A Group for Students of Hebrew

Comment by Shimon Ben Eiver on January 31, 2012 at 11:19pm

the way a baby learns a language is by seeing images and hearing abba and imma say the words that correspond to those images.  Don't limit yourself to a grammar book, it might drive you nuts (although the grammar is absolutely necessary).  I have found several websites that offer audio recordings of scriptures for free download.  like,  http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/ptmp3prq.htm  and http://sephardichazzanut.com 

Comment by Shimon Ben Eiver on January 31, 2012 at 11:19pm

after you get ahold of some audio, try to learn the first chapters of Genesis and then listen to them in the Hebrew recordings.  Jeff Benner has put out a book which makes provides an on the spot translation  for every word which occurs in the Hebrew text of Genesis.  It is called the Mechanical Translation of Genesis.  Another good introductory book by Benner is:   The Ancient Hebrew Language and Alphabet - provides really good background info on the language.  for a Beginner learning Hebrew about anything by Benner is good.  Check out his youtube videos too; excellent bits of info.

Comment by Shimon Ben Eiver on January 31, 2012 at 11:19pm

in a similar vein, I have had good luck with an audio cd for Hebrew vocabulary:  Old Testament Hebrew vocabulary  by Jonathan t. pennington. (not sure about his theology, but anyway a good resource).  This is an audio listing of every word in the Tanach that appears more than 20 times. The words are organized in bite sized groupings so that you learn the most frequently occurring words first.  I listen to them whenever I am in my car and over several months have acquired a good bit of vocab.

Comment by Shimon Ben Eiver on January 31, 2012 at 11:20pm

Check out Uri Harel on youtube.  He is a native Hebrew Speaker and a believer.  He provides some very good info on translation issues and the wonder that is the hebrew language.

Comment by Shimon Ben Eiver on January 31, 2012 at 11:20pm

Blueletterbible.org is  very good resource.  you enter a verse that you want to examine in the 'Search the Bible' text box in the upper right hand corner and it will display that verse.  Next to each verse there are six blue buttons.  By clicking on the one with a 'C' on it you can see the text in Hebrew and a click on any of the words will bring up a lexicon (a fancy word for a dictionary) entry for that word and show all the places in the bible it occurs.  This website basically provides free access to the Hebrew Scriptures and Gesenius's lexicon and Strong's concordance.

Comment by Shimon Ben Eiver on January 31, 2012 at 11:21pm

Youtube can be an excellent resource.  As I mentioned before Uri Harel and Jeff Benner have put out several videos for newbies, and there are many others.  Listening to Hebrew music, memorizing it and singing along gets your brain lots of linguistic exercise.

Comment by Shimon Ben Eiver on January 31, 2012 at 11:22pm

Hebrew4Christians.com is an excellent website

Comment by Shimon Ben Eiver on January 31, 2012 at 11:29pm

Isaac Mozeson has written a wonderful dictionary of English words that are directly related to their Hebrew counterparts called the Word.  I checked this book out from the library and am very impressed.  He done much intriguing work along these lines.  He calls this branch of study Edenics.  Check out his website:   http://www.edenics.net/

Comment by Shimon Ben Eiver on January 31, 2012 at 11:38pm

I have heard it said that learning Hebrew is a spiritual equivalent of making Aliyah (returning to the Holy Land) because you come to understand YHWH's Word much better.  In other words reading a translation is like being a foriegner to YHWH's kingdom. I still have a long way to improve before I am highly proficient but I have to agree.  Samuel Raphael Hirsch said it is like kissing your wife through a veil.

Comment by John on April 13, 2012 at 5:38pm

What is the significance of "Hebrew" in Hebrew being "Ivrit?"

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