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Flash cards for Jo Ann Hackett’s A Basic Introduction to Biblical Hebrew: new Babel Flashcards deck with audio

We are delighted to announce the release of a deck of flashcards for A Basic Introduction to Biblical Hebrew, by Jo Ann Hackett (Hendrickson, 2010). This deck contains all 400+ words in this deductive grammar of Biblical Hebrew, using the precise lexemes and glosses in the grammar. It also includes chapter, part of speech, and frequency (including verbal stem frequency) information. As is customary for our Babel Flashcards decks, glosses for verbs are shown visually. Derivative decks corresponding to each chapter automatically come with it, and you can easily create your own derivative decks as well.

We are excited to announce that this deck also includes audio! You can hear Jo Ann Hackett and John Huehnergard pronounce the Hebrew lexemes.

Hendrickon Publishing provides the following about Jo Ann Hackett, whose work on Hebrew and cognate languages is well-known:

Jo Ann Hackett, for many years Professor of the Practice of Biblical Hebrew and Northwest Semitic Epigraphy at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, is professor of Middle Eastern Studies at UT–Austin. She is the author of numerous monographs, including The Balaam Text from Tell Deir Alla; and has contributed toThe HarperCollins Study Bible and The Oxford History of the Biblical World. Hackett is esteemed by her students for her ability to train them in both the fundamentals and intricacies of original language usage.

We are offering this deck by itself as well as a bundle consisting of it and our comprehensive deck for Biblical Hebrew (over 8000 words) to help you keep learning Hebrew vocabulary words after you finish working through Hackett’s grammar. You can read a fuller description of Babel Flashcards, or you can proceed to our Product Page to get this deck. Our regular, low-price for the deck is only $14.99 or $21.99 bundled with our comprehensive deck for Biblical Hebrew.

Babel Flashcards welcomed warmly

Babel Flashcards is intended to enable anyone to learn vocabulary for Biblical Hebrew, Biblical Greek, and Biblical Aramaic efficiently and effectively. We think it will save students countless hours and enable others to keep up their languages. Its unparalleled set of distinctive features work toward that end. It is no surprise, then, that its recent release has been met with much fanfare. It has been called “an exciting new flashcard program…which should be helpful to any language student” and “a very helpful program.” On the benefits: “Pastors and students will certainly benefit tremendously from using it” and “the ease with which this package can be utilized makes it extremely useful.” Finally, one customer wrote, “The more I’m using this, the more I like it.” (See these comments and more here, here, here, and here.)

How can you start learning vocabulary using high quality cards, the power and freedom to create complex decks easily, beautiful rendering of UNICODE Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic across operating systems, display of Hebrew and Aramaic glosses catered to the stem-based nature of the Semitic verbal system, and use of the Leitner method of spaced repetition for efficient learning according to the way the brain works? Read more and download the application with sample decks here, or go straight to the Products Page to purchase decks, and start learning today!

The launch of Babel Flashcards was just the beginning. Stay tuned for updates in the near future that will make Babel Flashcards even more helpful to even more people, and remember: updates to the application are always free.