Help for Hebrew students

The Cambridge Introduction to Biblical Hebrew with CD-ROM (Paperback) ~ Brian L. Webster.



Dr Webster is my Hebrew professor at Dallas Seminary and I must say that his book is a valuable addition to the feild. I am NO hebrew scholar but this has been a joy to work through (and a pain in the neck). He honestly tries to make the language easier to learn. If you like the inductive method, that is teaching yourself, then this book is for you. The book comes with the CD-Rom that has all the information you could ever need on it.

You might like the layout but you might hate the layout. Check it out for yourself and get to work on the hebrew bible.

An Oldie but Goodie

The Handbook of Today's Religions by Josh McDowell and Don Stewart.

This book is a little dated and some of the information is incorrect but if you can find it at a used bookstore for a good price it is still worth having. (It is still to high on Amazon's used list price) The articles are excellent introductions to whatever subject they are covering. Think of this more as a reference book than your first line of defense.

Recommended but with the above reservations.

It is also online at http://www.greatcom.org/resources/handbook_of_todays_religions/default.htm

Recently Read

Well just finished the 5 minute Apologist by Dr. Rick Cornish. Published by NavPress it is a small book in size but is still 347 pages.

The book is divided into ten sections:

1. Thinking

2. The Bible

3. Worldviews

4. God

5. Jesus

6. The Resurrection

7. Science

8. Miracles

9. Historic Religions

10. New Religions

Each section is broken down into further subsections. In the Jesus section for example, is seven chapters long dealing with the historic Jesus to Jesus personal claims to deity. The entire section is twenty pages long and most of the chapters are 2-4 pages in length and can be read in a matter of minutes. As the title says about five minutes. For a basic overview of apologetics and the issues involved I have to give a big thumbs up to this book.

If you are new to the task of biblical apologetics then this is a great place to start. I look forward to reading the next to in the series: 5 Minute Theologian and 5 Minute Historian.