Functional and fun, each course offers full pronunciation guides, grammar summaries, dialogues, cultural notes, vocabulary charts, and irregular verb tables. Ideal for complete language study from comprehension, to speaking and writing skills, to understanding the culture.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 1.5 / 5.0
Also Poor Printing!:
I bought this book because it was cheap, and I thought I could get an idea of the language from it. Everything that the other reviewers say is true. The only new thing that I want to add is that the printing is so poor and blurred that it is impossible sometimes to distinguish the points indicating the different vowels: very frustrating for a beginner. Nevertheless, this book motivated me to buy a better book and to eventually learn enough Hebrew to read some of the Tanakh in the original language. I would... more info
Confuse Yourself:
I have studied Hebrew on and off since 1984. This book would be extremely difficult to understand for a beginner. I would not recommend this book. There is nothing wrong with buying a children's primer to start your study in Hebrew and gradually move on to more advanced teaching. This book is not the one to "Teach Yourself Biblical Hebrew".
Painfully, unbelievably bad !!:
I read the reviews here on Amazon, and thought to myself "This book can't be that bad, can it?". So I borrowed it from the library... and then found out for myself that I was so wrong! Yes, it really IS that bad. Consider yourself warned :O) Now, for someone who already has some background in Hebrew, this might be a good reference work to have on their shelf. But if youre a beginner, do yourself a favor and skip this one. Instead, I'd recommend "Learn Biblical Hebrew", by John H Dobson.
Somewhat Useful, But Out-Dated and Frustrating:
"Teach Yourself Biblical Hebrew" CAN get you started, but within a short period, its shortcomings become very obvious. There is accurate, if often very simplified information, but this book is not well organized, not very well presented, and exercises and examples are generally insufficient. Moreover, the limited vocabulary is antiquated. Do we really need a 'hither' and 'thither' kind of book in the 21st Century?
If you're considering this book you would do MUCH better with Page Kelley's "Biblical... more info
