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Hebrew for the Rest of Us: Using Hebrew Tools without Mastering Biblical Hebrew is unavailable, but you can change that!

This is a companion volume to Greek for the Rest of Us by William D. Mounce. This book is a guide for English-only readers to understand the language of the Old Testament just enough to work with the Old Testament in more detail and to understand the scholarly literature on the Hebrew Bible. It specifically aids students in learning: • Why translations differ • How to do Hebrew word studies...

systems of vowel pointing known today as the Palestinian, Babylonian, and Tiberian systems. These systems were designed in such a way that vowel sounds could be indicated by adding marks to the text without altering the Hebrew consonants in any way. The system that became standard is the Tiberian system developed by the Masoretes during the period A.D. 500–950. This is the system that you will be learning. A vowel is a sound made by passing air through the throat and mouth with no
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