(3 semester hours)
After completing this course, students will be able to describe the phonology,
morphology and main syntactic features of Biblical Hebrew. They will be
able to recognize and explain the primary range of meaning of the five
hundred most frequently used words (i.e., 500 dictionary entry forms)
in the Hebrew Bible. They will be able to read fluently and with understanding
a Biblical Hebrew text minimum five chapters) that they have previously
studied and to explain any grammatical form within that text. They will
also be able to read and translate other texts from the Hebrew Bible with
the help of reference aids.