The Story of Hebrew Quest, 2/3
In my last post I showed you the Classroom set I built for Hebrew Quest and told you the story of how the program came to be. This is the Construction set where I had way too much fun showing how the language is built, from grammatical structure right down to the subcomponents of each letter. I also promised that I'd tell you what I packed into the 55 hours of Hebrew Quest. As you can see from these summaries, it's basically a big course made up of several smaller courses packed into forty lessons.
Introductory Material (3.5 hours)
Introduction to Hebrew, our learning philosophy, and the story of my Hebrew journey.
Alephbet (10.5 hours)
Read and write the 22 letters with spiritual teachings on subjects such as how each letter points to Messiah.
Why Hebrew? (2 hours)
Seven discussions about the benefits of Hebrew study from the perspectives of discipleship, Bible study, mission, church restoration, the Messianic Jewish movement, worship, and impressing your partner.
Hebrew History (4 hours)
Eight discussions about why Jews and the early Christians believed Hebrew was the original language, the language's tracks from Eber to Israel, Hebrew in Second Temple Judea, early Christianity’s link with Hebrew, Semitic New Testament primacy, famous Christian Hebraists, the story of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda who made Hebrew the language of modern Israel, and the Israeli National Anthem.
Hebrew Names (6 hours)
Devotionally pray the Hebrew names of God and Messiah in the Old and New Testaments, learn the Hebrew names of the books of the Tanach, and discover the Jewish names and backstories of the New Testament.
"I love you" (2 hours)
Words and phrases of love and friendship, straight from the Hebrew Bible.
Functional Grammar (2.5 hours)
Sentence structure, various grammatical terms, and simple and complex verbs.
Tanach Reading (18.5 hours)
Read Creation in Genesis 1, Binding of Isaac in Genesis 22, Ten Commandments in Exodus 20, Shabbat in Exodus 31, Festivals in Leviticus 23, Priestly Blessing in Numbers 6, Tzitzit in Numbers 15, Shema in Deuteronomy 6, David and Goliath in 1 Samuel 17, Elijah and the False Prophets in 1 Kings 18, Psalms 1, 19, 27, 45, and 145, and 100 popular Proverbs!
Hebrew New Testament Reading (5 hours)
Read the Lord’s Prayer in Matthew 6, Jewish blessings for meals, Parables in Matthew 13, the Word in John 1, and the Apocalypse in Revelation 1.
What do you think, was that what you expected or were there any surprises in there? Can you see how I tried to pack it not just with linguistic instruction but with rich spiritual and historical meaning? In the next post I'll show you the Middle Eastern set and tell you what we've done with Hebrew Quest since its inception in 2011. Come to think of it, I compiled a half-hour video of Hebrew Quest highlights you might also enjoy. Watch here: http://holylanguage.com/quest And if you want more information on course content it's at that link too under "Lessons" and "Courses".