Bible Language Resources for Preachers
maintained by Peter F. Whyte
(additional suggestions
welcome)
As this page is always changing you will find a chronological
list of additions to the preaching resources section of the site
on the recent additions page.
Peter Mead[info]
"No Greek or Hebrew? A Tip", Biblical Preaching, 18 Sep 2008.
Greek
Duncan Forbes ‘Using the Greek New Testament for devotions’, part 1, Duncan Forbes blog, 4 Feb 2008. This is part of an ongoing series, the rest of which can be found in the devotional postings on the site.
Matt Harmon has some useful suggestions for “Maintaining Your Greek” at the Biblical Theology blog, 20 April 2007. Matt is Associate Professor of New Testament Studies, Grace Theological Seminary, and has other useful postings on various theological topics and exegesis of several Bible passages. He plans a similar page on Hebrew resources, to which we will provide a link when it appears.
Lee Irons has made a reading schedule for 2009 available for his Annual Greek New Testament Reading Programme. There are syntax notes available for every NT book to help make it easier to read without constantly needing to refer to a lexicon or grammar. There are printing instructions for how to make up the notes into booklets. Although they are letter size paper, I found they printed on A4 paper if they were auto-centred. I use Foxit Reader, but I assume Adobe Reader will work just as well. (Peter)
Hellenisti ginoskeis: do you know Greek? “is a blog all about reading, understanding, translating the Greek New Testament.” Daniel J. Phillips continues, “My essays here are not necessarily disciplined, definitive articles. They are musings, observations, puzzlings, popping-offs, speculations, complaints, pronouncements, questions. I hope other students of the Greek New Testament will join in the Comments, to our mutual growth in understanding this God-breathed marvel.”
Peter Misselbrook has a site called Misselbrook's Musings containing Notes on the Greek New Testament in Word and PDF formats. They are basically “notes designed to encourage those who want to read through the Greek New Testament. The notes are arranged for daily reading covering 5 years (1250 days of notes designed for five days a week and 50 weeks a year). ... The notes are designed for those who have an elementary knowledge of New Testament Greek. Help is provided with grammar and vocabulary and with comprehension and interpretation of the text.” There are also articles on textual and doctrinal topics.
Peter Misselbrook is a member of Pendennis Evangelical Church, Bristol.
James Voelz can be seen and heard via iTunes U teaching from his book Fundamental Greek Grammar at Concordia Seminary. You can download the 327 tracks in audio and/or video from Exegetical Resources under the title Elementary Greek. Also available in Exegetical Resources is audio sessions from the Greek Club, which since Summer 2007 has been systematically examining the Gospel of Matthew.
zhubert.com has been superseded by re:greek (The Resurgence Greek Project). You can read the Bible text in English (NASB, ESV, KJV), Greek and Hebrew with popup parsing and a concordance. From what I've seen of it, it looks extremely useful. (For the technically minded it is written in Ruby on Rails and is a Web 2.0 application, which basically means the pages are updated much more quickly and smoothly.)
Hebrew
We are indebted to Colin Burcombe (Mersey Street Presbyterian Church) who has contributed the majority of the Hebrew resources.
Academy of Ancient Languages has links to 3 courses from the University of Washington, and audio tracks of each chapter of the Old Testament.
William D. Barrick, has a wealth of lecture materials, and sermons containing Hebrew in use, including sermons or Sunday School lessons on most of the Psalms (mostly in pdf format).
Concordia Seminary, St Louis has a multimedia Basic Hebrew course that requires iTunes.
Daily Hebrew is a blog that has postings on several OT books with full Hebrew text together with vocabulary and syntax helps. Don't be misled by the title — postings can be sporadic, rather than daily, but there is quite a lot already posted, so it is a useful resource. There are also regular short notes about other topics relating to OT study.
Tom Finley (Professor and Chair, Department of Semitics & Old Testament, Talbot School of Theology, Biola University) has produced good introductions to Bibleworks versions 6.0 and 7.0. He has also published other useful material for the Hebrew student and preacher, like OT Expositional Tools, and Hebrew Paradigms.
FoundationStone is a free and easy way to learn Hebrew. This basic course includes exercises with answers, as well as audio to develop listening skills. You can also download it to use as a Java application offline.
Russell T. Fuller and Kyoungwon Choi,
Invitation to Biblical Hebrew: A Beginning Grammar,
Invitation to Theological Studies.
Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2006. 364 pp.
[reviews:
Jim Hamilton]
Siegfried Kreuzer, Basic Hebrew Vocabulary 500, is a vocabulary list of the 500 most frequent Hebrew words, and is intended to help you keeping up your Hebrew. Most of the rest of Dr Kreuzer's site is in German, but there are a few English resources available.
Mechon Mamre is a site with a parallel Hebrew/English Bible (a very literal Jewish translation, JPS 1917).
Regent College, LANG 510/511: Introductory Old Testament Hebrew. This is an excellent 'crash' basic Hebrew course with both text and (selected) audio available online.
Allen Ross, has a series of word studies . He has written a good Hebrew textbook, for which animated Hebrew lectures are available.
A. Vaughan Biblical Hebrew I, ?? University. This basic course links to an early online version of a Hebrew textbook, including some audio files for pronunciation.
Peter F. Whyte (compiler), ‘Bible Language Resources for Preachers’, 18 Jun 2007, last updated 9 Dec 2007 Gilnahirk Baptist Church Web site. http://www.gilnahirkbaptist.org.uk/resources/study/preaching.languages.php (accessed 6 Jan 2009).
