Hebrew Resources
FONTS
The
instructor uses the SP fonts, distributed to the public by the Society of
Biblical Literature. To obtain these free fonts, click the SP
Fonts link, scroll down to find the Windows or Mac versions. For this
course the SPTiberius Hebrew font will be used. The SPAtlantis transliteration font may also be helpful. (If
you do not have unzip software to extract the files, a
link at the top of the page makes it available.)
(The newer SBL Fonts require a Unicode environment, a keyboard driver, and employ the Israeli keyboard for faster typing by touch typists. The SP Fonts employ an intuitive character match for English and European speakers; for example a dalet is represented on the keyboard by the letter d, the yod by y, etc.)
HEBREW LEXICONS (DICTIONAIRIES)
Each student
will need a good Hebrew Lexicon, either:
Brown, F.; Driver, S. R.; and Briggs, C. E. A Hebrew and English Lexicon
of the Old Testament.
~ or ~
Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner,
Walter and Stamm, Johann Jakob. The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament. Trans. and ed. M.E.J. Richardson.
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The older Gesenius Hebrew Lexicon (predecessor of the BDB) may also be of some use, it is available online through Tyndale House.
For a more comprehensive dictionary of Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew and Aramaic, an old standard work is Jastrow’s Dictionary of the Talmud, also made available online by Tyndale House.