This program will obviously also benefit any serious student of the Old Testament Scriptures. At least fourteen whole days of field trips are planned. The Modern Hebrew winter language course is taught during this month preceding the opening of the Hebrew University Spring Semester. It is an intensive course consisting of five class hours per day, five days a week,for a total of ca 100 hours of classroom study. It enables the student to acquire a beginning knowledge of Hebrew.
Emphasis is placed on the development of oral and reading comprehension.
Grammar is taught, and language learning is enhanced by Hebrew University language laboratory facilities with computers and audio and video cassettes. This course focuses on Intermediate Biblical Hebrew grammar, syntax, and vocabulary. The emphasis will be laid on extensive readings from Biblical texts. Issues related to textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls will also be discussed from the point of view of the Bible Translator. The historical events mentioned in the Bible are studied in relation to the geographical context in which they happened.