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I'd suggest the Hebrew Shalav Series (Hebrew: A Language Course). Weingreen is for people who have a serious head for language. It's hard. Hebrew Shalav is much easier, starting from the alphabet and working you through step-by-step.
 
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Introducing Biblical Hebrew: Allen P. Ross: 9780801021473: Amazon.com: Books

This is the book that I learned from and can highly recommend.

It assumes no prior knowledge of Hebrew or linguistics (though of course any linguistic background/knowledge at all tremendously helps the study of any language), introduces and builds off of topics logically, and includes exercises to solidify learning. Additionally this book also introduces basic syntactical categories as is relevant to the topics at hand, allowing students to be better prepared for later exegetical/syntactical study.

One qualm I often hear is that the exercises do tend to through the weirdest cases of whatever the chapter covered at you (which, in my opinion is good; might as well let students be familiar with the weirdest stuff you'll see). Additionally the exercises occasionally use non-idiomatic Hebrew phrases at you; I don't see this as too much of a problem since beginning Hebrew students primary concern at this point in study should be primarily mastering grammar, morphology, and basic vocabulary.

Additionally this book also concludes with 12 or so chapters which introduces the student to features of the BHS (basic notation in the Masorah and textual apparatus), slightly more advanced issues in Hebrew grammar/syntax and morphology, introduction to poetics, as well as analyses of selected readings from Genesis which solidify what has been learned.
 
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