2025–2026: 2 Kings 9–20
Led by Bernard Bell
Date: Sep 18, 2025 – May 7, 2026 [Thursdays]
Time: 7:30-9:00 am
Venue: PBCC Library & Zoom (hybrid class)
If you have any questions please contact Bernard Bell.
Schedule
| Fall | 2025 | Winter | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Text | Date | Text |
| Sep 18 | 2 Kgs 9:1-16 | Jan 1 | no class |
| Sep 25 | 9:17-33 | Jan 8 | 15:8-26 |
| Oct 2 | 9:34–10:11 | Jan 15 | 15:27–16:9 |
| Oct 9 | 10:12-28 | Jan 22 | 16:10-18 |
| Oct 16 | 10:29–11:3 | Jan 29 | 16:19–17:9 |
| Oct 23 | 11:4-14 | Feb 5 | reading BHS |
| Oct 30 | 11:15–12:6 | Feb 12 | 17:10-23 |
| Nov 6 | 12:7-22 | Feb 19 | no class |
| Nov 13 | 13:1-13 | Feb 26 | Gen 22:1-19 |
| Nov 20 | 13:14-25 | Mar 5 | 2 Kgs 17:24-41 |
| Nov 27 | Thanksgiving | Mar 12 | 18:1-17 |
| Dec 4 | 14:1-16 | Mar 19 | 18:18-35 |
| Dec 11 | 14:17–15:7 | Mar 26 | 18:36–19:19 |
| Dec 18 | no class | Apr 2 | no class |
| Dec 25 | Christmas | Apr 9 | no class |
| Apr 16 | 19:20-31 | ||
| Apr 23 | 19:32–20:6 | ||
| Apr 30 | no class | ||
| May 7 | 20:7-21 |
Text files (pdf): 2 Kings: Hebrew | NET Bible.
Hebrew Bible is BHS, triple-spaced. NET Bible with notes is 1st ed. (1996).
Audio files (mp3): 2 Kings by chapter: 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25.
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
Audio files – the Hebrew Bible, read in Sephardic pronunciation by Fr. Abraham Schmuelof (1913-1994): one mp3 file per chapter (formerly hosted by Audio Scriptures International, then by Academy of Ancient Languages, now by Mechon Mamre).
Orthodox Jewish Bible (pdf) – 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.
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:
- Tyndale House, Cambridge: Unicode Font Kit (uses Cardo).
- SIL (Summer Institute of Linguistics): SIL Ezra (Hebrew); Charis, Doulos, Gentium (3 fonts using multilingual Latin-based alphabets, useful for transliteration); I generally use Gentium Plus.
- SBL (Society of Biblical Literature): SBL fonts: SBL Hebrew, SBL Greek, SBL BibLit.