Learning Hebrew
through the Book of Jonah
with Dr. Kipp Davis
2026
Lectures recorded Wednesdays 7:30 PM EST
Register NowLearn how to read Biblical Hebrew in 12 lessons by working through the first chapter of Jonah
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Core Questions:
/What is Contemporary Paganism, and where does it come from?
Is Paganism really an “earth-based religion”?
Do modern-day Druids, witches, Heathens, and occultists really belong under the same umbrella?
Is a “Neo-Pagan” up to something different from a “polytheist”?
What do people working to reconstruct ancestral traditions have in common with those consciously creating new ones?/
Learning Goals
After twelve lessons students will be able to read Jonah 1, as well as to identify over 200 Hebrew words, and read several other texts from the Hebrew Bible.
- ✔ 8 weekly 90-minute sessions
- ✔ University-level learning
- ✔ Class Drive with Readings and Materials
- ✔ Community Forum
- ✔ Weekly Challenges
- ✔ Lifetime Access, including Community
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Class Syllabus
Week 1: Introduction and the Aleph-Bet
Week 2: Learning Hebrew vowels and syllables
Week 3: Nouns
Week 4: Adjectives and nouns in Jonah
Week 5: Introduction to verbs: tenses and stems in Jonah
Week 6: Verbs: imperfect and present tenses in Jonah
Week 7: Verbs: “weak” letters
Week 8: Hebrew narrative and Jonah 1:1–2
Week 9: Nouns with suffixes in Jonah
Week 10: Qal perfect verbs, and Jonah 1:3–5
Week 11: Qal imperfect verbs , and Jonah 1:6–9
Week 12: Reading Jonah 1:10–16
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