Jacob's Dream

Hebrew Reading Group

2009–2010

Led by Bernard Bell:

Date: September 24 – December 17; January 7 – June 3 [Thursdays]
Time: 7:00 – 8:30 am
Venue: Room 205, PBCC

Schedule

We welcome students from last year's Beginning Hebrew class, which covered lessons 1-18 of John Dobson, Learn Biblical Hebrew (2d ed; Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2005). We’ll start by covering the remaining lessons, 19-25. Then we’ll read Joshua.

Dobson, Learn Biblical Hebrew Joshua
Date Material covered
lesson pages
Sep 24 intro to 19-22
19.1-9
226-237
Oct 1 19.10-12
Gen 41:1-13
237-240
Oct 8 Gen 41:14-31 239-240
Oct 15 Gen 41:32-43 239-240
Oct 22 20:1-6
Gen 41:44-49
241-250
Oct 29 Gen 41:50-42:6 250-251
Nov 5 Gen 42:7-25
Nov 12 Gen 42:26-38
Nov 19 21.1-4 252-261
Nov 26 Thanksgiving: no meeting
Dec 3 22.1-9 262-277
Dec 10 22.10 Jonah 2
23.1-2a
277-278
279-280
Dec 17 23.2b-8
Ps 115:1-11
281-292
Dec 24 CHRISTMAS BREAK
Dec 31 CHRISTMAS BREAK
Jan 7 no class
Jan 14 24.1-10 295-314
Jan 21 24.10
Exod 20:1-17; Deut 5
315
Jan 28 25.1-7 316-327
Feb 4 25.8-10
Gen 4:23-24; 5:1-2
327-331
Feb 11 Gen 5:3-6:8  
Date Text
Feb 18 Josh 1:1-9
Feb 25 Josh 1:10-2:4
Mar 4 Josh 2:5-13
Mar 11 Josh 2:14-24
Mar 18 no class
Mar 25 Josh 3:1-17
Apr 1 no class
Apr 8 Josh 4:1-
Apr 15 Josh 5:1-9
Apr 22 Josh 5:10-6:11
Apr 29 Josh 6:12-27
May 6 Josh 7:1-9
May 13 Josh 7:10-23
May 20 Josh 7:24-8:8
May 27 Josh 8:9-23
Jun 3 Josh 8:24-

Hebrew text (pdf): Gen 41-42; Exod 20:1-17; Deut 5; Gen 5:1-6:8.
NET Bible (pdf): Joshua.
Audio files (mp3): Gen 41, 42; Jonah 2; Exodus 20; Deuteronomy 5.
    Joshua 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15.

Other Handouts

Hebrew Verb Charts - a pdf document containing four charts: The Strong Verb, The Stem System, Verb Forms, Mechanical Parsing.

Hebrew 101: The first-year Hebrew class at PBCC 2008-09.

Helpful Internet Resources

NET Bible, fonts for NET Bible.

Audio files - mp3 files of the Hebrew text: the files that used to be hosted by Audio Scriptures International.

Orthodox Jewish Bible - translated by Dr. Phillip Goble of Artists for Israel International. All significant Hebrew words (or in the NT the Hebrew words lying behind the Greek ones) are transliterated rather than translated into English, so as to enhance recognition of significant words, themes and ideas. The entire Bible (both Tanakh and Brit Chadasha = New Testament) is available by individual chapter. In addition the Brit Chadasha (New Testament) is also available as a single pdf file.

Online bar/bat mitvah tutor - here you can hear the Hebrew text sung. Offered by World ORT, a Jewish educational site.

Unicode Texts: from Tyndale House (MT, LXX, GNT).

Unicode Fonts:

iTanakh - a gateway to Internet resources for the study of the Tanakh, the Hebrew Bible.