Seminary & School of Ministry HEB 5111 Biblical Hebrew 2 Online CONTACT INFORMATION Instructor: Walter E. Brown, Ph.D. Phone: 504-729-8174 E-mail: webrown@ciu.edu I. COURSE DESCRIPTION: Together with HEB 5110, these courses introduce the basic grammar and vocabulary of Old Testament Hebrew. Emphasis is placed on understanding word formation and building vocabulary as a foundation for developing reading proficiency. You will begin to read the Hebrew Old Testament during these courses. II. COURSE OBJECTIVES: At the end of this course, each student will have acquired: A. A knowledge of the grammatical features and the functions of the major verb forms of Old Testament Hebrew. B. A familiarity with commonly used words in the Hebrew Old Testament, especially words with important theological significance. C. A basic skill in using exegetical tools through translation practices on selected texts from the Hebrew Old Testament. D. An ability to recite the original Hebrew text of Psalm 23. III. REQUIRED MATERIALS: A. Required for this semester: Weingreen, J., A Practical Grammar for Classical Hebrew (Oxford University Press, 2nd ed., 1959). B. Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS) (small size edition, paperback; American Bible Society, 1985). C. The New Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon (Hendrickson, repr. 1996). (You may also use a software program containing a tagged BHS text and a digital lexicon, if you wish.) IV. COURSE REQUIREMENTS: A. Overview: 1. Review material daily and complete class assignments on time. 2. Pass all the vocabulary and grammatical quizzes. 3. Pass the test on reading and recitation. 4. Pass the Mid-term and Final exams. 5. Participate fully in all class activities.
HEB 5111 Online [Spring 2014] - 2 B. Details: 1. Review material daily and complete class assignments on time: Daily review is the key to mastering a new language, therefore you are required to keep a daily log recording your daily review of Hebrew (see "Daily Review Record" form in this syllabus. Each exercise is assigned on the day it appears in the "Course Schedule" and is due the following Monday. Read the new lesson in Weingreen before class and try translating one or two sentences in its exercise before viewing the narrated presentation. Since we are dealing mainly with the verbs, be sure to also read the parallel verb chart in the back of the book and consult the handout verb charts. 2. Pass the vocabulary quizzes: The quizzes this semester will be fewer but perhaps more challenging than last semester. Items in each quiz will be a combination from: (1) Weingreen's vocabulary lists (2) Items specified in the verb tables (see the Review Verb List) (3) Significant words from the assigned OT passages. 3. Recitation test: You will be asked to recite Psalm 23. You will record your recitation and upload it into the course page. 4. Pass Mid-Term and Final Exams: The exams will normally have three sections: vocabulary, grammar, and sentence translation (which may include the OT passages assigned for exercises). The final exam will be partially cumulative. 5. Participate in Class Forums: Limited forums provide an avenue through which students can interact with each other and with the professor regarding any matters that are at issue in the study. C. Course Evaluation and Grading: 1. Time Distribution: Though our grading will be mainly based on the quality of the student's work and not on the quantity of time spent, the following information may be helpful to you in your planning: For each week's lesson, you need to invest at least 10 hours of concentrated study. Of these 10 hours, 2-3 hours are designated for viewing the narrated presentations on the lessons, exercises, and vocabulary, about 2 hours are for the assigned exercise, 2 hour for review and reading the upcoming lessons, about 2 hours for daily review, and about 1 hour for participation in forums. Altogether, the workload for the course will be about 135 hours. 2. Grade Distribution: Exercises 30% Quizzes 10% Reading/Recitation 05% Daily Review Records 05% Mid-Term Exam 20% Final Exam 25% Forum Participation 05%
HEB 5111 Online [Spring 2014] - 3 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR LEARNING SUPPORT: Students with physical, emotional, ADD, or learning disabilities who need academic accommodations should make requests through the Academic Success Center (ASC). These requests will be kept confidential. Requests may be made throughout the semester, and ideally they would be initiated as early as possible. The ASC is located on the first floor of Rossi Student Center (803-807-5611, academicsuccess@ciu.edu). If you already receive services through ASC, please contact me so that we can make your academic experience in this class as successful as possible. SSM STYLESHEET The official guide for all written work in connection with this course is the SSM Stylesheet, which is available from the Faculty Administrative Assistant s office (Schuster 1xx). It is based on