Learning Outcomes
Students learn advanced Hebrew vocabulary, grammatical and syntactical structures, as well as basic translational principles concerning the transfer of biblical meanings into Greek. That is a presupposition for interpreting Septuagint texts in comparison to the Hebrew Bible.
Course Content (Syllabus)
Hebrew grammar, syntax, stylistics and semantics, identification of important technical terms, translation of complex texts, comparison to Septuagint and Modern Greek as well as to Ivrit.
1. Introduction: History of Hebrew Literature
2. Clauses and Sentences
3. Nominal clauses I
4. Nominal clauses II
5. Verbal clauses
6. consecutio temporum
7. Object
8. Infinitiv
9. Verbal noun
10. Adverbial phrases
11. compound sentences
12. Relative clause
13. Conditional clause
Additional bibliography for study
Β.Μ. Βέλλα, Γραμματική τῆς Ἑβραϊκής Γλώσσης, ΟΕΔΒ, Ἀθήνα 1984.
E. Jenni, Lehrbuch der hebräischen Sprache des Alten Testaments, Basel 2003.
W. Gesenius, Hebrew Grammar: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gesenius%27_Hebrew_Grammar
W. Gesenius, Hebrew Lexicon: http://www.tyndalearchive.com/TABS/Gesenius/