Fundamental Biblical Hebrew

by Andrew E Steinmann

Fundamental Biblical Hebrew serves as an easy-to-use reference tool, covering vocabulary, morphology, and syntax. This complete textbook is suitable for university and seminary courses as well as for pastors engaged in the study of the Bible in its original languages.

Fundamental Biblical Aramaic enables students who posess a working knowledge of biblical Hebrew to quickly gain proficiency in biblical Aramaic. The exercises are drawn from the Bible, exposing the student to actual biblical Aramaic while learning the grammar.

Genres: School

392 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2004

Reviews

[Jason · Rating 2 out of 5]

My low rating is not so much against the content of the book; instead, it is because this book has been outstripped by better, newer grammars. While it is nice to have both Hebrew and Aramaic grammars in this book (and exercises in the book instead of a supplementary workbook) the book is both sparse and clunky. I can’t imagine using this book to teach myself Hebrew or Aramaic. While probably a great grammar in its day, I would encourage you to invest your money and energy in more up to date Biblical Hebrew grammars like Pratico or Kutz

[Allen Tsai · Rating 3 out of 5]

A decent intermediate grammar that covers a number of random topics (easily confused forms and sentence syntax of oaths). This rounds out Arnold & Choi's Hebrew grammar, although I think the former is better and more organized than this one. The best section was on distinguishing the stem systems by causation (G, D, H).

[Sarah · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the simpliest primers I have come across for adults. Bartelt breaks down biblical Hebrew in such a way that by the end of the book it is possible to sit down with a Torah and be able to do translations.

[Ferg · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is very readable and easy to follow. Perfect for learning the basic vocab and grammar of Biblical Hebrew.

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Picked this up at the 2011 AAR/SBL conference. I need to brush up on my ancient Hebrew and begin the process of actually learning Aramaic, so I figure this'll be a good start.

[Sylvan Finger · Rating 5 out of 5]

Clear presentation and instructions. I would recommend this book.