Beginning Biblical Hebrew / / Mark D. Futato.

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• VerfasserIn: Futato, Mark D.,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)

Achieving the right balance of amount of information, style of presentation, and depth of instruction in first-year grammars is no easy task. But Mark Futato has produced a grammar that, after years of testing in a number of institutions, will please many, with its concise, clear, and well-thought-out presentation of Biblical Hebrew. Because the teaching of biblical languages is in decline in many seminaries and universities, Futato takes pains to measure the amount of information presented in each chapter in a way that makes the quantity digestible, without sacrificing information that is important to retain. The book includes exercises that are drawn largely from the Hebrew Bible itself.Fourth printing, 2012.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. THE ALPHABET -- 2. THE VOWELS -- 3. SYLLABLES, SHEVA, AND STRONG DAGESH -- 4. THE NOUN: BASIC FORMS -- 5. PRONOUNS AND THE DEFINITE ARTICLE -- 6. THE VERB: QAL PERFECT -- 7. SENTENCES WITH VERBS -- 8. THE NOUN: VOWEL CHANGES -- 9. PREPOSITIONS AND VAV CONJUNCTION -- 10. THE ADJECTIVE -- 11. THE VERB: QAL IMPERFECT -- 12. CONSTRUCT RELATIONSHIP: SINGULAR -- 13. CONSTRUCT RELATIONSHIP: PLURAL -- 14. QAL PERFECT AND IMPERFECT: WEAK ROOTS -- 15. QAL PERFECT AND IMPERFECT: I NUN AND III HEY -- 16. POSSESSIVE SUFFIXES ON SINGULAR NOUNS -- 17. DEMONSTRATIVE AND RELATIVE PRONOUNS -- 18. QAL IMPERFECT: I YOD AND I ALEF -- 19. POSSESSIVE SUFFIXES ON PLURAL NOUNS -- 20. THE VERB: QAL INFINITIVES -- 21. THE VERB: QAL ACTIVE PARTICIPLE -- 22. PRONOUN SUFFIXES ON PREPOSITIONS -- 23. THERE IS (NOT) AND HAVE (NOT) -- 24. THE VERB: QAL VOLITIVES -- 25. QAL: HOLLOW VERBS -- 26. THE VERB: VAV-RELATIVE -- 27. CLAUSES: TEMPORAL AND INTERROGATIVE -- 28. THE PIEL: STRONG ROOTS -- 29. THE PIEL: WEAK ROOTS -- 30. NUMBERS AND “SURPRISE” -- 31. THE HIPHIL: STRONG ROOTS -- 32. THE HIPHIL: I GUTTURAL AND I NUN -- 33. THE HIPHIL: I YOD -- 34. THE HIPHIL: III HEY AND HOLLOW -- 35. MORE ON PRONOUN SUFFIXES -- 36. THE NIPHAL: STRONG ROOTS -- 37. THE NIPHAL: WEAK ROOTS -- 38. MORE PASSIVE VERBS: QAL, PUAL, AND HOPHAL -- 39. THE VERB: THE HITHPAEL -- 40. THE VERB: GEMINATE ROOTS -- PARADIGMS -- VOCABULARY -- ANSWERS TO PRACTICE DRILLS -- INDEX OF TOPICS -- INDEX OF HEBREW TERMS