Michael Carasik – Biblical Hebrew: Learning a Sacred Language

Michael Carasik – Biblical Hebrew: Learning a Sacred Language

Most of us first encounter the Hebrew Bible (what Christians call the Old Testament) in translation. We, therefore view it through the lens of someone else’s interpretation, however venerable that interpretation may be. But for many centuries, before translations made the text of the Bible accessible to people around the world, it was read and interpreted in its original language, ancient Hebrew. Jews continue to read the Bible in that language today, and so can you.

Lecture 1 – Studying Biblical Hebrew
Lecture 2 – Learning the Aleph Bes
Lecture 3 – The Tiberian Vowel System
Lecture 4 – Roots of Semitic Verbs
Lecture 5 – Hebrew Verb Forms and the Definite Article
Lecture 6 – Hebrew’s Attached Prepositions
Lecture 7 – Adjective Forms and Agreement in Hebrew
Lecture 8 – Irregular Hebrew Nouns and Adjectives
Lecture 9 – Hebrew Pronouns and Pronominal Suffixes
Lecture 10 – How Hebrew Letters Behave
Lecture 11 – Perfect and Imperfect Hebrew Verbs
Lecture 12 – Segholate Nouns and Pausal Forms
Lecture 13 – The Construct Form: Hebrew’s Trailer Hitch
Lecture 14 – Forming Hebrew Construct Chains
Lecture 15 – Hebrew Verb Classifications: Binyanim
Lecture 16 – Question Words in Hebrew
Lecture 17 – Hebrew Participles
Lecture 18 – Counting in Hebrew
Lecture 19 – Hebrew Roots with Guttural Letters
Lecture 20 – Hebrewfs Lamed.Hey Roots
Lecture 21 – Hebrew Roots Beginning with Yud
Lecture 22 – Irregular Hebrew Verbs
Lecture 23 – Hebrewfs Hollow Verbs
Lecture 24 – The Infinitive in Hebrew
Lecture 25 – Jussives, Cohortatives, and “Hava Nagila”
Lecture 26 – The Imperative Form in Hebrew
Lecture 27 – Verbs of the Hiphil Binyan
Lecture 28 – Piel Verbs and Passive Binyanim
Lecture 29 – Reflexive Binyanim: Niphal and Hitpa’el
Lecture 30 – Reading the Bible in Hebrew: Joshua 1
Lecture 31 – Geminate Verbs and Reading Numbers 22
Lecture 32 – Hebrewfs Object Suffixes
Lecture 33 – Hebrew Oaths and Other Idioms
Lecture 34 – Understanding Hebrew Punctuation Marks
Lecture 35 – Choosing a Hebrew Bible
Lecture 36 – Helpful Hebrew Reference Books