This page lists what we actually have for Edexcel GCSE Biblical Hebrew 1BH0. It is built from the live activities, so it is accurate on the day you read it.
The set texts are on a cycle
Most specifications on this site describe content that stays put. A physics topic does not stop being the topic. Biblical Hebrew is different: Component 2 examines two named passages, and those passages rotate.
The cycle these activities are built for runs 2026 to 2028, and its two texts are Genesis, Joseph's rise to power, and II Kings 4 to 7, the miracles of Elisha.
That matters more than it sounds. A resource built for an earlier cycle looks entirely plausible: the same subject, the same components, the same kind of activity. It is simply about different chapters, and a student revising from it is revising the wrong passage. This is a subject where "is this current?" is a real question rather than a formality.
Six activities that do not expire
Component 1 is the compulsory language paper, and nothing in it depends on which passages Component 2 names. Six of our eleven sit there:
- Vocabulary, building the core word list.
- Verb stems and aspect, the binyanim and the perfect and imperfect.
- The vav consecutive, which is the single construction that most often derails a translation.
- Grammar identification, on roots and forms.
- English into Hebrew composition, within the restricted range the paper asks for.
- Unseen translation, working on a passage the student has not met.
Hebrew grammar will not change when Edexcel picks different chapters. If you want something from this page that will still be right in four years, it is these six.
Five that belong to this cycle
The rest are tied to the current texts: translating Joseph's rise to power, analysing it, translating the miracles of Elisha, analysing that, and the synoptic comparison drawing the two together for Section C.
They are the more useful five right now, because they work on exactly what your students are being examined on. They are also the five that will need rewriting when the cycle turns, and we would rather say so on the page than let a teacher discover it in 2029.
What to check before you set one
Confirm the cycle your department is teaching. If it is the current one, everything here applies. If your scheme of work still names an older pair of passages, use the six language activities and treat the other five as not yours.
The Hebrew is shown in script throughout, with a romanisation beside it in most activities. The two hardest, the Elisha analysis and the synoptic comparison, present the script without it, which suits students who are past needing the support. The same choice, and what it costs, is discussed on the Arabic page.
Using them
The lists below group by classroom use, worked out from what each activity contains. The activities themselves, with the recall goal spelled out, are described in ready-to-run revision activities, and for a small cohort working largely on their own, which is the usual shape of a Biblical Hebrew group, see independent revision students actually keep doing.
To put several in front of one class in order, build a sprint. Everything else we have, by subject and board, is on the revision pages.
What this page does not do
Five of the eleven activities have a known expiry date, the end of the 2026 to 2028 set-text cycle. That is stated rather than hidden, and it is the main thing to weigh before relying on them.
It is one pass, not a bank. Eleven activities over a two-year course, with one activity for the synoptic section, so a student who works through them once has used what is here.
It does not track anything, so there is no completion list to check.