HEBREW FOR LIFE

Strategies for Learning, Retaining, and Reviving

Biblical Hebrew

Adam J. Howell, Benjamin L. Merkle, and Robert L. Plummer

Foreword by Miles V. Van Pelt

a division of Baker Publishing Group

Grand Rapids, Michigan

© 2020 by Adam J. Howell, Benjamin L. Merkle, and Robert L. Plummer

Published by Baker Academic

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Howell, Adam J., 1980– author. | Merkle, Benjamin L., 1971– author. | Plummer, Robert L. (Robert Lewis), 1971– author.

Title: Hebrew for life : strategies for learning, retaining, and reviving biblical Hebrew / Adam J. Howell, Benjamin L. Merkle, and Robert L. Plummer ; foreword by Miles V. Van Pelt.

Description: Grand Rapids : Baker Academic, a division of Baker Publishing Group, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019031834 | ISBN 9781540961464 (paperback)

Subjects: LCSH: Hebrew language—Textbooks. | Hebrew language—Grammar.

Classification: LCC PJ4567.3 .H69 2020 | DDC 492.4/5—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019031834

ISBN 978-1-5409-6275-1 (casebound)

Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture translations are the author’s own.

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