How Biblical Languages Work: A Student's Guide to Learning Hebrew and GreekKregel Academic - 258 Seiten A practical and easy to understand guide to learning both Hebrew and Greek. Ideal for Biblical language scholars. This book provides the first practical beginner's guide to the main components of biblical Hebrew and Greek. It will bring the reader through various organizational structures in Hebrew and Greek using insights gained from years of linguistic and biblical experience. The authors intend this book to be used as a tool to supplement traditional courses in Hebrew and Greek, and to show that these languages are organized in much the same way as other languages. The last chapter includes tips to help each reader learn in his own way. Written by two extremely well-qualified linguists. Uses helpful learning methods by moving from known (English) to unknown (biblical languages). Ideal companion to first-year grammars. Provides a key for getting the most out of both Hebrew and Greek |
Inhalt
Telling Stories and Writing Letters Understanding Discourse | 143 |
Discourse Types | 148 |
Discourse Tools | 153 |
Summary and Preview | 157 |
Exercises | 158 |
What Do You Mean? Its Just Semantics | 160 |
How Can a Word Have More Than One Meaning? | 163 |
How Are Words Related? | 166 |
Can You Spell That? Reading and Writing | 39 |
How Writing Works | 40 |
Three Types of Writing Systems | 44 |
The Sounds of Language | 45 |
The Sounds of Hebrew | 53 |
The Sounds of Greek | 66 |
The Semitic Origin of the Greek and English Alphabets | 69 |
The Shapes of Hebrew Greek and English Letters | 70 |
For Further Study | 72 |
Putting It into Words How Words Are Made | 74 |
How We Can Understand Words | 75 |
How We Classify Morphemes | 78 |
How Morphemes Add Meaning | 83 |
Affixes That Add Grammatical Information to a Word | 85 |
Questions That Languages Ask About Nouns and Pronouns | 87 |
Questions That Languages Ask About Verbs | 89 |
Hebrew Morphology | 91 |
Greek Morphology | 98 |
Comparing Hebrew Greek and English Morphology | 105 |
Putting Inflection and Derivation Together | 106 |
Classifying Languages | 113 |
Summary and Preview | 115 |
Exercises | 116 |
Putting Words Together Phrases and Clauses | 118 |
Putting Words in Groups | 119 |
Analyzing Phrases and Clauses | 121 |
Picturing Phrases and Clauses | 124 |
Forming Phrases | 125 |
Classifying Languages by Word Order | 135 |
Summary and Preview | 141 |
For Further Study | 142 |
What About Figurative Language? | 175 |
When Is Language Ambiguous? | 180 |
How Is a Sentence Like a Play? | 182 |
How Does Context Relate to Language? | 186 |
How Do We Get Things Done with Language? | 188 |
Summary and Preview | 190 |
Internet Resources | 191 |
Variety Is the Spice of Life Dialects and Change | 194 |
Why Do People Speak Differently? | 195 |
Why Do Languages Change? | 197 |
How Do We Know When Languages Are Related? | 201 |
Summary and Preview | 207 |
Exercises | 208 |
Practical Ways to Study and Learn the Biblical Languages | 209 |
Separating the Children from the Adults | 210 |
Are You Motivated? Yes | 213 |
How Your Personality Type Affects Learning | 214 |
Seeing Hearing and Doing | 215 |
Setting Goals in Language Learning | 219 |
How Can I Learn All Those Words? | 222 |
Hints for Learning Hebrew Vocabulary | 225 |
Hints for Learning Greek Vocabulary | 226 |
Summary and Preview | 227 |
For Further Study | 228 |
Internet Resources | 229 |
Glossary of Linguistic Terms | 230 |
For Further Study | 252 |
References | 253 |
References to Linguistics and the Bible | 256 |
References to Biblical Hebrew | 258 |
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How Biblical Languages Work: A Student's Guide to Learning Hebrew and Greek Peter James Silzer,Thomas John Finley Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2004 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 33 - We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native languages. The categories and types that we isolate from the world of phenomena we do not find there because they stare every observer in the face; on the contrary, the world is presented in a kaleidoscopic flux of impressions which has to be organized by our minds - and this means largely by the linguistic systems in our minds.