**What’s the best way to learn a new language?** By approaching it not as a series of facts to memorize but as something alive, with a personality you can get to know and tendencies you can sometimes predict.

Designed for long-term retention, *Learning Biblical Hebrew* focuses on helping students understand how the Hebrew language works and providing a solid grounding in Hebrew through extensive reading in the biblical text.

* Introduces advanced concepts in a form accessible to beginning students.
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* Focuses on historic patterns and changes that minimize memorization.
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* Focuses on how the language works for long-term retention.
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* Encourages mastery of paradigms from a handful of representative forms.
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* Includes extensive translation from the third week of class.
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* Prepares students for translation of unedited biblical texts by the end of first semester.
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* Emphasizes reading comprehension rather than decoding.
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* Promotes a strong oral component to enhance language competence.

Written for first-year and second-year Hebrew students, grammar is laid out to present comprehensive concepts to first-year students and then to aid in review and deeper understanding for second-year students.

Though written for Hebrew competency, *Learning Biblical Hebrew* is also well-suited for students with different learning styles and objectives.