Reddit mentions of Prayerbook Hebrew the Easy Way

I am just a lay subscriber, but I can share a prior comment with what I've been doing:

Because I wanted a firm foundation, I spent a ridiculous amount of time on phonics, which starts, of course, with memorizing the letters. I used this Memrise course and moved onto the Drops app. Once I could recognize the letters, I moved onto the book Teach Yourself to Read Hebrew. It doesn't cover any vocabulary, but instead teaches how to read syllable by syllable.

I don't remember how I discovered this, but something I thought was super useful was this flashcard phonics app. It starts out with a single letter - knocking you back if you take too long or answer incorrectly - so I might give it a spin and see if you can't skip all the previous steps!

Once I felt I could read the words on the page - even if I didn't know what they meant - I started out with The First Hebrew Primer. It came highly recommended in this sub, but found it was just too intense for this casual student with only 15 minutes a day. I opted instead to go through Prayerbook Hebrew first, which is by the same publisher and so has the same basic format, but is a lot friendlier for a casual study. For example, where the Primer goes through the ins and outs of a particular point of grammar and drills the rules for when/how/why to use it, the Prayerbook says "we won't expect you to know how to use it, we just want you to recognize it when you see it."

What I didn't use:

Duolingo only has modern Hebrew, which now that I've hung out in r/hebrew a little bit, I'm thinking wouldn't have been such a bad place to start. (Maybe one of the fluent speakers here can weigh in on whether to start modern or biblical first!) Also, Duolingo presumes that you already know how to sight read - and is actually what directed me to that Memrise app - so make sure to go through the phonics first if you go that route.

Mango languages has biblical Hebrew, but it starts out with Genesis 1:1 and goes line by line. It does introduce vocabulary and points of grammar along the way, but learning "the earth was formless and void" in Lesson 2 just didn't feel right :)

For Hebrew in the Bible, I use:

http://biblehub.com/

This is a great tool. But you need to learn basic Hebrew to make sense of the Hebrew here. I used this book for that:

https://www.amazon.com/Prayerbook-Hebrew-Easy-Joseph-Anderson/dp/0939144328/

But you need to learn the alphabet first.

Joshua 1:16-18 - Whether it was the people (inspired by Joshua) or Joshua himself, the point is that this is the rule of tyrant. Nothing like this was said of Moses.

Deuteronomy 9:2-3 says to drive out the Anakim, not to exterminate them which is what Joshua did.

Deuteronomy 7:22-25 doesn't seem to have anything to do with Achan. The gold and silver mentioned here is on idols, and Achan took bars and coins.

I don't remember the story of David replacing Joab with Amasa, but the point is that David had options. Israel was an established country with decent people. Moses started with a bunch of degenerate slaves. Moses had no good options. So Moses stuck with Joshua. Caleb may have been a good guy, but there is no indication that he had leadership ability. Joshua led military campaigns while Moses was alive.

Judges 8:24-27 - Yes Gideon did this intentionally. Israel never lost its worship for idols. Judges 8:27 makes clear that Gideon was wrong.

I guess my question for you is what kind of Christianity do you follow? These days I feel like I am living on the planet of the apes with almost no intelligent life. So if there is some branch of Christianity besides the Anabaptists that isn't completely corrupt and stupid, I would like to know about it.