Hebrew 104/304
Department of Hebrew and Semitic Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Spring 2007
Class: MW 2:30-3:45, F
2:25-3:15
Location:
119 Van Hise
Instructor: Jim Kirk
Email:
jkirk@wisc.edu
Office: 1336 Van Hise
Office Phone #: 262-8240
Office Hours: F 3:15-4:30 or by appointment
Home Phone
#: 265-5844 (before 9pm)
Welcome
to the second semester of Biblical Hebrew! This
semester we continue our adventure in
learning the language of the Hebrew Bible.
Let me remind you of our general goals for this year:
-
to read Hebrew narrative by sight come May.
-
to see the literary importance of
reading the Bible in Hebrew, not just in translation.
-
to learn to be a skilled
and
strategic language learner.
-
to enjoy reading
Hebrew (so much
that you spend your summer reading Hebrew for fun!).
To further these
goals this semester we will reinforce
the grammar learned last semester and move onto the Hebrew "weak"
verbs and aspects of Biblical Hebrew syntax.
We will also spend a lot of time reading Biblical Hebrew
narrative, with
appreciation for its literary dimensions.
Requirements:
1) Attendance is crucial for your success in this class. You are expected to come to class with all
the assigned work completed and ready for active participation.� If you must
miss a
class, it is your responsibility to get notes from another student and
check
with me for any handouts. If you miss
a Hebrew reading session, please go over the text with another student
before
coming to me with remaining questions.
2) Exercises and translation will
be assigned daily. We will go over these
assignments at the beginning of the next class period and I will
collect some
of them. These assignments cannot be
handed in outside of class, except by special permission.
3) Quizzes. Quizzes
on Mondays will
focus on the previous week's grammar, but vocabulary and translation
will
always be cumulative. No surprises at
all on the quizzes. Just know
everything! The quiz will start at the
beginning of the hour, so please do not be late. There
will be no make-up quizzes (except by
special permission), but your lowest quiz score will be dropped.
4) We will have a mid-term (fri. march 16) and a final
exam (2:45 p.m. tue.
may 15). Both exams will be cumulative.
5) Oral recitation: It
is important that you gain the ability
early on in your study of Biblical Hebrew to read Hebrew aloud fluently. To encourage you in this you must prepare a
text (to be announced) and read it for me during office hours (or by
appointment). I will pass out a schedule
for these readings in early April, but feel free to complete the
assignment
early.
Textbooks:
1)
Cook, John A., and
Robert D. Holmstedt. 2005. Ancient Hebrew: A Student Grammar. Unpublished.
2)
Elliger, K. and
Rudolph, W., eds. 1967-77. Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. 3d ed.
Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft.
3)
Brown, Francis, S.R.
Driver, and C.A. Briggs. 1979. The
New Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew-English Lexicon. Peabody, Mass.:
Hendrickson. [BDB]
Recommended:
Long, Gary
A. Grammatical Concepts 101 for
Biblical Hebrew: Learning Biblical Hebrew Grammatical Concepts through
English
Grammar.
Communication:
1) I
have set up a course email list for our use.
The address is: hebrst104-1-s07@lists.wisc.edu.
Please feel free to
use this
list to communicate with your fellow students, arrange study groups,
ask
questions, or do anything else related to Biblical Hebrew.
2) I will post
files for download on the Learn@UW website (http://learnuw.wisc.edu).
Grading: (approximate
%)
Grading
Scale: A 93-100 (Outstanding)
Assignments/Participation:
15%
AB 89-92 (Exceptional)
Quizzes: 25%
B 82-88 (Good)
Midterm
Exam: 25%
BC 79-81
Final
Exam: 25%
C 70-78 (Adequate)
Oral
F 0-59 (Inadequate)
Schedule:
|
Date |
Topic |
|
Week 1 |
Chapter 16: Using a Hebrew
Lexicon; Dynamic and Stative Verbs |
|
Week 2 |
Chapter 17: Verbs with
guttural consonants in the root |
|
Week 3 |
Chapter 18: Intro to
"Weak" Verbs; Object Suffixes on Verbs |
|
Week 4 |
Chapter 19: Verbs with א in
the root |
|
Week 5 |
Chapter 20: Verbs with נ as
the 1st radical |
|
Week 6 |
Chapter 21: Verbs with י/ו as
the 1st radical |
|
Week 7 |
Chapter 22: Verbs with ה as
the 3rd radical |
|
Week 8 |
Mid-term Exam (Friday,
March 16) |
|
Week 9 |
Chapter 23: Verbs with י/ו as
the 2nd radical |
|
Week 10 |
Chapter 24: Verbs with the
same consonants for the 2nd and 3rd radicals |
|
|
SPRING BREAK (April 2-6) |
|
Week 11 |
Chapter 25: Verbs with
more than one "weak" consonant |
|
Week 12 |
Chapters 26-27: Putting
Words Together |
|
Week 13 |
Chapter 28: Making Sense
of Words |
|
Week 14 |
Chapter 29: Getting the
Message |
|
Week 15 |
Chapter 30: 'Reading' the
Bigger Picture |
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Latest revision date: 1/17/2007 (cad)