Looking for Answers about Zondervan A Reader's Hebrew and Greek Bible?

A must have book:
Basics of Biblical Hebrew, Grammar and workbook
by: Gary D. Pratico and Miles V. Van Pelt by Zondervan
second Edition.

Walter P.

John Dobson Learn Biblical Hebrew.
The book gets you reading simple Hebrew straight away and then introduces grammar stage by stage.
Van Pelt Pratico Hebrew flash cards for vocabulary.
Hebtrew Readers Bible is good once you can recognise hebrew words.

As far as Hebrew, the best place to start is with a software program called Hebrew Tutor. It gives instant feedback, and can hear the sounds of the Hebrew letters. It teaches you how to build words, so instead of memorizing long vocabulary lists such as biking, bike, biker and so on, it teaches you a word such as "bike" and then teaches you all of the prefixes and suffixes such as -er and -ing. this saves A LOT of time! The program is structured around categories of English grammar, so if your english grammar isn't very good, you might want to brush up on you grammar before tackling this program. I went through this program in a month of 10-hour days, but it will probably take you longer.

After you have gone through Hebrew Tutor, a next good step to take is to read Basics of Biblical Hebrew, which reviews some of the stuff in Hebrew Tutor, but specializes in the Hebrew Verb system, which Hebrew Tutor only briefly explains.

After you have gone through these two, it is a good idea to buy a Hebrew Bible. there is a progression in difficulty in reading Hebrew Bibles: Interlinear Hebrew-English Bibles are the easiest. Parallel Hebrew-English Bibles are the next easiest. then comes A Reader's Bible such as Zondervan's "A Reader's Hebrew and Greek Bible." After a reader's Bible, the next step is to get Biblia Sacra.

as far as lexicons, Van Pelt's Vocabulary Guide is a good resource as it serves a bridge between lexicons that arrange their words differently.

When it comes to Greek, I cannot recommend David Alan Black's "Learn to Read New Testament Greek" highly enough! This textbook is designed for those without prior linguistic training and is a truly no-nonsense approach to learning Koine. The content is equivalent to a 1st year Greek course and by the end of the book you'll be able to read and understand the entire Gospel of John on your own. I also found it so encouraging to be reading and writing Greek sentences (albeit very simple ones) by the fourth chapter.

A workbook is also available, but it's not of much use since the publisher seems to only give the answer key to institutions. With the key, it would provide valuable extra practice in applying each lesson.

The entire course is available as DVD lectures taught by Dr. Black himself from his website.