Suggestions for Reading the Hebrew Bible (from Amazon.com guide)

How to retain more of the Tanakh you read
Suggestions from my professor, Dr. Joel Hunt, from his "Hebrew Reading" course:

A. Always read the Bible out loud in Hebrew! Read with a group as well as alone.

B. Using either
Binney & Smith Crayola(R) Colored Pencils, Set Of 12 Colors
or Sanford Colorific Colored Pencils, Set Of 12 Colors,
highlight words that aren't "finite verbs," making light, filled rectangles.

Red: Deity.
Green: Individuals.
Light Green: Groups.
Brown: Places.
Blue: Animals.
Orange: First word of a question clause; underline the clause.
Yellow: Numbers.
Other Colors: Other categories, repeated words, etc.

Verbs in the first, second or third "person" are "finite;" don't color them.

Participles and infinitives don't show "person," so they aren't "finite." Most participles and infinitives in the Hebrew Bible actually work like nouns, pronouns or adjectives, so color them according to whom or what they represent.

Sacrilege? No. You aren't writing on the page.
Not trying to think in Hebrew would be the sacrilege!

C. Write verse-by-verse reference cards.
Write across the shorter dimension of an unlined card such as Oxford(R) White Recycled Index Cards, Unruled, 3" x 5", Pack Of 500, holding the card the "tall" way.
Put the book's name on both faces.
On one face, put the fully-parsed new/forgotten words and idioms, with their chapter and verse number(s).
Never, ever write whole clauses in English on these cards!
On the other face, write any new/forgotten grammar points.
Some cards will work for more than one verse,
while some verses will need more than one card.
Later, you can file them in Globe-Weis(R) Index Card Tray, 3in. x 5in., Green.

D. Prof. Hunt's three-step reading process:

1. Read a verse out loud, usually "half" at a time (to the 'atnach, then to the end). Do the colors and card entries. Read it out loud again. Enjoy. Put it into spoken English. Do not write it in English. Go on to the next verse.

2. After working through a passage, read the whole thing out loud again with help from your colored words and note cards. Enjoy. Put it into spoken English. Do not write it in English.

3. Meet with your reading group. Take turns reading through the prepared passage, enjoying it and putting it into spoken English. Do not write it in English. Do some unprepared "sight-reading" as a group, too.

E. Of course, Prof. Hunt does require written translations in papers and exams, but those are evaluation tools more than learning tools.
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