This revised edition of the best-selling Biblical Hebrew is thoroughly updated and augmented for a new generation of students. Designed for use in a two-semester course, the book is part of a comprehensive learning program that also includes three new audio CDs and a Supplement that provides review activities.

This textbook will teach students who have completed an introductory course in biblical Hebrew how to read and interpret a wide range of texts from the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible. The text includes drills and exercises for classroom use.

This comprehensive and up-to-date dictionary contains some 30,000 entries, including contemporary technical terms, recently coined Hebrew words, and translations for common idioms. Designed in an easy-to-use format, it features meticulous pronunciation information and is the first dictionary to focus on the accurate translation of words with multiple meanings.

This Hebrew-English dictionary is an up-to-date, easy to use, and inexpensive tool to enable students and other readers to understand contemporary Hebrew texts. It presents over 20,000 listings, many of which are not found in other Hebrew-English dictionaries. Special attention is given to the language of the media, with vocabulary (including current political terms, names of institutions, and abb...

A monumental work, Max Weinreich’s History of the Yiddish Language is the definitive account of the Yiddish language from its origin to the present. This two-volume set translates Weinreich’s full text as well as his copious footnotes and references into English for the first time.

Alexander Harkavy (1863–1939) is credited with almost single-handedly creating an intellectual environment conducive to Yiddish, and his trilingual dictionary is an indispensable tool for research in Yiddish language and literature. This dictionary has been a classic since it originally appeared in New York in 1925.

This clear, comprehensive textbook is the first to teach biblical Hebrew to college-level students of modern Hebrew. It utilizes authentic biblical texts in both its explanations of fundamental points and in its numerous well-constructed exercises.

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