This grammar has grown out of forty years of classroom experience teaching Biblical Hebrew to seminary students/ I have been helped along the way by my own teachers, including Professors John J. Owens, Thomas O. Lambdin, and John Emerton.
My earliest teaching assignment after seminary was in Rio de Janeiro. For a period of seven years I taught Biblical Hebrew in a Brazilian seminary. This experience made me aware of the need for a grammar that was written in simple language, that was as comprehensive as possible, and that contained a wide range of biblically based examples and exercises.
The present work has been prepared with these criteria in mind. If it has any claim to distinction, it is in the design of its examples and exercise. Many hours were spent searching Even - Shoshan`s Hebrew Concordance for biblical passages that best illustrated the grammatical principles being discussed. Insofar as possible, the choice of passage to be included in a given lesson has been limited to those whose vocabulary and grammar have already been described. A student`s ability to handle a lesson`s exercises has not been made dependent on the knowledge of subsequent lessons.
Page Kelley`s Biblical Hebrew grammar is through, full of clear, imaginative, and ample exercises, and eminently readable. The classical grammatical terms are retained, but they are explained with precision. The author has taught Biblical Hebrew to large classes for many years, with the use of this fine grammar, many others can and will, I predict, do the same.

Contents:

Lesson 1
1. The Alphabet
Lesson 2
2. Vowels
3. Half Vowels
Lesson 3
4. Maqqeph
5. Sigh of the Direct Object
6. Dagesh Forte
7. Silent Sheva
Lesson 4
8. Accents
9. Meteg
10. Weak Letters
11. Mappiq
12. Syllables
Lesson 5
13. The Gutturals
14. The Definite Article
Lesson 6
15. Prepositions with Nouns
16. The Vav Conjunction
Lesson 7
17. Nouns: Derivation
18. Nouns: Gender
19. Nouns: Number
Lesson 8
20. Adjectives: Gender and Number
21. Adjectives: Attributive Usage
22. Adjectives: Predicative Usage
Lesson 9
23. Independent Personal Pronouns
24. Demonstrative Pronouns
Lesson 10
25. Nouns: Segholates
26. Nouns: Construct Relationship
Lesson 11
27. Pronominal Suffixes on Prepositions and Particles
28. Pronominal Suffixes on Nouns
Lesson 12
29. Verbs: General Characteristics
30. Verbs: The Qal Perfect of the Strong Verb
31. Verbs: The Meaning of the Perfect
32. Verbs: Word Order in Verbal Sentences
33. Verbs: The Use of the Lexicon
Lesson 13
34. Interrogative Sentences
35. The Numerals
Lesson 14
36. Verbs: The Remaining Stems
37. Verbs: The Remaining Perfects
38. Verbs: Locating and Translating Perfect Forms
Lesson 15
39. Verbs: Qal Imperfect
40. Verbs: The Meaning of the Imperfect
41. Verbs: The Jussive and Cohortative
Lesson 16
42. Verbs: TheImperfects of the Remaining Stems
43. Verbs:Imperfects with Vav Consecutive
44. He-Directive
45. Conjunctive Dagesh Forte
Lesson 17
46. Verbs: Pronominal Suffixes with Perfects
47. Verbs: Pronominal Suffixes withImperfects
Lesson 18
48. Verbs:Qal Imperative
49. Verbs: Nif′al Imperative
50. Verbs: Pi′el Imperative
51. Verbs: Hitpa"el Imperative
52. Verbs: Hif′il Imperative
53. Verbs: Imperatives, Suffix
54. Verbs: Imperatives with the Particle
55. Verbs: Negative Commands or Prohibitions
Lesson 19
56. Verbs: The Infinitive Construct
57. Verbs: The Infinitive Absolute
Lesson 20
58. Verbs: Introduction to Participles
59. Verbs: The Forms of Participles
60. Verbs: The Functions of Participles
61. Verbs: Synopsis of the Strong Verb
Lesson 21
62. Verbs: The Pointing of Vav Conjunction
63. Verbs: Coordinate Relationship
Lesson 22
64. Weak Verbs: Their Classification
65. Characteristics of Gutturals
66. Weak Verbs: Pe Gutturals Verbs
Lesson 23
67. Weak Verbs: Pe ′Alef Verbs
68. Pausal Forms of Heavily Accented Words
Lesson 24
69. Weak Verbs: ′Ayin Gutural Verbs
Lesson 25
70. Weak Verbs:LamedGutural Verbs
Lesson 26
71. Weak Verbs: Lamed ′Alef Verbs
Lesson 27
72. Weak Verbs: Lamed He Verbs
Lesson 28
73. Weak Verbs: Pe Nun Verbs
Lesson 29
74. Weak Verbs:′Ayin Vav/ ′Ayin Yod Verbs
Lesson 30
75. Weak Verbs: Pe Vav/ Pe Yod Verbs
Lesson 31
76. Weak Verbs: Double ′AyinVerbs
Vocabulary
Verb charts
Glossary
Subject index