Biblical Hebrew

Biblical Hebrew Program Learning Goals

The Biblical Hebrew program will enable students

  • to acquire knowledge of Hebrew vocabulary, morphology, and syntax, including the technical terminology used to describe grammatical phenomena
  • to translate narrative biblical texts from Biblical Hebrew into English
  • to understand the fundamentals of biblical Hebrew poetry
  • to work with the standard scholarly tools used for translation

The Hebrew program is overseen by Dr. Robert Williamson Jr. of the Department of Religious Studies.