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An ideal textbook for the first-year Hebrew student, this clear, accurate, and pedagogically sound volume emphasizes the basics of Hebrew phonology (sounds) and morphology (forms). Free of jargon and technical language, Invitation to Biblical Hebrew uses easy-to-understand terminology and intuitive mnemonic techniques, so you can use biblical Hebrew with regularity and authority.

: The shewa is an impoverished vowel, the low rent district of Hebrew—some are vocal about it; others are silent. The shewa is two vertical dots under a letter (סְ) to indicate the absence of a vowel: 1. Silent shewa, the absence of any sound, ends a syllable. 2. Vocal shewa,1 an indistinct vocalic sound, begins a syllable. Vocal shewa comes in two flavors: simple vocal shewa, two vertical dots under a letter; composite shewa, a composite of a short vowel (Pataḥ,
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