ABOUT THE COURSE
Biblical Hebrew is the primary language that the 39 books of the Tanach are written in. (The Tanach is the Hebrew Bible, sometimes called the Old Testemant. Biblical Hebrew is written and read from right to left. Hebrew has its own alphabet. Hebrew letters do not have uppercase and lowercase forms. Hebrew letters can be written in different scripts. A script is the way the letters look. The script used in this course, as well as most mod ern Hebrew Bibles, is called the Babylonian script. Hebrew uses vowel points, which are small symbols written underneath of the letters, to indicate vowel sounds (i.e., the sounds of A, E, I, O, and U). Hebrew letters and vowels can be pronounced in different ways. These different ways of pronouncing Hebrew are called dialects. This course teaches the Modern dialect, also known as the Israeli dialect. You may hear some of the letters and vowels pronounced differently from speakers using different dialects.