Teach Yourself Biblical Hebrew Complete Course

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Summary: Somewhat Useful, But Out-Dated and Frustrating
Review: "Teach Yourself Biblical Hebrew" CAN get you started, but within a short period, its shortcomings become very obvious. There is accurate, if often very simplified information, but this book is not well organized, not very well presented, and exercises and examples are generally insufficient. Moreover, the limited vocabulary is antiquated. Do we really need a 'hither' and 'thither' kind of book in the 21st Century?

If you're considering this book you would do MUCH better with Page Kelley's "Biblical Hebrew: An Introductory Grammar". It retails for twice the price, but quantitatively you get approximately four times more book, ample exercises and examples, modern usage, and you are plunged immediately into biblical texts.

Rating:
Summary: Somewhat Useful, But Out-Dated and Frustrating
Review: "Teach Yourself Biblical Hebrew" CAN get you started, but within a short period, its shortcomings become very obvious. There is accurate, if often very simplified information, but this book is not well organized, not very well presented, and exercises and examples are generally insufficient. Moreover, the limited vocabulary is antiquated. Do we really need a 'hither' and 'thither' kind of book in the 21st Century?

If you're considering this book you would do MUCH better with Page Kelley's "Biblical Hebrew: An Introductory Grammar". It retails for twice the price, but quantitatively you get approximately four times more book, ample exercises and examples, modern usage, and you are plunged immediately into biblical texts.

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Summary: Start Somewhere Else
Review: I cannot recommend this as a "teach yourself" text. You would be better off starting ANYwhere else.

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Summary: Biblical Hebrew = Biblical Mess
Review: This book is utterly impossible to understand if one is unfamiliar with many linguistic terms. Even with a firm background in both Latin and Greek, not to mention four other languages, I still found the book quite impossible to follow and incompetent in its explanations. It is far more useful as a supplement to an academic course than anything else.