HEBR/REL-131:
Elementary Biblical Hebrew I -
Index to Information
about the Course

Spring 2010 Semesters, the one and only Section

Announcements and Record of Updates:

· 21 Apr 2010, 1845 hrs: A revised and updated Verb Conjugation Chart is now posted.

· 19 Apr 2010, 2000 hrs: Assignments are now posted to the end of the semester. Please do the reading part of Assignment 10 by this coming Thursday, 22 April. Because of the lateness of the posting, I will not collect the written assignments until Tuesday, 27 April. Assignment 11 is due on 29 April 2010.

· 28 Mar 2010, 2245 hrs: Reminder of announcements that were made in class last Thursday: (1) Class will not meet this coming Tuesday, 30 March 2010 or on the following Tuesday, 06 April 2010. Instead, extra-heavy-duty assignments have been made for the next two weeks. (2) Assignment 7 (the first of the special assignments) is due on Thursday, 01 April 2010, when class will meet as usual. Prof. Frances Flannery will be conducting the class on that evening. (3) Assignment 8 (the other special assignment) is due on Thursday, 08 April 2010, when I expect to conduct class as usual. (4) Assignment 9, an ordinary assignment, is due on Thursday, 15 April 2010.

· 26 Mar 2010, 0545 hrs: Assignments 1 through 9 are now posted.

· 19 Mar 2010, 1435 hrs:
(1) Assignments 1 through six, which were given out last night in class in hardcopy form, are now posted on this web page.
(2) the four tables from chapter 3 of my textbook — Tables 3-4 through 3-7 — are now complete and are also posted here. Hardcopies of these tables are available in the envelope that is taped to the door of my office (Cleveland 312). Pick up a copy if you like.
(3) There will be a quiz in class this coming Thursday (25 March 2010), which will cover the material through Assignment 6, including not only the writing and the spelling, but also the reading exercises, to include especially reading from the TaNaKH, so be sure to work very diligently on the assigned University of Texas readings.

· 17 Feb 20110, 0200 hrs: Assignment 3 has been distributed to the class via E-mail.

Documents Pertaining to the Course:

Course Syllabus (Adobe Acrobat “.pdf” file)

Course Map (Adobe Acrobat “.pdf” file)

Assignments (Adobe Acrobat “.pdf” file)

Textbooks and Required Materials (Adobe Acrobat “.pdf” file)

Slides shown in class — not yet posted (Adobe Acrobat “.pdf” file)

Verb Conjugation Practice Chart (Adobe Acrobat “.pdf” file)

Tutorials written by Dr. Abzug:

Learning to Read Hebrew: (Adobe Acrobat “.pdf” file)

Instructions for Writing the Cursive Aleph-Bet: (Adobe Acrobat “.pdf” file)

Tutorial and Exercises in the Pronunciation of Hebrew Consonants and Vowels, and in the Reading of Hebrew Text. (Adobe Acrobat “.pdf” file)

Other Useful Documents and URLs:

University of Texas: Various Tutorials on the Reading and Writing of Hebrew

University of Texas Readings from Selected Biblical Texts (Index to individual texts))

URLs pertaining to the Aleph-Bet:

Nice illustrations of all the letters in a typical printer’s font for regular Hebrew, as well as for Hebrew script. Also illustrates notation of vowels: http://www.jewfaq.org/alephbet.htm

Instructions for writing the cursive Aleph-Bet: http://www.foundationstone.com.au/HtmlSupport/OnlineHebrewTutorial/Html/22_AppendixB.html

Drawings of the letters, with a printable-cuttable-&-pastable flashcard for each letter: http://www.akhlah.com/Aleph_Bet/aleph-bet.asp

Precise delineation of the requirements in Jewish law as to how the individual letters of the TaNaKh must be written by the scribe: http://www.safrus.com/alephbet.html;
NOTE that you can click on each Hebrew letter to obtain a magnified view of it.

A snazzy-looking Hebrew font from the Society for Biblical Literature: http://www.sbl-site.org/Resources/default.aspx

Components of the TaNaKh (Adobe Acrobat “.pdf” file)

Scanned handwritten text of M’gillat Esther (Adobe Acrobat “.pdf” file)

T’hillim-145 (Adobe Acrobat “.pdf” file)

Abbott & Costello Learn Hebrew

Internet Resources for Hebrew (Adobe Acrobat “.pdf” file)

Biographical essay on Eliezer Ben-Yehudah, who was responsible in the main for the revival of the Hebrew language as a vernacular: http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/biography/ben_yehuda.html