| CODE | SHG1014 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Biblical Hebrew: Select Texts | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Sacred Scripture, Hebrew and Greek | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit builds upon an introductory study-unit and an intermediate one and takes students to a yet deeper level in their understanding of linguistic phenomena in Biblical Hebrew. It employs the use of the Hebrew Bible in its critical edition and presents various texts that are analysed linguistically within their immediate context. This exercise is meant to train students to go to the original sources when studying the Scriptures. The correct use of instruments such as dictionaries and lexicons will be explained in order to aid in the process of translation and interpretation of texts. Study-Unit Aims: The aim of this study-unit is to provide students with a more hands-on approach in which the linguistic rules and principals studied in the previous two study-units may be identified in the actual biblical text. Students are expected to be able to read such texts and to be able to translate them with the use of the proper linguistic tools. The focus on short pericopes of Scripture would allow students to have a better grasp of the particular texts and their contexts. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - identify and comprehend words and phrases in spoken Hebrew; - paraphrase a Biblical text; - recognize the morphology of words; - use biblical dictionaries with ease. - interpret the meaning of biblical passages. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - compose sentences in Hebrew; - translate Biblical texts with relative ease; - determine the import of linguistic features on a text; - examine a text exegetically. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts: - Brown, Francis, Samuel Rolles, and Charles Augustus Briggs. A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament: With an Appendix Containing the Biblical Aramaic. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2018. - Schenker, Adrian, ed. Torah, Nevii虝m U-Khetuvim: Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1997. - Van Pelt, Miles V., and Gary Davis Pratico. Basics of Biblical Hebrew: Workbook. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 2019. - Basics of Biblical Hebrew Grammar. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 2019. - Weingreen, Jacob. A Practical Grammar for Classical Hebrew ... Second Edition. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1959. Supplementary Readings: - Feyerabend, Karl. Langenscheidt鈥檚 Pocket Hebrew Dictionary to the Old Testament: Hebrew-English. Berlin: Langenscheidt, 1985. - Kelley, Page H., Daniel S. Mynatt, and Timothy G. Crawford. The Masorah of Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia: Introduction and Annotated Glossary. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 1998. - Muraoka, Takamitsu. A Biblical Hebrew Reader: With an Outline Grammar. Leuven: Peeters, 2017. - Murphy, Todd J. Pocket Dictionary for the Study of Biblical Hebrew. Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 2003. - Walker-Jones, Arthur. Hebrew for Biblical Interpretation. Atlanta: Society Of Biblical Literature, 2003. |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | Pre-requisite Study-units: SHG1008 Biblical Hebrew: Introduction; SHG2009 Biblical Hebrew: Intermediate | ||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Stefan Attard |
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