Read the Hebrew Bible Tutorial Videos

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Let's suppose you want to understand the original Hebrew in the Tanakh. Really understand it, not just be able to read the Hebrew Alphabet and know the meaning of a few Biblical Hebrew words.

Maybe you think your next step is to read a Biblical Hebrew grammar (or two). On its own, studying a Biblical Hebrew Grammar will not enable you to understand the Tanakh. Even if you understand the whole of Biblical Hebrew Grammar, before you can truly understand the Tanakh you still need to systematically go through every word and verse in the Tanakh. You need to understand how every Hebrew word is built up – what the root is, what the form is, what words it is related to, how it is used, what it means. That means spending HOURS understanding Hebrew grammar and applying it to every word of the Tanakh in turn. Doing that yourself with a grammar, with nobody to ask or to answer questions, is a huge undertaking.

There is another way. A new approach is available at the web site Read the Hebrew Bible.

Just imagine if you had a personal tutor, an expert in the Hebrew Bible who would sit down with you, and start explaining every word in the Tanakh, starting from Genesis. Imagine if your Hebrew tutor would systematically explain the grammar, the vocabulary, the translation, the connections between words, word by word, and phrase by phrase in the Tanakh. You would learn far more, far faster, than struggling with a book on Hebrew Grammar. You would understand Hebrew far more than you ever thought possible, or even imagined was in the Tanakh.

If this approach were available, just imagine how fast you would understand the Tanakh. You would leap-frog your understanding ahead of all other methods. You would learn vocabulary in real verses from the Hebrew Bible. You would learn grammar in real verses from the Tanakh, as and when you needed to learn grammar. You would see connections between words that you would never spot yourself.

Well, this is no longer a dream. This approach is now a reality. But rather than paying for a private tutor, a Hebrew Bible expert, to sit by your side and teach you the Hebrew of the Tanakh, you can do this yourself using the online, multimedia video course at Read the Hebrew Bible.

The creator of this multimedia video course has produced a whole set of video tutorials on the Tanakh, starting with Genesis (Sefer Bereshit). Here is how it works:

You access the audio-visual lessons online, using your computer and broadband connection.
You proceed at your own pace, free to re-do lessons any time you want to.
New lessons are introduced systematically, week after week, allowing you to proceed at a steady, sustainable pace.
You can review all previous lessons, replay them, conduct them at your own pace, take notes while you are listening, and so on.
You will be taught systematically, from the Hebrew Bible itself, in small chunks of verses, using a series of online videos which teach you every aspect of those verses. The Hebrew vocabulary, the Hebrew grammar, the meaning of the words, connections between words, the translation, and everything else, is taught together in a holistic way. You are introduced to new features of the Hebrew language as and when you need them.
There is no interpretation. This is purely a method of learning and understanding the Hebrew of the Tanakh, not to teach Judaism.
You decide how fast you want to learn, how much time you take over each lesson, depending on your skill and learning ability.
A free trial period is available.
You have access to a forum, where you can ask questions if you have problems, and have them answered either by other students or by the course creator.

Find out more at Read the Hebrew Bible.

Because of the way this video course works, you are immediately immersed into the Tanakh, and the Hebrew is systematically explained. You will make progress much faster than struggling through the Tanakh yourself, or reading through a Biblical Hebrew grammar, and then trying to understand the Tanakh.

Just imagine what this video course now makes possible. It is the next best thing to having an expert Hebrew teacher at your site, carefully and systematically explaining every word and verse in the Tanakh. Right from Day One, you will be able to open up the Tanakh and start to genuinely understand it.

Until you understand the Tanakh, until you can actually open the Hebrew Bible and understand God's Word in the original Hebrew, you will never be able to truly understand and appreciate the meaning of the Hebrew Bible. You will always be dependent on others to explain it, always at the mercy of a translation, and never able to see the beauty and wonder of the original Hebrew. Studying the Tanakh without knowing Hebrew is like trying to understand Shakespeare when you don't understand any English.

Being able to read and understand the Tanakh in Hebrew is the most exciting feeling in the world. You, too, can have this dream come true. Unlike past generations, you no longer have to spend years of your life with Hebrew grammars, lexicons, dictionaries, commentaries open all together, struggling to understand each word of the Tanakh in turn.

You can make this a reality by starting the Read the Hebrew Bible video course today. Give it a try, and learn the Hebrew Bible at your own pace, from your own home. You'll be amazed how interesting it is, and how fast you learn. Don't put off the decision to another time, or another year. Now is the time to act. Find out more:

Read the Hebrew Bible now!

As an alternative to the audio-visual multimedia lessons available at Read the Hebrew Bible (where you study the Hebrew Bible lessons at your own pace, with a forum where you can ask questions), some people will prefer the virtual classroom approach taken by Biblical Hebrew Online. Virtual classrooms give you the ability to ask a teacher questions and participate with other students. Either approach, however, will leap-frog your understanding of the Hebrew Bible, much faster than traditional approaches. If you are serious about learning Biblical Hebrew, why not try both?

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