Introduction to Biblical Hebrew by Thomas O Lambdin

Introduction to Biblical Hebrew by Thomas O Lambdin

The choice of vocabulary and grammar, in this book, is essentially an introduction to the prose, not the poetical language. Generous use of transliteration is meant to serve three purposes: it enables the reader to perceive Hebrew as a language and not an exercise in decipherment, it removes the obstacles to mastering innumerable pages of abstract phonological and orthographic details, and facilitate the memorization of the paradigms.

'Professor Lambdin spent ten years perfecting this book.. the book was worth ten years waiting for. Systematic, clear with all inessentials pruned, it presents Biblical Hebrew in depth and, of course, is first-rate preparation for anyone who wants to gain more than a superficial knowledge of modern Hebrew ... there simply is no substitute for books like Professor Lambdin's.' -- The Jewish Chronicle

is one of the leading scholars of the Semitic and Egyptian languages. He was appointed as an associate professor of Semitic Languages at Harvard University in 1964. He retired from Harvard in 1983 and is Professor Emeritus. He was admired not only for his research and his tireless teaching, but for the quality of his introductory textbooks on Biblical Hebrew, Coptic, Ge'ez and Gothic language.

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ISBN 13	9780232513691
ISBN 10	0232513694
Title	Introduction to Biblical Hebrew
Author	Thomas O Lambdin
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd
Year published	1973-06-01
Number of pages	384
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