She has written many books on Old Testament and Women for theological students. Lastly, she edited and enlarged the last book under the title AM YAHWEH: The Life and Witness of People of God in the Old Testament published by Christian World Imprints (CWI).
The present book is a revised version of the book under the title: Biblical Hebrew: An Introductory Grammar (1999). This is the Senate prescribed Hebrew Grammar book.
Contents
PREFACE
LESSON ONE THE ALPHABET
LESSON TWO THE VOWELS
LESSON THREE SOME TECHNICAL TERMS
LESSON FOUR THE ARTICLE AND CONJUNCTION
1. The Article 2. The Conjuction
LESSON FIVE NOUNS
1. Derivation 2. Gender 3. Segholates 4. Number 5. Prediction of Existence
LESSON SIX PREPOSITIONS
1. Types of Prepositions 2. Pronominal Suffixes to Prepositions
LESSON SEVEN THE ADJECTIVES
1. Predicative Adjective 2. Attributive Adjective
LESSON EIGHT PRONOUNS
1. Personal 2. Demonstrative 3. Relative 4. Interrogative
LESSON NINE THE CONSTRUCT RELATIONSHIP
LESSON TEN PRONOMINAL SUFFIXES
LESSON ELEVEN NUMERALS
LESSON TWELVE VERB
1. Rules 2. Qal Perfect 3. Qal Imperfect 4. Qal Imperative 5. Qal Infinitives 6. Word Order in the Construction of Sentences
LESSON THIRTEEN THE PARTICIPLE
1. Forms of Participle 2. Functions of Participles 2.1 Participles used as adjectives 2.2 Participles used as verbs 2.3 Participles used as nouns 3. Plural of Some Active Participles
LESSON FOURTEEN JUSSIVE AND COHORTATIVE
1. Jussive 2. Cohortative
LESSON FIFTEEN STATIVE VERBS
LESSON SIXTEEN WEAK VERBS
LESSON SEVENTEEN PE WAW AND PE YODH VERBS
1. Distinguishing Characteristics of Pr Yodh Verbs 2. Distinguishing Characteristics of Pe Waw Verbs
LESSON EIGHTEEN NIPHA‘L
LESSON NINETEEN PI‘EL, PU‘AL AND HITHPA‘EL
1. Functions of Pi‘el 2. Functions of Pu‘al 3. Functions of Hithpa‘el
LESSON TWENTY HIPH‘IL AND HOPH‘AL
1. Functions of Hiph‘il 2. Functions of Hoph‘al
LESSON TWENTY ONE 1 WAW CONSECUTIVE AND HE-DIRECTIVE
VERB PARADIGM
SOME WORD LISTS
Rev. Dr. R. L. Hnuni is a Professor of the Old Testament with many years’ teaching experience of both Biblical Hebrew and Old Testament since 1979. She has taught at Aizawl Theological College, Aizawl, Eastern Theological College, Jorhat, and been Founder Principal of Academy of Integrated Christian Studies, Aizawl till 2013. She became the Principal of Calcutta Bible Seminary, Kolkata from 2014 to 2017. She is at present Visiting Professor in Old Testament and Hebrew at AICS.
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