the Chicago Manual of Style as summarized in the latest edition of Kate L. Turabian, A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations. It includes guidelines related to grammar and style, organization of papers, abbreviations and numbers, spelling, punctuation, capitalization, quotations, using Greek and Hebrew words, using and citing sources, footnotes, bibliography, and using the internet. The instructor reserves the right to return written work that displays poor spelling, consistent grammatical errors, incorrect style, and/or poor general appearance. The basic parameters are set out in the Stylesheet. If your work is returned for any of these reasons, you may resubmit it within two weeks of its return. If you do not revise and resubmit your work, you will receive a zero for the assignment. To find an electronic copy of the Stylesheet, you may follow this path: CIUOnline > Student Life > Seminary Information > Resources > Stylesheet Online resources related to Turabian include: http://www.eturabian.com/turabian/index.html http://www.bibme.org https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/717/01/ PLAGIARISM CIU SSM expects you to be honorable in your studies and responsible for your own academic work. Dishonesty in assignments, examinations, written papers, or other work is contrary to scriptural principles of Christian living and an affront to fellow students and your instructors. Plagiarism occurs when you present another person s ideas or words as your own, or when you intentionally or unintentionally fail to acknowledge or cite the source of the ideas you use. Acknowledging and citing sources involves placing quotation marks around all the material you have taken (or paraphrased) from books, articles, internet sites, other students papers, or other work you have not personally produced. It also involves listing full information
HEB 5111 Online [Spring 2014] - 4 about that source in a footnote or a parenthetical reference. See the SSM Stylesheet for examples of how to cite sources correctly. Specific examples of plagiarism include but are not limited to the following: 1. Borrowing the words, sentences, ideas, conclusions, examples and/or organization of an assignment from a source (e.g., a book, an article, another student s paper, a tape/video, an internet site) without acknowledging the source. 2. Submitting work done by another student in part or in whole in place of original work. 3. Submitting assignments received from the Internet, from commercial firms or from any other person or group. 4. Knowingly aiding another student in plagiarizing an assignment as defined above. You may not submit work that is part of a group consultation unless it is related to an assignment your syllabus specifically indicates is to be completed as part of a group. If you study for an exam with a review group, you may not reproduce any answers that others have written and submit it as your own work. You may not share with others answers to exam questions you have composed in advance. Any of these actions will be considered plagiarism. Plagiarism will result in academic penalty, and may result in failure in the assignment, failure in the course, and further disciplinary action. When appropriate, your Student Life chaplain will be informed.
HEB 5111 Online [Spring 2014] - 5 V. ASSIGNMENT SCHEDULE Important Notes: Each lesson covers material for a full week. The online course has an interactive schedule for you to follow. In order for you to comprehend the new lessons well, you are required to read each lesson before listening to the narrated presentations ( i.e., the numbered lessons in each week's assignments) Schedule Lesson Assignments Notes Wk 1 Review of Niphal, Piel, Feb 3-7 and Pual forms Wk 2 Feb 10-14 Hiphil and Hophal Weingreen, pp. 99-109 Lesson 20.1 Review Niphal and Piel Weingreen, pp. 109-110 Lesson 20.2 Pual Perfect Lesson 20.3 Pual Imperfect Lesson 20 Vocabulary Lesson 20 Practice Lesson 20 Assignment Exercise W20: 3, 6, 8, 10, 11 Weingreen, pp.112-115 Lesson 21.1 Hiphil: Perfect Lesson 21.2 Hiphil: Imperfect Lesson 21.3 Hiphil: Cohortative through Infinitive Weingreen, p.115 Lesson 21.4 Hophal: Perfect through Infinitive Lesson 21 Vocabulary Lesson 21 Practice Lesson 21 Assignment Exercise W21: 5, 7, 8, 9; then do 3 and 4. *Post your profile on CIU Online. Exercises: W denotes items from the Hebrew section of the numbered exercise in Weingreen. All exercise assignments are due by midnight Monday following the class week (e.g., this week Exercise 20 is due by midnight March 4) Wk 3 Feb 17-21 Hithpael Quiz 1 Weingreen, pp. 118-20 Lesson 22.1 Hithpael: Perfect Lesson 22.2 Hithpael: Imperfect through Infinitive Lesson 22 Vocabulary Lesson 22 Practice Lesson 22 Assignment Exercise W22: 3, 4 (see pp. 58, 65), 6, 7, 8. *Review verb tables, including the charts in the back of the book. * Read the list on accent signs in Weingreen pp. 251-252. Quizzes are due by midnight on Friday of the class week in which they are scheduled.
