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| Basics of Biblical Hebrew: Workbook, 2nd Edition | 
 enlarge | Authors: Gary D. Pratico, Miles V. Van Pelt
Publisher: Zondervan
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 78706
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0310270227
Dewey Decimal Number: 220
EAN: 9780310270225
ASIN: 0310270227
Publication Date: August 1, 2007
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Product Description
The Basics of Biblical Hebrew Workbook has just gotten better. In order to keep students from becoming discouraged, especially in the beginning stages, the authors have decided to give more vocabulary aid, so students do not have to spend all their time trying to look up words in a dictionary. Many of the minor changes in this workbook have come as a result of professor and student feedback.
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 Pretty practical November 18, 2008
It is a pretty practical Hebrew Language review book.
But definitely it needs a good teacher to go, and to help you as long as
there is problem. So it is not a self-learning book like the Bible.
It is a teaching tool for the teacher, and an exercise book for the learners.
 wonderfully helpful October 6, 2008
Great tool. Clear, concise, to the point. Arrange in a helpful way, less confusing than other grammars.
Excellent learning tool! March 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is a great addition to the textbook. It reinforces the Hebrew learned in the textbook, through translating and practicing the specifics of each lesson.
easy to use workbook March 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I use this as an adjuvant to my classes, just to get extra practice. Even though it is oriented to Christian students, the Hebrew is sound for my Jewish studies. One good point: the 'font' size of the Hebrew is large enough that you don't need a magnifying glass to read the vowel points! And the answer key is internet based, which is convenient for juggling page and answer key!
Better than the companion grammar "Basics of Biblical Hebrew". December 21, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This workbook is better than the Basics of Biblical Hebrew grammar book. This workbook has many different phrases, sentences, and scripture passages for you to read from, and helps to build a strong foundation in terms of applied Hebrew grammar, and inductive exposure to the language.
There are many inflected verbal forms in this workbook that are not broken down into their stem, tense, person, number, or gender, and all you are given is their inflected definition at the bottom of the page. Treat these words as if they were vocbulary words, and memorize them in their current form.
For example, the Hebrew word "vay-yomer" means "And he said". This is a Hebrew word in the imperfect state with what is called the "vav/waw conversive". However, the workbook does not tell you this information. It only tells you that "vay-yomer" means "and he said". Treat this word as if it were a vocabulary word, and memorize both it's current form and definition. By doing this, you're actually simulating natural learning process. You will be picking up on prefixes, suffixes, and inflected verbal stem forms without actually being formally introduced to them, so that when the time comes to introduce them in your Hebrew grammar study, you will already be familiar with them in an intuitive sense.
If what I said sounds like a bunch of jibberish, I'll put it another way. Suppose a someone said, "Tim went to the store, him will be back later", and you overheard it. Naturally, you know from natural exposure to the English langauge that this is improper grammar. The word "him" is the objective form of "he", while "he" is the subjective form which should be used in place of "him" in the example sentence given. However, we native English speakers don't "think" about making such a transition in our minds. We speak the language based on how we've learned it through natural exposure, and thus we know intuitively to say "he", and not "him" in such instances. The same methodology is applied in this workbook for certain words, especially verbal forms. This is truly important when learning Hebrew because the verbal system in Hebrew can be VERY cumbersome at first glance.
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