Biblical Hebrew I

This course is designed to equip the student with basic reading and translation knowledge of biblical Hebrew. In contrast to Biblical Hebrew II, the emphasis of this course is upon immersion learning and acquiring fluency in reading (inductive learning) with less of an emphasis on the grammatical framework used by linguists to describe the language (deductive learning). The latter emphasis is reserved for Biblical Hebrew II. This immersion model is based upon studies in human language acquisition in which a language is typically first (and best) learned through exposure to the language inductively (Biblical Hebrew I) before being fully introduced to all of the deductive principles that help describe it (Biblical Hebrew II).