Languages: The Basics

Fundamental Biblical Hebrew serves as an easy-to-use reference tool, covering vocabulary, morphology, and syntax. This complete textbook is suitable for university and seminary courses as well as for pastors engaged in the study of the Bible in its original languages.

Fundamental Biblical Aramaic enables students who posess a working knowledge of biblical Hebrew to quickly gain proficiency in biblical Aramaic. The exercises are drawn from the Bible, exposing the student to actual biblical Aramaic while learning the grammar.

While the second edition is more accessible than the first, Pratico/Van Pelt have put together an excellent introductory Hebrew grammar.

This workbook compliments the information presented in Pratico/Van Pelt's Basics of Biblical Hebrew. It is particularly helpful for anyone wanting to stay fresh with their Hebrew training between exegetical courses, or for anyone wanting extra training examples to pass their qualifiers.

In Biblical Hebrew Grammar Visualized, Andersen and Forbes approach the grammar of Biblical Hebrew from the perspective of corpus linguistics. Their pictorial representations of the clauses making up the biblical texts show the grammatical functions (subject, object, and so on) and semantic roles (surrogate, time interval, and so on) of clausal constituents, as well as the grammatical relations that bind the constituents into coherent structures.

The book is intended for students of Biblical Hebrew at all levels. Beginning students will readily grasp the basic grammatical structures making up the clauses, because these are few and fairly simple. Intermediate and advanced students will profit from the detailed descriptions and comparative analyses of all of the structures making up the biblical texts. Scholars will find fresh ways of addressing open problems, while gaining glimpses of new research approaches and topics along the way.

Beginning Biblical Hebrew includes fifty brief grammar lessons with accompanying workbook-style exercises, appendixes providing more detailed explanations, and a full-color reader--bound at the back of the book for right-to-left reading--that incorporates comics, line drawings, and numerous exercises, all in Hebrew. This work offers a realistic approach to beginning Hebrew, helping students comprehend texts without overloading them with too much information.

A tested approach to learning biblical Hebrew in an ideal package for the first-year Hebrew student. This clear, accurate, and pedagogically sound textbook emphasizes the basics: Hebrew phonology (sounds) and morphology (forms). This grammar does not use jargon or technical language, but uses terms easily understood and remembered so biblical Hebrew can be used with regularity and authority.

Fundamental Greek Grammar: 4th Edition provides the basis for solid instruction in New Testament Greek vocabulary, morphology, and syntax. It takes a fundamental approach, moving from the known to the unknown, from the easy to the more difficult. Dr. Voelz understands that learning a complex language is difficult, and he seeks to explain things in detail every step of the way. Fundamental Greek Grammar: 4th Edition includes vocabulary, paradigms, principal parts, exercises with answer key, pertinent Bible passages, and more.

Updated edition features "English Review for Greek," a refresher of English grammar basics.

Mounce's Basics of Biblical Greek is a very approachable introduction to the language. Our library does not have his most up-to-date edition which is even more useful. It can be found through Mobius and inter-library-loan as well.

The Basics of New Testament Syntax provides concise, up-to-date guidance for intermediate Greek students to do accurate exegesis of biblical texts. Abridged from Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics: An Exegetical Syntax of the New Testament, the popular exegetical Greek grammar for studies in Greek by Daniel B. Wallace, The Basics of New Testament Syntax offers a practical grammar for second-year students.The strengths of this abridgment will become quickly apparent to the user:• It shows the relevance of syntax for exegesis and is thoroughly cross-referenced to Exegetical Syntax.• It includes an exceptional number of categories useful for intermediate Greek studies.• It is easy to use. Each semantic category is discussed, and a definition and key to identification are provided.• Scores of charts and tables are included to enable the intermediate student to grasp the material quickly.

This book is (as its title suggests) for those who have moved past the basics. There is a copy in the Reference section, which always remains in the library; there is a copy usually kept on Closed-Reserve for exegetical classes; and there is usually one circulating with the rest of the collection.