calendar OF AssignmentS — Spring 2006
Homework Index		Syllabus
Week 1 • 6–10 Feb Week 2 • 13–17 Feb Week 3 • 20–24 Feb Week 4 • 27 Feb – 3 Mar Week 5 • 6–10 Mar Week 6 • 13–17 Mar Week 7 • 20–24 Mar Spring Break • 27 March – 7 April	Week 8 • 10–14 April Week 9 • 17–21 April Week 10 • 24–28 April Week 11 • 1–5 May Revision Week • 8–12 May Examinations • 15–26 May	The course syllabus can be downloaded here.
Class Schedule — Overview This is the proposed class schedule and is subject to change as the course progresses. Last updated: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.

		יוֹם שֵׁנִי	יוֹם שְׁלִישִׁי	יוֹם רְבִיעִי	יוֹם חֲמִישִׁי	יוֹם שִׁשִּׁי
February		Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
1.	6–10	Course Intro Constructs	Pron. Suffixes on Nouns/Prep	Language Acquisition	Grammar Quiz Pron Suffixes	Vocab Quiz 1 Jonah 1:1–3
2.	13–17	Qal Perfect Qal Imperfect	Vav Consecutives	BDB 1	Grammar Quiz Qal Perf / Impef	Vocab Quiz 2 Jonah 1:4–10
3.	20–24	Qal Perfect Weak	Qal Imperfect Weak	BDB 2 Wideline Texts	Vocab Quiz 3	Jonah 1:11–16
		יוֹם שֵׁנִי	יוֹם שְׁלִישִׁי	יוֹם רְבִיעִי	יוֹם חֲמִישִׁי	יוֹם שִׁשִּׁי
March		Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
4.	27–3	Volitionals, Inf and Participles	Niphal	BHS 1	Grammar Quiz Niphal	Vocab Quiz 4 Jonah 2:1–5
5.	6–10	Piel	Pual and Hithpael	BHS 2	Grammar Quiz Piel	Vocab Quiz 5 Jonah 2:6–11
6.	13–17	Hiphil	Hophal	Hebrew Poetry and Jonah 2	Grammar Quiz Hiphil	Vocab Quiz 6 Jonah 3:1–4
7.	20–24	Consolidation of Derived Stems	Review for Class Exam 1	Review for Class Exam 1	Class Exam 1	Class Canceled
SPRING BREAK: 27 March – 7 April
		יוֹם שֵׁנִי	יוֹם שְׁלִישִׁי	יוֹם רְבִיעִי	יוֹם חֲמִישִׁי	יוֹם שִׁשִּׁי
April		Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
8.	10–14	Introduction to Weak Verbs	Weak Verbs Niphal	Jonah 3:5–10	Vocab Quiz 7 Weak — Piel	GOOD FRIDAY No Class
9.	17–21	Weak Verbs	Weak Verbs Hiphil	Consolidating Weak Verbs	Pron. Suffixes Verbs — Perf	Vocab Quiz 8 Jonah 4:1–5
10.	24–28	Review for Class Exam 2	Review for Class Exam 2	Tutorial Cancelled	Class Exam 2	Jonah 4:6–11 Literary Struct.
May		Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
11.	1–5	MAY DAY No Class	Pron. Suffixes Verbs — Imperf	Text Criticism 1	Text Criticism 2	Vocab Quiz 9 Celebration
REVISION WEEK: 8–12 May
EXAMINATIONS: 15–26 May

