HEB 508 Rabbinic Hebrew
Practical Rabbinic Hebrew Through Reading Rabbinic Texts. This course will include a study of the linguistic features (grammar, syntax, idioms) of rabbinic Hebrew, as found in mishnaic and midrashic (tannaitic and amoraic) texts. The approach will be mostly inductive, analyzing the linguistic features of particular texts that will be read in, and prepared for, each class session. Much attention will be paid to text-decoding skills.