Description
Beginners Biblical Hebrew Part 2 2025Â (Live Online Course)
Beginners Biblical Hebrew Part 2 is designed for students who have completed Beginners Biblical Hebrew Part 1, or for those with prior knowledge of the alphabet and basic vocabulary and grammar. The course continues to expand the student’s knowledge of nouns and verbs, the Hebrew tense structure, and the principles of translation of the biblical text. There are weekly reading and writing exercises as well as fully worked-out homework videos to guide the student towards fluency in word recognition and sentence formation.
Course Outline & Student Outcomes
Beginners Biblical Hebrew Part 2 is the second of an eight-part study series of Biblical Hebrew. It is followed by Beginners Biblical Hebrew Parts 3 and 4 in the first year, and Intermediate Biblical Hebrew Parts 1–4 in a second year of study. The course is designed for people with limited time to spare for learning a new language and features homework assignments and curated biblical texts to enable students to read Biblical Hebrew quickly and confidently.
Students will continue to use the textbook First Hebrew Primer: The Adult Beginner’s Path to Biblical Hebrew to deepen their knowledge of the grammar, vocabulary, sentence formation and translation of Biblical Hebrew.
The weekly classes have the following structure: Review homework from previous week, introduce & discuss new material, read aloud in class, and introduce homework and topics for the next week.
By the end of the course, the student will have gained the following outcomes:
Forming the plural of Nouns & Verbs
Personal Pronouns ‘I’, ‘you’, ‘he’
Common Prepositions: ‘to’, ‘from’, ‘with’, ‘at’
Common Verbs in the Perfect Tense
Definite and Indefinite Direct Object: ‘The son / a son’.
Forming Word Pairs
Course Delivery Description
Date: Each Monday night, 28 April – 30 June 2025.
Time: 7:30 – 9:00 PM (AEST).
Location: Zoom Webinar
Cost: $150 full fare / $120 concession (covers all 10 sessions)
Instructor: Eleanor Miles
Important Notes
Upon purchase, the student will receive access to the course page on Moodle.
Course Textbook will need to be purchased separately: Simon, E., Motzkin, L. and Resnikoff, I. (2005) First Hebrew Primer: The Adult Beginner’s Path to Biblical Hebrew. Third Edition. Berkeley, California: Publishing, EKS.
Course Instructor
The course will be taught by Eleanor Miles. Eleanor holds a BA in Biblical Literature from Oral Roberts University, and is currently working on a Master of Divinity in Messianic Judaism from the Feinberg program at Talbot School of Theology. Eleanor has taught Biblical Hebrew in Australia and the USA for many years. Eleanor works with the ministry of Celebrate Messiah in Canberra, co-pastoring Hineh Yeshua Messianic Congregation.
For questions about course content, please email Eleanor Miles:
For questions relating to registration or payments, please email:
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