It does not appear that there are very many free Hebrew instructional grammars on the web. (I've paid for my share of Hebrew grammars! I'm just saying, if someone wanted to check it out for free...) The only ones I could find (and these are not necessarily recommendations, but I have * ones that look most helpful) are:
UPDATE: 2008.03.14 - SCSaunders on the BibleWorks forum found a few more resources worth noting.
BTW, for an excellent summary of Hebrew grammars available for purchase, check this post over on Codex.
- A Concise Linguistic e-Introduction to Classical Hebrew (Vincent DeCaen, Univ. of Toronto): Appears to be abandoned, and Lessons 2-5 are missing which pretty much disallow a beginner who needs to learn the alphabet...
- The Online Hebrew Tutorial (FoundationStone): Modern / spoken Hebrew
- *[UPDATE] Fred Putnam has published Toward Reading & Understanding Biblical Hebrew, a complete 343 page grammar he has developed over many years of teaching.
This textbook is intended for a university classroom. It is divided into thirty lessons, corresponding to the typical thirty-week academic year. Following the sequence of lessons will provide the average student with a cutting-edge understanding of ancient Hebrew grammar and will enable the student to read both prose passages and less complex poems from biblical and non-biblical texts. Additionally, the textbook introduces the student to the standard Biblical Hebrew lexicon [BDB] and includes an appendix on the Masoretic “accents,” which may be incorporated into the sequence of lessons at whatever point the instructor desires.Thank you to Cook and Holmstedt for sharing this resource which looks to be a competent and reliable guide.
Because of the variety of first-year biblical Hebrew textbooks currently available, it is worth briefly noting what this textbook is not: it is not a reference grammar; it is not meant to be used without supplementation from the instructor; it is not meant for self-study; it is not theologically oriented. What this textbook does not do represents fairly well the character of almost every other available textbook, and thereby indicates that there exists a significant lacuna in the world of Hebrew textbooks. This textbook is intended to fill this hole.
UPDATE: 2008.03.14 - SCSaunders on the BibleWorks forum found a few more resources worth noting.
- *A helpful, well organized PDF Hebrew Verb Chart.
- *Animated Hebrew: Contains quite a few resources for learning Hebrew, including:
- Vocabulary and Verb Flashcards (using Shockwave; web and downloadable)
- Charts and worksheets
- A full set of video lectures based on Introducing Biblical Hebrew by Allen P. Ross
- And just for fun, Abbott and Costello Learn Hebrew
- and more...
- *Davar Biblical Hebrew Vocabularies from the University of Auckland (noted by Tim Bulkeley in the comments) - Great vocabulary tool; sort by Hebrew, English gloss, root, semantic domain, or frequency.
- **CHECK THIS SITE: I had forgotten the list of Hebrew study resources provided by Ralph Klein from the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago. (From the menu on the left, use "Biblical Studies Misc" > "Hebrew") Quite a few PDF Hebrew Helps files of his own along with links to Vocabulary aids, Lexicons, Grammars, and more.
BTW, for an excellent summary of Hebrew grammars available for purchase, check this post over on Codex.
Thanks for this, I am passing it on to my colleagues who actually teach the Hebrew. For your vocabs do look at http://cfdl.auckland.ac.nz/hebrew/ there are over 500 words already entered in multimedia format which you can select and output as vocabularies to suit the textbook you are using. If you need other words you can register and get a login to also upload new data...
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ReplyDeleteThanks Tim, I just bookmarked the page.
You can learn the basics of Biblical Hebrew grammar (and more) at the Hebrew4Christians site. It's free with plenty of PDF downloads and audio files.
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Thanks for those links on the Hebrew text. If you get any more links like these to resources for Biblical Hebrew, please keep blogging about them!
ReplyDeleteThis is great information – its encouraging to see online education is becoming
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Your link to the Codex post on Hebrew grammars is broken. The correct one now is: http://biblical-studies.ca/hebrew/intro-hebrew.html. I htink the difference might be an underscore in your link vs. a dash in the correct one.
ReplyDeleteThanks for this wonderful post.
Davar vocabularies site appears to have relocated to
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