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Learning to Read Biblical Hebrew: An Introductory Grammar is unavailable, but you can change that!

Read the Old Testament in its original language. Learning to Read Biblical Hebrew teaches the basics of Hebrew grammar, vocabulary, and syntax. The step-by-step approach offers thorough illustration by means of biblical examples, logically presenting all the basic elements of Hebrew grammar. This study communicates in a clear language, moves at a reasonable pace, and teaches using a deductive...

Most Hebrew prepositions stand as independent words, such as the preposition אֶל (“to, into, toward”), which was introduced in the previous lesson. For example, אֶל stands alone in אֶל־הַכֹּהֵן (“to the priest” [Lv 2:8]). While this prepositional phrase shows a maqqef linking the independent preposition to its object, a maqqef is not required, as illustrated by אֶל כָּל־הַחַיִּים (“to all of the living” [Ecc
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