Zeh Lo Nora: Reference Book for Students of Hebrew

ISBN-13: 9781620324950 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 410 str.

Rutie Adler

Opis

Description: This diary is a fine-grained, often daily, theological reflection on the author's final ponderings on his ordeal with a serious illness, a concluding sabbatical, a last year of teaching, a culminating lecture, presiding at Eucharist, and summarial notes about ""what God is doing in the world."" Amid all these meanderings it holds the lectionary of the biblical and liturgical calendar in one hand and the newspaper in the other (K. Barth). Events during this time span were transformative and world shaking--and found resonance in my personal drama. One finds art and music, faith and politics. The reader will easily slip one's own story into this narrative. My purpose is precisely this--to offer symbiotic and symbolic story on life and its meaning. About the Contributor(s): Kenneth L. Vaux, Professor of Theology and Ethics at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, is a member of the Graduate Faculty at Northwestern University and Fellow of the Centre for Advanced Religious and Theological Studies at Cambridge. He is the author of America in God's World (2009), Ethics and the War on Terrorism (2002), Biomedical Ethics (1974), Jew, Christian, Muslim (2003), and An Abrahamic Theology for Science (2007).

Description:Ze Lo Nora was designed with two different readerships in mind--newcomers and old pros. Beginning and intermediate Hebrew language students will find in Ze Lo Nora clear, reliable explanations and memorable examples of all points of Hebrew grammar. It is an indispensable supplement to any Hebrew textbook. Rules and comments on style and use are presented in a simple, informative, and non-dogmatic manner, with examples from the language as it is actually spoken. In addition to the usual staple of verbs, nouns, and adjectives, the book covers ""little items"" such as pronouns, prepositions, prefixes, and discourse ties and ""big ones"" such as clauses, and sentences. It also touches upon a variety of ""how to"" questions of use.Students and readers more conversant with Hebrew will find interspersed in the text, in clearly demarcated sections, more complex structures and structural explanations, more nuanced discussions of linguistic issues, instructive historical notes and sample texts of diverse genres.Each unit in the book is self-contained, making it possible for the user or reader to pick and choose a topic independent of place and sequence of the book. All simple examples are voweled and translated whereas the more advanced ones are not. About the Contributor(s):Rutie Adler is Lecturer and Coordinator of the Hebrew Language Program at the University of California at Berkeley. She has a MA in Linguistics from UC Berkeley, and an MA in TESOL from San Francisco State University. She has taught biblical, post-biblical, and modern Israeli Hebrew including Israeli literature and poetry at all proficiency levels. She has extensive experience in training Hebrew instructors and has also developed numerous teaching materials and software; her most recent creation is the UC Berkeley Hebrew site: ivrit.berkeley.edu.