Hebrew for Life: Strategies for Learning, Retaining, and Reviving Biblical Hebrew
Overview
Three experienced biblical language professors inspire readers to learn, retain, and use Hebrew for ministry, setting them on a lifetime journey of reading and loving the Hebrew Bible. This companion volume to the successful Greek for Life offers practical guidance, inspiration, and motivation; incorporates research-tested strategies for learning; presents methods not usually covered in other textbooks; and surveys helpful resources for recovering Hebrew after a long period of disuse. It will benefit anyone who is taking (or has taken) a year of Hebrew. Foreword by Miles van Pelt.
- Offers practical guidance, inspiration, and motivation
- Incorporates research-tested strategies for learning
- Presents methods not usually covered in other textbooks
- Foreword by Miles V. Van Pelt
- The Goal of the Harvest
- Weighed in the Balances and Found Wanting
- Review the Fundamentals Often
- Develop a Next-Level Memory
- Strategically Leverage Your Breaks
- Read, Read, Read
- The Wisdom of Resources
- Hebrew’s Close Cousin—Aramaic
- Getting Back in Shape
Top Highlights
“Likewise, the study of Hebrew is not an end in itself. The end goal of studying Hebrew is to know the God who has revealed himself through his word.” (Page 2)
“‘Weakness in Greek and Hebrew also gives rise to exegetical imprecision and carelessness. And exegetical imprecision is the mother of liberal theology.’” (Page 17)
“Studies have shown that the average person can recall only seven discrete things at a time.7” (Page 54)
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“‘Reading the Bible in translation is like kissing your new bride through a veil.’” (Page 4) |
“A. T. Robertson observed, ‘If theological education will increase your power for Christ, is it not your duty to gain that added power? Never say you are losing time by going to school. You are saving time, buying it up for the future and storing it away. Time used in storing power is not lost.’” (Pages 8–9)
Adam J. Howell (PhD, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is assistant professor of Old Testament interpretation at Boyce College, Louisville, Kentucky.
Benjamin L. Merkle (PhD, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is professor of New Testament and Greek at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake Forest, North Carolina.
Robert L. Plummer (PhD, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is professor of New Testament interpretation at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky.
