Here are a few resources for learning the language of the Hebrew Bible.
First you will need a nice Hebrew font, such as:
- Cardo—a beautiful book face with Greek and Hebrew character sets that have matching vertical metrics (along with numerous other ancient scripts of scholarly interest)
- SBL Hebrew
- Ezra SIL
Cardo is a nice overall face, and the flashcard decks below are setup to use it by default. There are some flaws in the Hebrew characters, though, and it requires full OpenType support for pointed Hebrew to display correctly. SBL Hebrew and Ezra SIL are both very good options for just the Hebrew characters.
Vocabulary card decks
First you will need Anki, which is an excellent free flashcard program which will run on Windows, Mac or Linux. It doesn’t look particularly beautiful but works well. Then download a deck (I will add to this list over time):
- Robson 1—these cards are based on James Robson’s first year Hebrew classes. The words are tagged by chapter in Kelley, based on the Kelley deck available in Anki, but with numerous corrections. I have also modified glosses and forms to match James’ vocab sheets, and I have added a number of extra sections, on inseparable prepositions, IDPPs, numbers, and irregular plurals.
- Robson 2—unsurprisingly, these are based on James’ second year Hebrew classes. This deck is based off the frequency-tagged Biblical Hebrew deck available in Anki, but with a number of corrections applied, and glosses and forms modified to match James’ vocab sheets.