Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Jonathan Bailey <jonathan.bailey AT gmx.de>]

Randall,

Can you tell me about Yitzhak Frank's "The Practical Talmud Dictionary"? I 
ran across
it at Amazon.com:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0873065883/qid=949676163/sr=1-2/103-8733158-2489445

Apparently Jastrow's dictionary, though still standard, is in dire need of a 
reprint, if
only to repair a number of typos and bad typesetting. I was wondering if you 
knew
about Frank's dictionary or if you could find out about it for me.

Thanx,




"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 ----------

>mishna dictionaries arn't that many.
>jastrow in english and levy in german will be mentioned by others on the
>list.
>they are quite good but not based on best manuscripts.

>qosovsky has a nice concordance, 4 vol., which would serve as a mishna
>dictionary, but it is all hebrew.

>the hebrew language academy has put together everything on a nice
>electronic data base. grouping all pre-talmudic mishnaic texts together. in
>the mid-80s this was only sold on microfiche. but it is all hebrew.
>likewise, even-shoshan's multivolume work is nice with different periods of
>the whole history marked, but all hebrew. so ...

>braxot
>Randall Buth