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  • From: "Isaac Fried" <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: "K Randolph" <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>, <david.l.steinberg AT rogers.com>
  • Cc: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Blau - Phonology and Morphology of Biblical Hebrew; An Introduction
  • Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 08:19:57 +0200

You may want to look at the book to see the prevailing thoughts of the dominant learned establishment on the Hebrew language, but be prepared to be greatly annoyed by it.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 4:29 AM, David Steinberg <
david.l.steinberg AT rogers.com> wrote:
This book is the only comprehensive diachronic study of Biblical Hebrew
written since the *Bauer and Leander* of the early 1920s. The author is
one of the best Hebraists of the 20th century. Though this book is not
without its weaknesses (see
http://www.houseofdavid.ca/anc_heb_Blau_rev.htm ), the full range of
material covered in it is absolutely fundamental knowledge for anyone who
wishes to make knowledgeable comments on Biblical Hebrew historical
linguistics. If I may say so, it is not a book to be "perused" but to be
ingested and assimilated into one's fundamental knowledge and
understanding. It is easily available to everyone either through purchase
of through inter-library loan from your local library.





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