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Dictionaries and Lexicons

• A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Luzac/Putnam, 1903) - by Marcus Jastrow
• Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament (1906) - by H.W.F. Gesenius

Discussion Fora

• B-Hebrew - e-mail discussion group

General Information

• Consonants and Vowels in the Hebrew Script - by Helmut Richter
• The Hebrew Alphabet
• Morim

Humor

• HBRW - by Jessica Shaver, Theology Today 46 (1989)

Historical Development

• Late Biblical Hebrew and the Qumran Pesher Habakkuk - by Ian Young, Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 8.25 (2008)
• Linguistic Ideology in Qumran Hebrew - by Willliam M. Schniedewind, pp. 245–255 in Symposium Volume of the Beersheva Conference on the Language of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Nov 1998) (Brill, 2000)
• Prolegomena for the Sociolinguistics of Classical Hebrew - by William M. Schniedewind, Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 5.6 (2004)

Information Technology

• CCAT Transliteration Standard for Hebrew and Greek
• Déchiffrer l’hébreu - French instructions for displaying Hebrew in web browsers

Methodology

• Hebrew Linguistics and Biblical Criticism: A Minimalist Programme - by Vincent de Caën, Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 3.6 (2001)
• Issues in the Linguistic Analysis of a Dead language, with Particular Reference to Ancient Hebrew - by Robert Holmstedt, Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 6.11 (2006)

Online Courses and Textbooks

• A Concise Linguistic e-Introduction to Biblical Hebrew - by Vincent DeCaen
• Ancient Hebrew: A Student Grammar - by John A. Cook and Robert D. Holmstedt
• Milingua - online modern Hebrew language instruction at multiple levels
• Online Hebrew Tutorial - by Ben Stitz

Philology

• Bible Study Tools Lexicon - searchable Brown-Driver-Briggs database, keyed to Strong's, KJV and ASV
• Lexicons - document from the Yale University Library briefly describing the use of the Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon
• Semantics of Ancient Hebrew Database

Regional Dialects

• The Dialect of the Elijah-Elisha Narratives: A Case Study in Northern Hebrew -by William M. Schniedewind and Daniel Sivan, Jewish Quarterly Review 137 (1997) 303–337

Social Aspects

• Prolegomena for the Sociolinguistics of Classical Hebrew - by William M. Schniedewind, Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 5.6 (2004)

Bibliography

• An Annotated Bibliography for Learning Biblical Hebrew - by Tyler F. Williams, North American Baptist College

