Beginning Biblical Hebrew
Mark D. Futato
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.
- Description
- Bio
- Table of Contents
- Sample Chapters
- Errata
Fourth printing, 2012.
Mark D. Futato is Robert L. Maclellan Professor of Old Testament at Reformed Theological Seminary.
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
Download a PDF sample chapter here: Introduction
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