A Workbook for Intermediate Hebrew: Grammar, Exegesis, and Commentary on Jonah and Ruth

by Robert B. Chisholm Jr.

Designed to engage the Hebrew text and reinforce patterns and principles of Hebrew grammar and syntax, this new resource will be especially welcomed by students nearing the end of first-year Hebrew and intermediate students. The student is expertly guided by well-crafted questions related to morphology and syntax and asked to provide a rough translation and to outline the structure of each passage. Answers to all questions are provided, which gives students instant feedback. A Workbook for Intermediate Hebrew can be easily used in conjunction with most Hebrew grammars. References to Pratico and Van Pelt are included in the text itself; additional grammars, commentaries, lexicons, and other reference works are mentioned in the footnotes. Both a useful parsing guide and glossary are also included.

304 pages, Paperback

First published August 17, 2006

About the author

While Dr. Chisholm enjoys teaching the full breadth of Old Testament Studies, he takes special delight in the major and minor prophets. He can take the intricacies of those books and communicate them for marketplace use, as evidenced in his published texts on the prophetic literature. Dr. Chisholm recently published Handbook on the Prophets. He was the translation consultant for the International Children’s Bible and for The Everyday Bible, and is senior Old Testament editor for the NET Bible.

Reviews

[Andrew · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is better than Van Pelt's Hebrew reader since it includes questions to guide Hebrew students to study Hebrew syntax in further detail, but reading Lambdin's grammar or Blau's Hebrew grammar and completing the exercises provide a more thorough foundation for intermediate Biblical Hebrew grammar and syntax. Also translating the Joseph story (Genesis 37-50) with a chrestomathy, or the keyed text in Blau's Hebrew grammar provides a more thorough introduction to intermediate Hebrew than translating Jonah or Ruth (even though the latter is the traditional Seminary pattern for teaching intermediate Hebrew).

[Jerome · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent introduction to syntactical analysis of the Hebrew Bible

[Rachael · Rating 5 out of 5]

I found this a very helpful way to continue my Hebrew studies going verse by verse, word by word, through Jonah and Ruth. With the answer key I could double check myself.