Sunday, June 8, 2008
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About my Blog
- maklelan
The name maklelan is a phonetic spelling of my last name. I used it while living in South America so the locals could pronounce my name, but it has since become a rather unique and convenient moniker.
This blog will focus primarily on the languages of the ancient Near East. I received a BA in ancient Near Eastern studies from Brigham Young University and am reading for the master of studies degree in Jewish Studies at the University of Oxford. My training has focused Biblical Hebrew, Aramaic, Ugaritic, and Greek. I hope to use this blog to report on research I'm conducting, to comment on translation as I move through various texts (primarily the Hebrew Bible), and to provide news of particular interest to me. Any and all comments are welcome. You can comment here or email me personally:
maklelan@yahoo.com.ar
Have a great day!
2 comments:
What's the best resource for teaching yourself beginning Biblical Hebrew?
There are a number of good Biblical Hebrew textbooks that can get you a long way, but none of them will be able to answer all your questions or explain grammar to you just the way you need it explained. Having someone available with knowledge of Biblical Hebrew is very important.
One of the standards is Lambdin's Introduction to Biblical Hebrew. It's kind of old, but it holds up. A more recent grammar is Gary Pratico's Basics of Biblical Hebrew Grammar. Another is Russell Fuller's Invitation to Biblical Hebrew.
John Cook has a preliminary manuscript of his Hebrew grammar available online at this address:
http://individual.utoronto.ca/holmstedt/Textbook.html
You can also find several online tutorials if you Google "learn biblical hebrew online" or something like that.
Once you get into parsing, a good resource for testing yourself is the following website:
http://ulrikp.dk/bp/
You'll also want a copy of the Hebrew Bible (BHS is the standard), a good lexicon (Brown, Driver, and Briggs is cheap but old), and, after a while, a good reference grammar.
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