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  • From: "Don A. Elbourne Jr." <elbourne AT earthlink.net>
  • To: "Jonathan Bailey" <jonathan.bailey AT gmx.de>, "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: Re[4]: S R Driver on Verb Tenses
  • Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 11:13:34 -0600


For reference it is:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0802841600/zacksbookorama

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Bailey [mailto:jonathan.bailey AT gmx.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 9:10 AM
> To: Biblical Hebrew
> Subject: Re[4]: S R Driver on Verb Tenses
>
>
> I see there is now somebody else on the list with as wacky a
> sense of humor as me.
>
> I never seriously considered buying a replacement. If the water
> damage were so
> serious that I could not read the book, AND the books were so
> indespensable that I
> needed a replacement for ready reference, then it would probably
> be too damaged to
> be of use to you. Now I am not saying the book is not useful, but
> it is more the sort of
> thing one reads once, or spends a good bit of time digesting, and
> then puts on the
> shelf. If the book were destroyed, I probably would not have it
> replaced. As it is,
> however, the book only has peripherial wilting. Still quite
> readable. And therefore, I am
> not going to have it replaced. Again, it is not so wonderful that
> my copy must be in
> pristine condition.
>
> In the future, you might let yourself be tipped off by winking
> smileys in my mails, which
> either signify that I have said something offensive and I want my
> reader to take it in
> fun, or that I have just said something ludicrous and would like
> my reader to giggle.
>
> Go ahead and pay the $10 to get it from the used bookstore. Or
> grab the edition with
> Garr's article in any seminary bookstore. The version I got is
> paperback, and I think it
> was less than $20. The ISBN is 0-8028-4160-0 if you want to check
> prices at
> Amazon.com.
>
> Sorry to get your hopes up. I was just joking around, and trying
> to convey that it was a
> good book.
>
>
>
>
> "If there are many wisemen in a city, this means that the city
> will soon fall."
> Babylonian proverb
>
> Jonathan Bailey
> Hochschule für Jüdische Studien
> Heidelberg
> http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Column/9707/index.html
> ---------- Original Message ----------
>
> >Jonathan,
>
> >If you do buy a replacement, would you consider sending me the
> wet one for
> >the cost of postage?
>
> >Jeff
> >kcondit AT attglobal.net
>
> >> the book, as I dropped it in the water while reading in the
> bathtub. ;-)
>
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