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Independent Translation and understanding of Old Testament texts using tools (grammar, dictionary).

Consolidation of grammar (learning of irregular verbs and syntax) and the stylistic forms of Hebrew poetry. On the target is also the learning of the Sigla of the critical apparatus of the Biblica Hebraica Stuttgartensia. The study of the Bible in the original Hebrew gives a very different approach of the Hebrew Bible and is indispensable for students of the Old Testament.

Lecture Exercises

Written assignments and oral examination.

Bartelmus Rüdiger, Einführung in das Biblische Hebräisch. Mit einem Anhang Biblisches Aramäisch, Zürich 1994; Matheus Frank, Einführung in das Biblische Hebräisch. Studiengrammatik, Münster 1997; as well as excerpts of: Jenni Ernst, Lehrbuch der Hebräischen Sprache des Alten Testaments, Basel / Frankfurt 1981. Biblical texts of Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia will be distributed throughout the course.

Biblical Hebrew I.