HEB 5111 Online [Spring 2014] - 6 Lesson 22 Exercise OT#1: do the following exercise. Give a literal translation of Gen 3: 8-10 and parse all the verbs. OT = Old Testament text Note: For all OT texts, you are to parse all the verb forms Wk 4 Feb 24-28 Wk 5 Mar 3-7 Wk 6 Mar 10-14 Verbal Suffixes of the Perfect Verbal Suffixes of the Imperfect, etc. The Relative Pronouns The Weak, Pe Nun Weingreen, pp. 123-127 Lesson 23.1 Verbal Suffixes of the Perfect: Part 1 Lesson 23.2 Verbal Suffixes of the Perfect: Part 2 Lesson 23 Vocabulary Lesson 23 Practice Exercise W23: 2, 5, 6, 7 Lesson 23 OT#2: Listen to the presentation and then do the following exercise. Exercise O T#2: Give a literal translation of Gen. 24:7, 28:20 ("And Jacob..."), and 47:30, and parse all the verbs. QUIZ 2 Weingreen pp. 130-133. Lesson 24 Verbal Suffixes of the Imperfect, etc. Lesson 24 Vocabulary Lesson 24 Practice Exercise W 24: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Weingreen, pp. 135-137. Lesson 25 Relative Pronouns Lesson 25 Vocabulary Lesson 25 Practice Exercise W 25: 8,13 Lesson 25 OT#3: Listen to the presentation and then do the following exercise. Exercise O T#3: Give a literal translation of Ps. 23:1-4 and parse all the verbs. Weingreen, pp. 139-145. Lesson 26 The Weak, Pe Nun Lesson 26 Vocabulary Lesson 26 Practice Exercise W 26: 1, 2, 5, 9 Lesson 26 Translation:
HEB 5111 Online [Spring 2014] - 7 translate Ps. 19:3 and parse the verbs. Weingreen, pp. 148-151. Wk 7 Mar 17-21 Wk 8 Mar 24-28 Wk 9 Mar 31-Apr 4 Verb Patterns Review The }tn, xql Pe Guttural Pe 'Aleph `Ayin Guttural Lamed Guttural Lamed 'Aleph Lesson 27 Verb Patterns Review. The }tn, xql Lesson 27 Vocabulary Lesson 27 Practice Exercise W 27: 2, 5, 9, 10. Lesson 27 Translation: translate Ps. 1:3-4 and parse the verbs as much as you know. Among the difficult items are a passive participle and a pe-nun verb. MID-TERM EXAM Weingreen, pp. 154-158 Lesson 28 Pe Guttural Lesson 28 Vocabulary Lesson 28 Practice Exercise W 28: 3, 6, 13, 14 Lesson 28 Translation: translate Deut. 6:13 and parse all the verbs. Weingreen, pp. 161-163 Lesson 29 Pe 'Aleph Lesson 29 Vocabulary Lesson 29 Practice Exercise W 29: 2, 5, 6 Quiz 3 Weingreen, pp. 166-170 Lesson 30 `Ayin Guttural Lesson 30 Vocabulary Lesson 30 Practice Weingreen, pp. 172-174 Lesson 31 Lamed Guttural Lesson 31 Practice Lesson 31 Vocabulary Exercise W 30: 2; W 31: 6, 11, 12 Weingreen, pp. 178-181 Lesson 32 Lamed 'Aleph Lesson 32 Vocabulary Lesson 32 Practice Exercise W 32: 2, 3, 7 Lesson 32 Translation: This is the cut off for the material you will be responsible for on the Mid-Term Exam **Review for MIDTERM EXAM** Mid-term Exam and Daily Review Record 1 Due by midnight April 12
