It is approaching that time of the year again. The time when college and seminary students cram review the biblical languages and lament on how little study they accomplished over the summer. I am one of those lamenting but am blessed and thankful to be starting another semester of Hebrew.
Logos has provided a couple of great Hebrew and Greek paradigm charts in .pdf format for free download. Travel on over and scroll down to the bottom of the page for download links.
The Journal for the Evangelical Study of the Old Testament (JESOT) has published their first issue.
A few months back I posted info about the forthcoming Journal and how excited I was to stumble across its site.
The first issue includes articles by:
The book reviews section includes: Continue Reading…
Professor Jo Ann Hackett gives an introduction to the linguistic setting of Biblical Hebrew in her textbook, A Basic Introduction to Biblical Hebrew.
Biblical Hebrew (BH) is a member of the Canaanite branch of the Semitic language family, along with Phoenician, Moabite, Ammonite, and Edomite. It is also closely related to Aramaic, Ugaritic, and even Arabic. The literature of the Hebrew Bible extends from ca. 1100 B.C.E. to ca. 150 B.C.E. In the Bible itself, the word ‘Hebrew’ is not used by Israelites or Judahites to describe their own language. Instead, we have ‘the language of Canaan’ (Isa 19:18) and ‘Judahite’ (e.g. 2 Kgs 18:26 = Isa 36:11). The prologue to the Wisdom of Ben Sira (written in Greek) contains our first extant attestation of ‘Hebrew’ being used of the language: Ben Sira’s grandson claims to have translated his grandfather’s words from the original Hebrew.
Welcome! My name is Joshua Breland. I am a disciple of Christ, husband to Libby, and full time student.
