Biblical Hebrew Forum

[mjoseph <mjoseph AT terminal.cz>]

Tony Starks wrote:

>I'm about to embark on a journey through "waltke and O'connor's 
>Introduction to Biblical hebrew Syntax."Can those who took that journey 
>give me some directions on how to get the most from this "grammar"?How did 
>you use it and remember the rules of grammar? Those who presently teach 
>from this book,how did you aid your students to recall these facts? Any 
>MAPS out there?

I can't say that this is a map, nor can I vouch that this is the way to 
get the most from the book, but I can tell you what I did. I read through 
the entire book, and translated all of the examples. In other words, I 
studied it like I was in school.

One other thing--for grammatical features which do multiple duty 
(perfective and imperfective especially), at the end of the chapter I did 
up a concise outline of the uses of the feature, so I have something like 
a mini-handbook with just the facts (different uses of the "tenses," 
"cases," and stems).

The book is easy reading, with enough illustrations near the beginning 
that I could read parts of it to my wife (who knows no Hebrew). Enjoy!

Hope this helps,

Mark Joseph