrew. This blog is by one of my friends and peers through the University of Stellenbosch Karyn Traphagen, who is doing doctoral work in Biblical Hebrew Pedagogy. On her blog she gives some helpful resources for learning Biblical Hebrew, discusses methodology, and lets you in on some of the goings on in her personal life. She has taught Biblical Hebrew at Westminster Theological Seminary in PA and like me is doing her doctoral work under Prof. Christo van der Merwe at Stellenbosch.

I'm quite impressed with the blog so far and hope you will link over there and check it out. The site is http://boulders2bits.com/. Read More...

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If you are looking for a good site for learning the Hebrew Aleph Bet, I would recommend the Hebrew site of the University of Texas at Austin. Esther Raizen has put together a number of helpful tutorials for learning the Aleph Bet (though these are for Modern Hebrew) all in flash format. The tutorials are especially helpful for those trying to learn through self-study because several of the tutorials include a native speaker pronouncing the names of the consonants. In addition, there is a puzzle game that will help one to learn the order of the consonants.
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In this post and in a few future posts, I will be giving some advice for those who may wish to learn Biblical Hebrew through self study. One of the most important decisions you will need to make is which grammar to use when studying Biblical Hebrew. For me, there is no question currently about which grammar beginners should use. I recommend that students start with John Dobson's Learn Biblical Hebrew. Read More...

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