Basics of Biblical Aramaic Video Lectures

by Miles Van Pelt

Publisher:

Zondervan Academic

, 2015

Overview

Basics of Biblical Aramaic Video Lectures provides 22 easy-to-follow lessons introducing the most neglected biblical language. Integrated for use with one of today’s bestselling Aramaic textbooks, it is an ideal resource for formal Aramaic language students wanting additional help in their learning; for instructors wanting to devote classroom time to drills and exercises, giving them a lecture tool their students can watch on their own time; and for armchair students of biblical Aramaic with an interest in learning on their own.

Designed for students who already have a working knowledge of Hebrew, each lecture is approximately half an hour and is taught by experienced teacher Miles V. Van Pelt using a logical and simple method of learning biblical Aramaic. Focused on the structural pattern of biblical Aramaic over rote memorization, Van Pelt’s lectures will give students in formal language classes and self-learners alike the basic understanding they need to begin studying the 269 Aramaic verses in the Old Testament and Aramaic in other ancient texts.

Key Features

• Focuses on the structural pattern of biblical Aramaic
• Uses a logical and simple method of learning biblical Aramaic
• Designed for students who already have a working knowledge of Hebrew

Contents

• Alphabet (15 min)
• Vowels (21 min)
• Syllabification (30 min)
• Nouns: Absolute State (23 min)
• Nouns: Determined State (14 min)
• Nouns: Construct State (21 min)
• Conjunctions and Prepositions (17 min)
• Pronominal Suffixes (17 min)
• Pronouns (23 min)
• Adjectives and Numbers (14 min)
• Adverbs and Participles (11 min)
• Introduction to Aramaic Verbs (14 min)
• Peal Perfect (29 min)
• Peal Imperfect (28 min)
• Peal Imperative (11 min)
• Peal Infinitive Construct (18 min)
• Peal Participle (28 min)
• Peil, Hithpeel, Ithpeel, Stems (21 min)
• Pael Stem (19 min)
• Hithpaal, Ithpaal (12 min)
• Haphel Stem (15 min)
• Aphel, Shaphel, Hophal (16 min)

Product Details

• Title: Basics of Biblical Aramaic Video Lectures
• Author: Miles Van Pelt
• Publisher: Zondervan
• Publication Date: 2014
• Resource Type: Video
• Topic: Aramaic

About Miles Van Pelt

Dr. Miles Van Pelt is Alan Belcher Professor of Old Testament and Biblical Languages and academic dean for the Jackson campus of Reformed Theological Seminary. He has taught at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts and at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts.

He has a deep commitment to and passion for teaching students the Bible in its original languages. To that end, Miles is the coauthor of Basics of Biblical Hebrew: Grammar, Basics of Biblical Hebrew: Workbook, The Vocabulary Guide to Biblical Hebrew, Graded Reader of Biblical Hebrew, and Charts of Biblical Hebrew.

Van Pelt has also contributed to The New International Dictionary of Old Testament Theology and Exegesis and to the Eerdman’s Bible Dictionary and served as the Old Testament editor for Zondervan’s expository dictionary of biblical words, Mounce’s Complete Expository Dictionary of Old & New Testament Words. At the RTS campus in Jackson, he teaches Hebrew, historical books, prophetic literature, Old Testament biblical theology, and even Greek. He and his wife, Laurie, have four children.