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2025-2026 Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Catalog

HEB 113 - Elementary Biblical Hebrew 1

3 credit hours - Three hours weekly; one term.
This course meets the Arts & Humanities General Education Requirement. 

Develop vocabulary and grammar skills for reading and writing Biblical Hebrew.

Note: This course is not designed to teach spoken modern Hebrew. It focuses solely on reading, writing, and translating biblical (ancient) Hebrew.

Course Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  1. Use novice-mid level grammatical and syntactical elements of Biblical Hebrew.
  2. Read and write Biblical Hebrew at a novice-mid level.
  3. Translate Biblical Hebrew passages with the aid of a dictionary.
  4. Discuss elements of Hebrew and non-Hebrew civilizations of the ancient Middle East.