Dr. Hélène Dallaire
Associate Professor of Old Testament
Denver Seminary
Denver, Colorado

A native French Canadian, Hélène has assisted with the instruction of Hebrew at the Hebrew Union College for the past ten years (until moving to Colorado), and has directed the Hebrew language program on the HUC-Cincinnati campus.  She completed her PhD at HUC in 2002 with an emphasis in Hebrew and Cognate Studies (Comparative Semitics).  She continues to sharpen language instruction skills by taking advantage of (or participating in) workshops such as U. Minnesota's CARLA "Using Technology in the Second Language Classroom," "Developing Proficiency-Based Assessments for the Second Language Classroom" and Hebrew Language Educators' "Heritage Speakers and Language Learning" organized by the NMELRC (National Middle East Language Resource Center) and HUC.

Dr. Lee Fields
Professor of Bible
Roanoke Bible College
Elizabeth City, NC

Lee has taught BH over the past eight years with a variety of textbooks.  Augmenting these he has sought to engage multiple intelligences, aural / oral, dramatic readings. Like others he has found the development-time required for SLA training and innovation to be a steep solo climb—which explains his interest in the collaborative Cohelet Project. Lee comes with a PhD in Hebraic and Cognate Studies at Hebrew Union / Cincinnati, with emphasis in Judaic Studies in the Greco-Roman World (2001).






Dr. Robert Stallman
Professor of Bible and Hebrew
Northwest University
Kirkland, WA  

After sensing the frustration of BH students taught via standard methods, Robert began to experiment with new approaches, leading to a significant rise in outcome performance. He has invested extensive time over the past 10 years to develop PowerPoint / mp3 presentations to enrich students' visual / aural learning.  In addition to teaching at Northwest University, he provides summer intensive Hebrew for Regent College (Vancouver, BC). Robert earned a PhD from Westminster Theological Seminary (1999).






Dr. Peter T. Vogt
Assistant Professor of Old Testament
Bethel Seminary
Saint Paul, MN

Early competence in German (including immersion experience) led Peter to suspect that modern language acquisition methods may help bring BH students to levels of competence and love for the language not achieved by standard approaches he had been employing.  He has taught Old Testament for six years, and Hebrew since 2004. Deuteronomy formed the focus of Peter's PhD degree (University of Gloucestershire, 2003).