Students should be prepared to read at any time. Attendance is required. Students should notify the professor in advance, if possible, of any planned absence. If advance notification is impossible, every effort should be made to contact the professor as promptly as possible after the class. Homework must be made up by the next class period unless the instructor allows otherwise.
Academic honesty is taken for granted.
BHEB 671 is the first half of a yearlong course introducing the rudiments of biblical Hebrew to the student. At the end of the year, the student should have a good grasp of the grammar of Hebrew prose. By the completion of the first semester, he or she should have begun to build a working vocabulary of the language and to have become able to translate short paragraphs of Hebrew prose into English and English sentences into biblical Hebrew. The core paradigms of the strong verb should be understood and the student should be able to reproduce forms on request. Each week, the student will be responsible for the exercises assigned.