Hebrew 324: Biblical Texts
Department of Hebrew and Semitic Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Spring 2007
Class: MWF 1:20-2:10
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)
The
primary purpose of this course to increase fluency
and accuracy in reading Biblical Hebrew through (a) reading selected
texts; (b)
discussion of grammar and syntax (a special focus will be clausal
syntax); (c) and vocabulary building.
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 be
prepared for
the next class session.
2) Daily
translation: Come to class prepared to
translate from
an unmarked Hebrew text, parse all verbs, identify all forms.
You may
use notes, but you may not read from a prepared translation. If you are
not
prepared when called on, please say so and we will move on to the next
person. The use of computer parsing programs
and/or published parsing guides is strictly forbidden; use your
lexicon,
paradigms, and grammars. If you
do not understand a form, bring it up in class.
3) Quizzes: Every Monday we will
begin class with a brief quiz that will test you primarily on material
covered
the previous week, especially vocabulary, syntax, and translation. 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 (7:25
P.M. WED. MAY 16). Both
exams
will be cumulative.
5) Syntax
& Translation Exercise: You
must present a translation and syntactic analysis of Deut. 4:1-22
according to
guidelines to be discussed in class. The
first draft is due on Friday, April 20; a revision of the project is
due on Friday,
May 4. The final grade will be an
average of the two drafts.
6) Oral
Textbooks:
Brown, Francis, S. R. Driver, and C. A.
Briggs. 1979. The
New Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew-English Lexicon.
Elliger, K. and Rudolph, W., ed. 1967-77. Biblia
Hebraica Stuttgartensia. 3rd ed.
Mitchel, Larry. 1984.
A Student's Vocabulary for Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic.
Grading: (approximate
%) Grading
Scale: A 93-100 (Outstanding)
Oral
Reading: 10%
AB 89-92 (Exceptional)
Quizzes:15%
B
82-88 (Good)
Midterm
Exam: 25%
BC 79-81
Final
Exam: 35%
C
70-78 (Adequate)
Syntax
Exercise: 15%
D 60-69 (Marginal)
F 0-59
(Inadequate)
Schedule:
|
Date |
Topic |
Vocab on
Quiz |
|
Week 1 |
Apposition and Coordination |
|
|
Week 2 |
Verbless Clauses |
Mitchel 5A |
|
Week 3 |
Relative Clauses |
Mitchel 5B |
|
Week 4 |
Temporal Clauses |
Mitchel 5C |
|
Week 5 |
Causal Clauses |
Mitchel 5D |
|
Week 6 |
Conditional Clauses |
Mitchel 5E |
|
Week 7 |
Purpose/Result
Clauses |
Mitchel 5F |
|
Week 8 |
Mid-term (Friday, March 16) |
|
|
Week 9 |
Comparative Clauses |
Mitchel 5G |
|
Week 10 |
Concessive Clauses;
Exceptive Clauses |
Mitchel 5H |
|
|
SPRING BREAK (April 2-6) |
|
|
Week 11 |
|
Mitchel 5I |
|
Week 12 |
Syntax Exercise Draft 1
Due (Friday, April 20) |
Mitchel 5J |
|
Week 13 |
|
Mitchel 5K |
|
Week 14 |
Syntax Exercise Draft 2
Due (Friday, May 4) |
Mitchel 5L |
|
Week 15 |
|
Mitchel 5M |
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