Book Reviews

• Bartelt, Andrew H., Fundamental Biblical Hebrew (Concordia, 2000)
  • Reviewed by R. Christopher Heard, Review of Biblical Literature (2000)
  • Reviewed by Robin Gallagher Branch, Review of Biblical Literature (2000)
• Brettler, Marc Zvi, Biblical Hebrew for Students of Modern Israeli Hebrew (Yale, 2001)
  • Reviewed by Archie T. Wright, Review of Biblical Literature (2003)
  • Reviewed by H. Eldon Clem, Review of Biblical Literature (2005)
• Chiesa, Bruno, Filologia storica della Bibbia ebraica (Paideia Editrice, 2002) - reviewed by Paul Sanders, Review of Biblical Literature (2003)
• Chisholm, Robert, A Workbook for Intermediate Hebrew: Grammar, Exegesis, and Commentary on Jonah and Ruth (Kregel, 2006) - reviewed by Stefan Fischer, Review of Biblical Literature (2007)
• Clines, David J. A., ed., The Dictionary of Classical Hebrew, vol. 5: נ-מ (Sheffield, 2001) - reviewed by Johan Lust, TC 8 (2003)
• deClaisse-Walford, Nancy L., Biblical Hebrew: An Introductory Textbook (Chalice, 2002)
  • Reviewed by David Jackson, Review of Biblical Literature (2002)
  • Reviewed by Bryan Rocine, Review of Biblical Literature (2002)
• Doukhan, Jacques B., Hebrew for Theologians: A Textbook for the Study of Biblical Hebrew in Relation to Hebrew Thinking - reviewed by Gaila Hatav, Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 3 (2000–2001)
• Ellis, Robert R., Learning to Read Biblical Hebrew: An Introductory Grammar (Baylor, 2006) - reviewed by Max Rogland, Review of Biblical Literature (2008)
• Fields, Lee M., Hebrew for the Rest of Us: Using Hebrew Tools without Mastering Biblical Hebrew (Zondervan, 2008) - reviewed by Francis Dalrymple-Hamilton, Review of Biblical Literature (2009)
• Fuller, Russell and Kyoungwon Choi, Invitation to Biblical Hebrew: A Beginning Grammar (Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2006) - reviewed by Arian Verheij, Review of Biblical Literature (2007)
• Fuller, Russell and Kyoungwon Choi, Invitation to Biblical Hebrew: A Beginning Grammar: Classroom DVDs (Kregel, 2006) - reviewed by Thomas Wagner, Review of Biblical Literature (2007)
• Futato, Mark D., Beginning Biblical Hebrew (Eisenbrauns, 2003) - reviewed by Steven Mason, Review of Biblical Literature (2004)
• Garrett, Duane A., A Modern Grammar for Classical Hebrew (Broadman & Holman, 2002) - reviewed by Christo H. J. Van Der Merwe, Review of Biblical Literature (2002)
• Green, Jennifer S., G. Brooke Lester, and Joseph F. Scrivner, Handbook To A Grammar for Biblical Hebrew: Revised Edition (Abingdon, 2004) -
  • Reviewed by Daniel Bonilla-Rios, Review of Biblical Literature (2005)
  • Reviewed by John Engle, Review of Biblical Literature (2005)
• Joüon, Paul and Takamitsu Muraoka, Gramática del Hebreo Biblico (Verbo Divino, 2007) - reviewed by Victor M. Armenteros Cruz, DavarLogos 7 (2008) 170–171
• Koehler, L. and W. Baumgartner, eds., The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament (The New Koehler-Baumgartner in English) - reviewed by Andrew G. Vaughn, Review of Biblical Literature (2001)
• Landes, George M., Building Your Biblical Hebrew Vocabulary: Learning Words by Frequency and Cognate (SBL, 2001) - reviewed by Albert L. Lukaszewski, Review of Biblical Literature (2002)
• Lehmann, Winfred P., Esther Raizen, and Helen-Jo Jakusz Hewitt, Biblical Hebrew: An Analytical Introduction - reviewed by Gaila Hatav, Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 3 (2000–2001)
• North, Robert, Medicine in the Biblical Background and Other Essays on the Origins of Hebrew (Pontifical Biblical Institute, 2000) - reviewed by Hector Avalos, Review of Biblical Literature (2001)
• Review of Hebrew Interlinears - by Harry Harm of the Summer Institute of Linguistics
• Ross, Allen P., Introducing Biblical Hebrew (Baker, 2001) - reviewed by Jan A. Wagenaar, Review of Biblical Literature (2003)
• Van Pelt, Miles V. and Gary D. Practico, The Vocabulary Guide to Biblical Hebrew (Zondervan, 2003) - reviewed by Ralph W. Klein, Currents in Theology and Mission (April 2005)
• Vance, Donald R., A Hebrew Reader for Ruth (Hendrickson, 2003) - reviewed by Martin Ehrensvärd, Review of Biblical Literature (2004)
• Vance, Donald R., Introduction to Classical Hebrew (Brill, 2004) - reviewed by George Heider, Review of Biblical Literature (2005)
• Walker-Jones, Arthur, Hebrew for Biblical Interpretation (SBL/Brill, 2003) - reviewed by Daryl Jefferies, Review of Biblical Literature (2004)
• Young, Ian, ed., Biblical Hebrew: Studies in Chronology and Typology (T&T Clark, 2003)
  • Reviewed by Ziony Zevit, Review of Biblical Literature (2004)
  • Reviewed by Tamar Zewi, Review of Biblical Literature (2004)