Homework Index
Week 11 שָׁבוּעַ עֲשִׂירִי
Sunday — 30 April 2006 5766 יוֹם רִאשׁוֹן –– בׄ אִיָּר
Sunday — 2 Iyyar 5766
Monday — 1 May 2006 5766 יוֹם שֵׁנִי –– גׄ אִיָּר
Monday — 3 Iyyar 5766
NO CLASS	— MAY DAY
Vocabulary:	Begin working on Vocabulary List 9 • Comprised of Landes’ Lists 77–78. I do have HebrewCards and Audio files for these here. • N.B. Phil doesn’t have these cards. • Irregular Noun of the Week — יָם (sea)
Tuesday — 2 May 2006 5766 יוֹם שְׁלִישִׁי –– דׄ אִיָּר
Tuesday — 4 Iyyar 5766
Note:	The following is the homework to be done following Tuesday’s lecture. You do not need to come to class having done any of this although if you have time to do the reading you will be better prepared for the lecture.
Reading:	Basics — 19. Pronominal Suffixes on Verbs • 19:6–9, 14 Seow — XXII.1. The Imperfect and Imperative with Object Suffixes • pp. 247–49
Exercises:	BasicsWB — 19. Pronominal Suffixes on Verbs • Parsing: Part 2, all • Parsing: Part 3, all Verb Practice 7: Qal Imperfect, Converted Imperfect, Jussive and Cohortative Verbs With and Without Suffixes • This will be handed out in class on Tuesday. • all
Wednesday — 3 May 2006 • Text Criticism 5766 יוֹם רְבִיעִי –– הׄ אִיָּר
Wednesday — 5 Iyyar 5766
Preparation:	Read the following chapters from Ellis R. Brotzman, Old Testament Textual Criticism: A Practical Introduction (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker, 1994). Read the whole chapter to gain the larger perspective, and then reread in more detail the pages that are identified. You may find the charts particularly useful as you work through these pages. I know there is a lot of information here. One of the things I am wanting you to get a handle on is the process of transmission and in particular the relationship of the Hebrew versions and the Greek versions which is quite complex. • 2: Transmission of the Old Testament in Hebrew (esp. pp. 42–46, 55–62) • 3: Ancient Versions of the Old Testament (esp. pp. 72–80)
What to Bring:	All of the handouts that I have given you regarding Text Criticism; your notes and questions.
Thursday — 4 May 2006 5766 יוֹם שְׁלִישִׁי –– וׄ אִיָּר
Thursday — 6 Iyyar 5766
Reading:	Read the following chapters from Ellis R. Brotzman, Old Testament Textual Criticism: A Practical Introduction (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker, 1994). • 7: Principles and Practice of Textual Criticism. This is a fairly short chapter, just ten pages. So read the whole chapter, paying particular attention to the principles that are discussed in the section entitled, Evaluation of Variants on pages 126–129. • 8: Textual Commentary on the Book of Ruth. In addition, I would like you to read through Brotzman’s discussions of a handful of the textual variants in the first chapter of Ruth. This will give you some sense of how the principles of textual criticism are applied in specific situations. I will give you pages 133–39 but do not read everything in these pages, just the following variants: 1:1a, 1:1b; 1:14a; 1:19a, 1:19b. • As you follow the discussions make sure you can decipher the notations in the BHS for each variant. I will also provide you with a copy of the first page of Ruth from the BHS.
Exercises:	To be announced….
Friday — 5 May 2006 5766 יוֹם שִׁשִּׁי –– זׄ אִיָּר
Friday — 7 Iyyar 5766
Vocabulary Quiz:	Vocabulary Quiz 9 (Comprised of Landes’ Lists 77–78) Irregular Noun of the Week: יָם (sea)
Review for Final	We will spend a little time going over what you will encounter on the file and where to focus your revision.
Celebration	Bring whatever food and drink you would like.
Saturday — 6 May 2006 5766 יוֹם שַׁבָּת –– אׄ אִיָּר
Shabbat — 1 Iyyar 5766

Homework Index
Week 10 שָׁבוּעַ עֲשִׂירִי
Sunday — 23 April 2006 5766 יוֹם רִאשׁוֹן –– כׄהׄ נִיסָן
Sunday — 25 Nisan 5766
Monday — 24 April 2006 5766 יוֹם שֵׁנִי –– כׄוׄ נִיסָן
Monday — 26 Nisan 5766
Reading:	None
Vocabulary:	In preparation for Exam 1 on Thursday, continue reviewing the vocabulary we have done thus far.
Tuesday — 25 April 2006 5766 יוֹם שְׁלִישִׁי –– כׄזׄ נִיסָן
Tuesday — 27 Nisan 5766
Reading:	To be announced….
Exercises:	To be announced….
Wednesday — 26 April 2006 5766 יוֹם רְבִיעִי –– כׄחׄ נִיסָן
Wednesday — 28 Nisan 5766
	The Tutorial Has Been Cancelled
Thursday — 28 April 2006 • Class Exam 2 5766 יוֹם חֲמִישִׁי –– כׄטׄ נִיסָן
Thursday — 29 Nisan 5766
Class Exam:	The class exam will focus upon two main areas — translation and parsing of verbal forms, though of course a host of other skills and information will be assessed within these two main areas: ability to figure out the tri-consonantal root, familiarity with the BDB. The exam will consist of two parts. A. Parsing — Worth 25% of the Exam. The first part of the exam is a parsing section in which you will be responsible for parsing 10 out of the 14 verb forms. All of the verb forms will occur in the translation section of the exam. B. Parsing — Worth 75% of the Exam. The second part of the exam is a translation section in which you will be responsible for translating into idiomatic English about 9–10 verses from the same passage in the Old Testament. I will provide some translation helps for infrequent words or forms, for proper names, etc. The translation helps will not, however, always give you the translation but will provide you with enough information to allow you to apply your knowledge. For example, I might simply give the tri-consonantal root for a verb expecting you to figure out the form and/or be able to look it up in BDB. I might, for instance, tell you that something is spelled defectively if it is a familiar word that looks foreign because it has lost its vowel letter. As for pronominal suffixes on verbs, I do not plan on glossing every verb form that has a pronominal suffix, even if we haven’t covered it specifically in class, but only those that are particularly confusing because in many cases I think that if you are familiar enough with your strong verb conjugations you will be able to see that a verb form has a pronominal suffix. NOTE. You MAY use your BDB lexicon on all parts of the exam.
Revision Suggestions	Here are a few suggestions for revision. Need I add the disclaimer that these are suggestions and do not necessarily imply that these are the only things you might need to work on. • For practice with recognizing and parsing weak verbs, I would suggest some of sections of Linda S. Haney’s “Verb Practice,” in particular 15–20 or maybe just 17–20. See here. • For translation practice, I would recommend Exodus 6:2–8, Deuteronomy 6:4–9, and Nehemiah 9:9–15, all of which are in your BasicsWB, pp. 297–302. • And of course, it is always important to keep up on your vocabulary.
Friday — 28 April 2006 5766 יוֹם שִׁשִּׁי –– לׄ נִיסָן
Friday — 30 Nisan 5766
Translation:	Jonah 4:6–11
Vocabulary Quiz:	No Vocabulary Quiz
Saturday — 29 April 2006 5766 יוֹם שַׁבָּת –– אׄ אִיָּר