After years if classroom testing and development, this major new textbook is offered for learning Biblical Hebrew. The author, one of today's foremost teachers of Hebrew to university students, clergymen, and laymen, incorporates the best contemporary methods and techniques for teaching languages. Well-integrates photographs and illustrations make for an attractive, inviting text for all those who wish to master Biblical Hebrew.

To augment the basic stress on grammatical structure, reading skills, comprehension, and vocabularly, the author has added special section sections on the development of the Hebrew language and its relationship to other ancient semitic languages. also included are carefully selected passages of Biblical prose and tables showing the basic patterns of verbs and nouns.