Jacob's Dream
Phillip Ratner, Joseph

Hebrew Reading Group

2007–2008

The Life of Joseph

Led by Bernard Bell:

Date: September 13 – December 13; January 10 – June 5 [Thursdays]
Time: 7:00 – 8:30 am
Venue: Room 205, PBCC

Schedule

Date Text   Date Text
Sep 13 Gen 37:1-11 Jan 3 no meeting
Sep 20 Gen 37:12-22 Jan 10 Gen 43:26–44:13
Sep 27 Gen 37:23-36 Jan 17 Gen 44:14-34
Oct 4 Gen 38:1-15 Jan 24 Gen 45:1-20
Oct 11 Gen 38:16-30 Jan 31 Gen 45:21—46:15
Oct 18 Gen 39:1-20 Feb 7 Gen 46:16-34
Oct 25 Gen 39:21–40:15 Feb 14 Gen 47:1-19
Nov 1 Gen 40:16–41:13 Feb 21 Gen 47:20-31
Nov 8 Gen 41:14–36 Feb 28 Gen 48:1-22
Nov 15 Gen 41:37-57 Mar 6 Gen 49:1-10
Nov 22 Thanksgiving: no meeting Mar 13 Gen 49:11-26
Nov 29 Gen 42:1-17 Mar 20 Gen 49:27–50:14
Dec 6 Gen 42:18-38 Mar 27 no meeting
Dec 13 Gen 43:1-25 Apr 3 no meeting
Dec 20 CHRISTMAS BREAK Apr 10 Gen 50:15-26
Dec 27 CHRISTMAS BREAK Apr 18 Gen 1:1-13
  Apr 25 Gen 1:14-26
    May 1 Gen 1:27-31
    May 8 Gen 2:1-9
    May 15 Gen 2:10-15
    May 22 no meeting
    May 29 Gen 2:16-18
    Jun 5 Gen 2:19-25

Readings: the Joseph Story (Genesis 37–50).

Hebrew text (pdf): Joseph (Gen 37–50).
Audio files (mp3): Gen 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50.
Gen 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. NET Bible translation with footnotes (pdf): Joseph.

Other Handouts

Hebrew Verb Charts - a pdf document containing four charts: The Strong Verb, The Stem System, Verb Forms, Mechanical Parsing.

Hebrew 101: The first-year Hebrew class offered in 2006-07 at PBCC.

Helpful Internet Resources

NET Bible, fonts for NET Bible.

Audio files - mp3 files of the Hebrew text: the files that used to be hosted by Audio Scriptures International.

Orthodox Jewish Bible - translated by Dr. Phillip Goble of Artists for Israel International. All significant Hebrew words (or in the NT the Hebrew words lying behind the Greek ones) are transliterated rather than translated into English, so as to enhance recognition of significant words, themes and ideas. The entire Bible (both Tanakh and Brit Chadasha = New Testament) is available by individual chapter. In addition the Brit Chadasha (New Testament) is also available as a single pdf file.

Online bar/bat mitvah tutor - here you can hear the Hebrew text sung. Offered by World ORT, a Jewish educational site.

Unicode Texts: from Tyndale House (MT, LXX, GNT).

Unicode Fonts:

iTanakh - a gateway to Internet resources for the study of the Tanakh, the Hebrew Bible.