You may pick up a copy of this Handbook, look at the Table of Contents, examine the detailed presentation of Phonology, the unusual Synoptic Paradigms, and the quantity of Hebrew to be read (about 15 chapters), and be tempted to put it aside with the comment, “It won’t work!” Or you may have had some experience with “the inductive method,” and found that, while it is certainly a more enjoyable method of learning, nothing is really learned. At the end of the course the student still