Product Description

This audio CD contains all the Hebrew words found in the vocabulary sections of Basics of Biblical Hebrew by Gary Pratico and Miles Van Pelt, in the order of the lessons. Students can listen to and learn their vocabulary words while they are exercising, driving, eating lunch, and so forth.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #583496 in Books
• Published on: 2006-06-01
• Formats: Audiobook, Unabridged
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Audio CD

Features

• ISBN13: 9780310270744
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From the Back Cover
At last—a convenient and immensely useful learning companion for students of biblical Hebrew. Designed for use with Basics of Biblical Hebrew Grammar, this CD helps you master all the vocabulary words in the textbook lesson by lesson. Hearing the Hebrew words properly pronounced simplifies your learning process. Basics of Biblical Hebrew audio CD includes these features:
• Words given in order of Basics of Biblical Hebrew Grammar lessons
• Each word spoken slowly and clearly, with time after it for you to give the meaning
• Different tracks allow you to concentrate on corresponding lessons
• All words given in lexical form
• Hebrew alphabet given at beginning

About the Author
Gary D. Pratico (ThD, Harvard Divinity School) is professor of Old Testament and director of the Hebrew language program at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He has been teaching Hebrew for nearly thirty years. He is coauthor with Miles Van Pelt of Basics of Biblical Hebrew (grammar and workbook) and The Vocabulary Guide to Biblical Hebrew.

Miles V. Van Pelt (Ph.D., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is associate professor of Old Testament and Academic Dean at Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, MS. He is the coauthor of our best-selling Basics of Biblical Hebrew, as well as a number of other resources on biblical Hebrew.

Jonathan T. Pennington (PhD University of St. Andrews, Scotland) is assistant professor of New Testament Interpretation at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.

Customer Reviews

Learn how to speak Hebrew like an American (not an Israeli)
The concept in this cd is great. The price is fair. The technical features on the cd are very easy to use and to play back. I installed it on my laptop in a few minutes and played it back on Windows Media player immediately. The tracks are labeled correctly. Everything seems fine.

Then I played it for my Hebrew instructor. He started laughing. The pronunciation is not at all like modern Hebrew. So, if you are like me and you want to learn Hebrew in order to read the bible, but you also might want to be able to say something to Israeli's if you ever go there on a trip, then by all means DON'T use this product. It will drill into your head the wrong way to speak Hebrew.

However, if you don't plan to go to Israel and do plan to use your biblical Hebrew in a context where the older American style Seminary pronunciations are in play, then this is the perfect tool. Unfortunately, those pronunciations are falling out of favor more and more.

So, if you are like me, then this product is not something to spend time and money on at all, even though it is well packaged and priced fairly.

I think products that feature audio recordings of a language ought to use a native speaker of that language. Shame on Zondervan for failing to recognize this and provide us with a native speaker, and for not labeling this product with some sort of declaration that it uses a method of speech that most Israeli's think sounds funny to their ears.

I'm sorry I cannot recommend this product. Someone ought to come out with an audio recording of a real Israeli speaking all the words correctly.