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Invitation to Biblical Hebrew: A Beginning Grammar (Invitation to Theological Studies) Hardcover – June 30, 2006

by Russell T. Fuller (Author), Kyoungwon Choi (Author)

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A tested approach to learning biblical Hebrew in an ideal package for the first-year Hebrew student. This clear, accurate, and pedagogically sound textbook emphasizes the basics: Hebrew phonology (sounds) and morphology (forms). This grammar does not use jargon or technical language, but uses terms easily understood and remembered so biblical Hebrew can be used with regularity and authority.

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"In my opinion this is the best grammar availableóit teaches the fundamentals of morphology better than any other grammar that I have seen. He goes back to a reconstructed proto-Hebrew and then gives the strong verb and the "weak" verbs and shows the derivational patterns that stem from proto-Hebrew. Very pedagogically focused as well." -- Charles Halton ― blogspot.com Published On: 2006-08-01

"Fuller's method is the best there is. He combines reading a chapter, watching someone explain the concept on DVD, and physically doing exercises out of a workbook (or on a whiteboard in a classroom). If you want to learn Hebrew and your don't have access to a schoolóbuy the book, workbook, DVDs and get studying. If you're teaching a class, integrate this into your semester, your students will thank you. You might ask how I know this works. Well, I was one of Fuller's students and now I'm doing a PhD in Semitic languages so it must have worked for me. (P.S. And no, he hasn't paid me to say these things. I say it because I want to help you learn Hebrew and/or be the best teacher possible.)" -- Charles Halton ― awilum.com Published On: 2006-08-01

"If you have a desire to learn Hebrew, let me encourage you to purchase this grammar, along with the workbook and DVDs. Utilizing the deductive approach, the authors instruct you in a concept and then turn you loose to practice it through pages of drills and exercises. As long as you master each chapter before going onto the next, you can work your way into a solid understanding of the grammar and syntax of biblical Hebrew." -- Scott Lamb ― The Pathway Published On: 2006-08-01

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The Invitation to Theological Studies Series (ITS) provides primary textbooks for core seminary courses, including biblical Hebrew and Greek, Old and New Testament introduction, biblical interpretation, and preaching. ITS provides foundational works that are both intellectually stimulating and spiritually nourishing.

Based on years of success in the classroom, Invitation to Biblical Hebrew: A Beginning Grammar provides a clear and accurate textbook for the beginning Hebrew student. It focuses on the basics of phonology (sounds) and morphology (forms) so that the student is able to learn the language by reason and rule rather than rote memorization. The textbook also includes helpful discussions of syntax with the ultimate goal of using Hebrew in ministry.

Special features of Invitation to Biblical Hebrew include a sixteen-page color insert outlining morphological principles. Also available are a companion workbook with drills, assignments, and answer keys, and a companion set of six DVDs of Dr. Fuller's classroom presentations.

"I had taken eight semesters of Hebrew courses in the standard way that Hebrew is taught, and in two semesters of studying Hebrew on Dr. Fuller's method I finally learned the language! . . . This is the best way to learn the language, bar none!"

--James M. Hamilton Jr., Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

"The textbook stands out on several levels. First, it is a truly elementary Hebrew grammar. It focuses on only what the student needs to know. Second, the grammar utilizes a totally deductive approach. While some modern grammars promote the inductive approach or some mixture of approaches, these authors deftly take students back to the tried and true basics. Third, the true beauty of the authors' method is in how after the students have truly mastered the basic rules, they can then tear apart any Hebrew word and give the reasons why every dot and dash is there, why it is not there, or why the vowel has lengthened, reduced, etc. With this mastery, the student's fear and trepidation about Hebrew melt away."

--Eric A. Mitchell, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Russell T. Fuller (Ph.D., Hebrew Union College) is associate professor of Old Testament interpretation at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.

Kyoungwon Choi (M.Div., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in the Old Testament Department at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Kregel Academic & Professional; Bilingual edition (June 30, 2006)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 388 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0825426502
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0825426506
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.52 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 1.15 x 11 inches

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Zhao Jijiang

the right choice for me as a self learner

Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2010

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After I decided to learn biblical hebrew by myself, I compared some of the most popular first-year grammers, including:
* Basics of Biblical Hebrew Grammar: Second Edition by Gary D. Pratico
* A Handbook to Biblical Hebrew: An Introductory Grammar by Page H. Kelley
* A Grammar for Biblical Hebrew (Revised Edition) by Leong Choon Seow
* and this one, by Russell Fuller

I chose this one as my starting point. Now, after finishing more than 4/5 of the program, I think I made the right choice. While the first two are more popular, Fuller introduces the fundamentals of Phonology and Mophology in a quite clear system. In this system, you can know the rules of WHY of this ancient language, after you know WHY, the problem of HOW seems easy. I have to quote another reviewer's words again: 'If you get the fundamentals in place, the rest will follow.'

And the workbook is really a plus, the exercises are designed carefully, by following them constantly, the rules are ingrained in me, as the authors promised in the introduction of the book. So if you use this grammer, I highly recommend that you do all the exercises, they really worth the effort.

The organization of the verb system in this book is another plus. All the other three grammers organize verb system by the 7 stems of biblical hebrew, under each stem both strong and weak verbs are introduced. But in this book, the 7 stems of the strong verb are introduced first, and the weak verbs are then divided into ten categories, introduced one by one after the strong verb. This organization works fine for me: by a sound memorizing of the 'boxes' and 'thematic vowels' of each stem of the strong verb, the weak verb system turns out somewhat easy for me. Anyway, verb system is much more difficult than noun system of first-year biblical languages, both Greek and Hebrew. and this book makes it somewhat easy.

