Biblical Hebrew: Learning a Sacred Language pdf

Michael Carasik teaches a 4-semester sequence of Biblical Hebrew at the University of Pennsylvania. He also teaches at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and has taught in the past at Boston's Hebrew College, Northeastern University, the University of Delaware, and Gratz College. A native Chicagoan, he earned his bachelor's degree from New College in Sarasota, Florida; his Master's in Jewish Studies from Spertus College of Judaica in Chicago; and his Ph.D. in Bible and the Ancient Near East from Brandeis University. He is the author of many scholarly articles and reviews, and of two books: Theologies of the Mind in Biblical Israel (Peter Lang) and The Bible's Many Voices (JPS/Nebraska). He's also the creator of the "Commentator's Bible" series, covering Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers; Deuteronomy is forthcoming and Genesis is planned to follow.

Biblical Hebrew: Learning a Sacred Language pdf by Michael Carasik

Most of us first encounter the Hebrew Bible (what Christians call the Old Testament) in translation. We, therefore view it through the lens of someone else’s interpretation, however venerable that interpretation may be. But for many centuries, before translations made the text of the Bible accessible to people around the world, it was read and interpreted in its original language, ancient Hebrew. Jews continue to read the Bible in that language today, and so can you.