Chris Heard asks a number of excellent questions, not just of those of us who teach introductory classes in biblical literature to university students, but of anyone inclined to read the Bible as a corpus crisscrossed by common themes and recurrent answers to life’s fundamental questions - even if some of the answers come in the form of questions left open with great stubbornness. Here is Chris Heard’s first question: What are the seven most important Old Testament events/characters about which undergraduates (mostly first-year students) should learn in an introductory class? Below the fold, an off-the-cuff answer. I limit myself to three persons of interest.
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- A Basic Bibliography of the Old Testament
Up-to-date OT bibliography by Jean-Louis Ska of the Pontifical Biblical Institute - Audio Edition of the Hebrew Bible
Audio tracks courtesy of Audio Scriptures International. Conveniently divided into chapter files by Gary Martin, founder of the Academy of Ancient Languages. - Hebrew Hub by J. Ted Blakley
excellent online resource for learning ancient Hebrew: click on "website" under "Academic Employment" "St. Mary's College" "Hebrew 2" - Near Eastern Acrostics and Biblical Acrostics (1997) by John F. Brug
Fine introductory essay on acrostics in biblical poetry and elsewhere in ancient Near Eastern literature. - Online Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, Syriac, Latin, Coptic Lexica
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Introduction to and samples of an innovative text edition of the Hebrew Bible. Under the general editorship of Ronald Hendel. - Recent Trends in Psalms Study (1999) by David M. Howard Jr.
A succint overview of recent studies on the Psalms and on ancient Hebrew poetry in general. - The Aleppo Codex website
Under construction, this site aims to make it possible to read the Aleppo Codex online directly from digital photographs. Made possible by the George S. Blumenthal Foundation. - The TanakhML Project
Complete Hebrew Bible online with "verse structure analyzer" and a limited concordance feature. Courtesy of Alain Verboomen. - The Westminster Leningrad Codex
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