There are complaints too, the biggest one is: sometime I feel the authors didn't dig deep enough into the rules, they didn't give enough observation, as Mounce did in BBG. Almost in every chapter I had to observe and find out the under-ground info by myself. Some examples:
(1) in ch7-9 (particles), the author said 'they can only be learned through memory, mostly'. But in fact, after analyzing the rules, I found most of them obey the rules of ch2-6 nicely.
(2) in ch12 (pronominal suffixes of noun), the author didn't tell me at anywhere that the noun is in construct state. After I noticed: 'construct state of noun' + 'pronominal suffixes', everything is clear.
(3) in ch19-25 (verb), the author didn't tell me clearly that participle would reduce its thematic vowel in all active stems and would not reduce in all passive stems. I had to conclude this from the exercises.
(4) nearly in every chapter after ch12, I would just skip the section of 'steps of creating forms', since I always feel I've found a better procedure to create the form, based on a deep understanding of the rules introduced in the text. Their 'steps' seems cumbersome to me. Only in the weak verb chapters(ch29-), their offer agrees with mine.

Generally speaking, I highly recommend this grammer to self learners of Biblical Hebrew, it deserves more attention in the market, IMHO. I think you can use this text in the first year of Hebrew study, and then use Pratico or Kelley in the second year as a review. But when you use it, maybe you should do what I did: find out the hidden rules yourself.

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Fergus

Excellent Hebrew Grammar!

Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2012

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I just finished two semesters of Biblical Hebrew being taught by a former student of Dr. Fuller's and using his book, and I cannot say enough of how wonderful it is. I had learned some Hebrew before, but that was nothing compared to this book. One thing that makes Dr. Fuller's Hebrew grammar so great is that he explains the process of how things became what they are now. Not only is it great to know, but that also makes the information so much easier to remember because you are not just memorizing random facts. Also, Dr. Fuller uses a different method in teaching Hebrew verbs. Instead of making you memorize verb form after verb form that you then have to remember the right one out of the hundreds that you have memorized when you are parsing, Dr. Fuller just has you memorize one chart for the strong verbs so that you can then follow a logical process in parsing it. And for the weak verbs, he shows you how to figure out what happened to it so that you can then parse it. This is so much more effective that my teacher told how he and another student that had learned this way could parse so much faster than all the other students who had not learned this way, and he also told how he was about to take a final in a doctoral class and how everyone was groaning over the parsing that they were going to have to do, but he and another student who had learned this way were not concerned in the least and hardly had to study. Not only should you get this book, however, but you should also get the accompanying DVD and workbook because the DVD makes it easier to understand the material, and the workbook contains pages of drills and an answer key, and you cannot learn a language without practice. Now that I have gone through this book, I can read some sections of the Old Testament in Hebrew with little or no help from concordances and the like. All this being said, do not start Hebrew unless you are willing to spend hours on it; however, it is worth every minute of it.

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Samuel M Smith

Purely deductive, very thorough

Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2010

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I am a doctoral student in biblical studies who wanted to know Hebrew as well as one of my professors does. His name is Eric Mitchell and his blurb adorns the back of this book, so this was the logical place to start.

There are two main schools of thought on how to learn a language. The inductive method argues for immersion in the text; hence you learn enough to read, say Genesis 1 and go for it. Then you pick up what you can as you go. The deductive method, alternatively, argues that the fine details of a foreign language are too significant to be learned in an ad hoc manner. The down side is that it seems to take forever before you can use your skills. I used the inductive approach for Koine Greek, Latin, German and French, but it just wasn't cutting it when it came to Hebrew. I am grateful that Dr. Fuller has provided all three parts of this set (grammar, workbook and DVDs) for people like me who needed the help.

Language acquisition is not a one-size-fits-all phenomenon. This may not be the place to start for you. But if you really are inquisitive and like puzzles and remembering SKNMLVI rules like me, this is a good fit. I cannot wait to complete the course and know everything in it.

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David Holland

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Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2021

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of all thr hebrew grammars I've tried this may be the best

Reviewed in the United States on May 13, 2016

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This book is an awful disgrace to teaching Hebrew. The chapters are not clear at all regarding what the chapter is trying to teach. The chapters also provide next to no examples as to the point they are trying to make. The questions at the end of the chapter are vague and may even cover a tiny footnote in the chapter. Also, the font they use for the Hebrew letters is SO SMALL I cannot even comprehend what letter they typed. It is also confusing that the textbook has Drill questions, along with the workbook, which has Drill Sheets. It is clear they have no desire to teach the student who is brand new to Hebrew. I am sorely disappointed in this book. I would NOT get this book if I didn't have to for my Hebrew class.

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Dr. Albano Tavares

Extraordinary Biblical Hebrew Grammar

Reviewed in Spain on December 21, 2021

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In pristine conditions, in extremely didactic way of presenting the material. One of the best elementary Biblical Hebrew Grammar I have.

John Smith

Exceptionally complete treatment

Reviewed in Germany on November 12, 2021

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This book arrived today. It was very well packaged and came in perfect condition. I have not started using it yet, but I can see that it provides a very detailed treatment of Biblical Hebrew. I am looking forward to using it. I will report later with my experiences.

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