2024–2025: Numbers
Led by Bernard Bell
Date: Sep 19, 2024 – Apr 24, 2025 [Thursdays]
Time: 7:30-9:00 am
Venue: PBCC Library & Zoom (hybrid class)
We are taking a break from 2 Kings (we reached the end of ch. 8) to read selections from Numbers, in parallel with our Women’s Bible Studies.
If you have any questions please contact Bernard Bell.
Schedule
| Fall | 2022 | Winter | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Text | Date | Text |
| Sep 19 | 1–2 | Jan 2 | no class |
| Sep 26 | 3–6 | Jan 9 | 22 |
| Oct 3 | 7–10 | Jan 16 | 23–24 |
| Oct 10 | 11 | Jan 23 | 25 |
| Oct 17 | 12 | Jan 30 | 26–30 |
| Oct 24 | 13–14 | Feb 6 | 31 |
| Oct 31 | 15 | Feb 13 | 32 |
| Nov 7 | 16 | Feb 20 | ? |
| Nov 14 | 17-19 | Feb 27 | 33–34 |
| Nov 21 | 20 | Mar 6 | 35–36 |
| Nov 28 | Thanksgiving | Mar 13 | Deut 1–3 |
| Dec 5 | 21 | Mar 20 | Deut 4 |
| Dec 12 | TBD | Mar 27 | TBD |
| Dec 19 | Christmas break | Apr 3 | |
| Dec 26 | Christmas break | Apr 10 | |
| Apr 17 | |||
| Apr 24 |
Text files (pdf): Numbers: Hebrew | NET Bible. 2 Kings: Hebrew | NET Bible.
Hebrew Bible is BHS, triple-spaced. NET Bible with notes is 1st ed. (1996).
Audio files (mp3): Numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. 2 Kings 9, 10.
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.