2026–2027: 2 Kings 21–25.
Led by Bernard Bell
Date: Oct 29, 2026 – May 27, 2027 [Thursdays]
Time: 7:30-9:00 am
Venue: PBCC Library & MS Teams (hybrid class)
Bernard will be on sabbatical Sept 6–Oct 18. Class will resume on Oct 29.
We have the last five chapters of 2 Kings to read.
If you have any questions please contact Bernard Bell.
Schedule
| Fall | 2026 | Winter | 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Text | Date | Text |
| Oct 29 | 2 Kgs 21:1- | Jan 7 | |
| Nov 5 | Jan 14 | ||
| Nov 12 | Jan 21 | ||
| Nov 19 | Jan 28 | ||
| Nov 26 | Thanksgiving | Feb 4 | |
| Dec 3 | Feb 11 | ||
| Dec 10 | Feb 18 | ||
| Dec 19 | Feb 25 | ||
| Dec 24 | break | Mar 4 | |
| Dec 31 | break | Mar 11 | |
| Mar 18 | |||
| Mar 25 | |||
| Apr 1 | Easter break | ||
| Apr 8 | |||
| Apr 15 | |||
| Apr 22 | |||
| Apr 29 | |||
| May 6 | |||
| May 13 | |||
| May 20 | |||
| May 27 |
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: 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.