Syllabus

·       Meaning of the word קהלת

·       Keyword הבל

·       Keywords עמל, יתרון

·       Self-Presentation Formula in ANE

·       Keywords חכמה, עשה, רעיון רוח, רעות רוח

·       Qere Perpetuum

·       Prepositions ב,ל,כ before word that begins with י

·       Cantillation marks and their syntactic functions

·       Introduction to and Royal Experiment Part 01 (on wealth and pleasure)

·       Difference between silluq and meteg

·       Strong and Weak Dagesh (resource: my flowchart: hebrewthroughthebible.com/summary-weak-and-strong-dagesh/)

·       Resource: Enhanced BDB:

·       Semitic Language Family vs. Indo-European Languages

·       Persian loanword פַּרְדֵּס Qoh 2:5

·       להשקות Qoh 2:6

·       Resource on stages within BH: A. Saenz-Badillos: A History of the Hebrew Language

·       Difference between (shofar) yetiv and mahpach

·       Introduction to the Royal Experiment on Wisdom and Folly

·       The monosyllabic preposition כ before a word that begins with י

·       SBL fonts

·       The fruit of one’s toiling in the eyes of death

·       Aramaic loanword רַעְיֹ֖ון

·       First of a Sevenfold exhortation to eat, drink, and enjoy one’s portion of life’s

·       Language of the Mishna in Qohelet

·       Catalogue of Times: זמן vs. עת

·       Is there an advantage to toil?

How to deal with a difficult Hebrew verse?

·       Discussion on Hebrew-English Interlinear ESV Old Testament: Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS) and English Standard Version (ESV) (English and Hebrew Edition)

·       Qoh 4:8 in the BHS (add image)

·       לוֹ vs. לֹא

·       Cardinal and Ordinal numbers in BH

·       Qoh 4:12 – The connection of the Book of Qohelet to the Epic of Gilgamesh

·       Proverb from the Mesopotamian “Epic of Gilgamesh”

·       Cyclical nature of history and government

·       Qohelet and Social Cycle Theory

·       The importance of keeping vows according to the Bible

·       Negative Jussive and Imperative

·       On oppression and wealth

·       Range of meanings of the word נֶפֶשׁ

·       The word אִלוּ Qoh 6:6

·       Ketiv and Qere in the Masoretic text

·       Marginal notes by the Masoretes in manuscripts

·       Comparative with מִן

·       Review Qere/ Ketiv Qoh 6:10

·       Marginal notes by the Masoretes in the Westminster Leningrad Codex indicating the middle of the book

·       Abbreviations I use in the footnotes

·       Example of onomatopoeia and alliteration in v. 6

·       Inflection of the root נתן (v. 7)

·       Discussion on patience and suffering in Hebrew and English (סבל)

·       V. 21: Discussion of participle מְקַלְלֶֽךָ: Parsing; Why is the dagesh in the second root consonant missing? How can we find the answer to that question in JM? Use of grammar book

·       Alternative meanings of the root מרר based on Arabic

·       What is a wicked person?

·       Metathesis of וְיִֽשְׁתַּכְּח֥וּ in Qoh 8:10 (see JM §17b)

·       Persian loanword פִתְגָ֔ם in Qoh 8:11

·       Abbreviations in the BDB

·       Website mechon-mamre.org/

(Masoretic Text online with and without cantillation marks and English translation)

·       Chiastic Parallelism (v. 14)

·       The Hebrew letter combination טו  for 15 and טז for 16

·       Pausal form of Qal Qatal 3fs in v. 6: אָבָ֑דָה

·       Pronunciation of the letter ח (according to Modern Hebrew Pronunciation)

·       Stress at accented syllables

·       Division of v. 11 into syntactic units with the help of the cantillation marks

Web Services that incorporate the BDB and make it easier to find a word in the lexicon online/ mobile phone application:

·       alhatorah.org –   This dictionary is a computerized version of: F. Brown, S. R. Driver, and C. A. Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (Oxford, 1906). You can search for roots/ words under the tab “Dictionary”

·       biblebento.com/ – watch the video with instructions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaadZhn7w7g&t=1s

·       Enhanced BDB. Click on the first letter of the root in the list at the bottom of the page. It takes you to a complete list of all the roots starting with that consonant

Mobile Phone Application:

·       Look for “Parallel Plus” in your phone’s app store and modify the settings according to your preferences

Pausal Forms in Biblical Hebrew

·       Please locate the folder “Pausal Forms.” The bibliography of the document “Pausal-Form-Notes” contains links to articles that are available online, including the “List of Pausal Forms” that I showed you in class today.

·       You can read up on timbre in JM §6.

·       Exercise: identify the pausal form and suggest a reason for the change based on JM §32: Qoh 6:2; Qoh 8:11, 12; Qoh 9:3 (two occurrences), Qoh 9:9 (3 occurrences); Qoh 9:12.

·       Abbreviation TWOT (Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament)

·       Directions in the Bible: right side vs. left side

·       A re-interpretation of אשרי according to A. Rubin

·       Hapax Legomena

·       More examples of Ketiv and Qere

·       Rare Stems in BH, e.g. Pilpel, see Qoh 10:10

·       Energetic nun

·       Merism ‘north-south’, ‘morning-evening’

·       Carpe Diem theme

·       Conclusion of the Book in Qohelet’s words

·       Three possible readings:

1.     Allegorical

2.     Literal

3.     Eschatological

·       הבל הבלים  Inclusio

Epilogue

·       Academy of the Hebrew Language: Historical Dictionary Project: https://maagarim.hebrew-academy.org.il/Pages/PMain.aspx