HEB 5111 Online [Spring 2014] - 8 Wk 10 Apr 7-11 Wk 11 Apr 14-18 Wk 12 Apr 21-25 Some Doubly Weak Pe Yod and Pe Waw `Ayin Waw and `Ayin Yod `Ayin Waw Continued More Doubly Weak translate Gen. 1:27 and parse all the verbs Weingreen, pp. 184-185 Lesson 33 Some Doubly Weak Lesson 33 Vocabulary Lesson 33 Practice Exercise W 33: 3, 7, 12 Weingreen, pp. 187-192 Lesson 34 Pe Yod and Pe Waw Lesson 34 Vocabulary Lesson 34 Practice Exercise W 34: 2, 4, 11 Lesson 34 Translation: translate Deut. 26:5 and parse the verbs dryw, rgyw QUIZ 4 Weingreen, pp. 196-202 Lesson 35 `Ayin Waw and `Ayin Yod Lesson 35 Vocabulary Lesson 35 Practice Exercise W 35: 4, 7, 10 Lesson 35 Translation: translate Ps. 118:24 and parse the verbs Lesson 35 Exercise OT#4: do the following exercise Exercise O T#4: Give a literal translation of Deut. 6:12, 22-23, and parse all the verbs ()ybh is a hiphil) Weingreen, pp. 205-207 Lesson 36 `Ayin Waw Lesson 36 Vocabulary Lesson 36 Practice Lesson 36 Translation: translate Deut. 7:4 and parse the verbs Weingreen, pp. 210-213 Lesson 37 More Doubly Weak Lesson 37 Vocabulary Lesson 37 Practice Exercise W 36: 2; W37: 6 Weingreen, pp. 216-220 Recitation of Psalm 23 Due midnight May 3.
HEB 5111 Online [Spring 2014] - 9 Wk 13 Apr 28-May 2 Wk 14 May 5-9 Wk 15 May 12-16 Lamed He' More Doubly Weak Double `Ayin, Defective Review Week: FINAL EXAM Lesson 38 Lamed He' Lesson 38 Vocabulary Lesson 38 Practice Lesson 38 Translation: translate Jer. 22:12 and parse the verbs Weingreen, pp. 224-227 Lesson 39 More Doubly Weak Lesson 39 Vocabulary Lesson 39 Practice Exercise W 38: 2, 7; W 39: 4. QUIZ 5 Weingreen, pp. 231-234, 237-238 Lessons 40, 41 Double `Ayin, Defective Lesson 40 Vocabulary Lesson 41 Vocabulary Lessons 40, 41 Practice Lesson 40 Translation: translate Josh. 6:2-4 and parse the verbs (no exercises in Weingreen) Weingreen, pp. 242-245 on Numerals (no exercises) Lessons 42 Vocabulary FINAL EXAM Final Exam and Daily Review Record Due Midnight May 16
HEB 5111 Online [Spring 2014] - 10 Name DAILY REVIEW RECORD #1 Submit at Mid-term Exam Daily review is the key to mastering a new language. You are asked to keep a daily log so that points will be given to recognize your effort. You need to spend about 20 min. each day to review vocabulary/grammar and lessons, at least 5 of these 20 min. must be used for one of these. Extra review time will not be carried over to make up for a missing day. Check the vocab. column after review, similarly for the column of reading the new lesson ahead before class. Check digitally and DATE Review voc & lessons Read lesson ahead Notes DATE Review voc & lessons Read lesson ahead Notes Wk 1 Mon. Wk 5 Mon. Thu. Wk 2 Mon. Wk 6 Mon. Wk 3 Mon Wk 7 Mon. Wk 4 Mon. Wk 8 Mon. Mid. Exam Check one of these boxes BEFORE submitting: I have followed the daily review schedule: Completely [ ] Mostly or partly [ ]
HEB 5111 Online [Spring 2014] - 11 Name DAILY REVIEW RECORD #2 Submit with Final Exam You need to spend about 20 min. each day to review vocabulary/grammar and lessons, at least 5 of these 20 min. must be used for one of these. Extra review time will not be carried over to make up for a missing day. Check the vocab. column after review, similarly for the column of reading the new lesson ahead before class. DATE Review voc & lessons Read lesson ahead Notes DATE Review voc & lessons Read lesson ahead Notes Wk 9 Mon. Wk 12 Mon. Thu. Wk 10 Mon. Wk 13 Mon. Wk 11 Mon Wk 14 Mon. Final Exam You need to check one of these boxes BEFORE submitting: I have followed the daily review schedule: Completely [ ] Mostly or partly [ ]