Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Maurice A. O'Sullivan" <mauros AT iol.ie>]

Apart from the "heavyweight" reference grammars such as Gesenius, or the 
2-volume :
Jouon, Paul, and Takamitsu Muraoka. A Grammar of Biblical Hebrew. Vol. 
14/I. Orthography and Phonetics: Morphology.
Vol. 14/II. Syntax: Paradigms and Indices. .
Subsidia Biblica. Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute 1991.

I would suggest:

A Biblical Hebrew Reference Grammar
Christo H.J. van der Merwe
Jackie A. Naudé
Jan H. Kroeze
Biblical Languages 3: Hebrew

which is available in printed form from Sheffield Academic Press, or from 
Logos in a most useful electronic form ( see www.logos.com )

At 15:28 14/12/01, Christian Hoffmann wrote:

> Dear haverim,
>
> Not so long we discussed the choice of qatal as the paradigmatic stem for
> Hebrew verb grammar. We went through all the possible combinations, sorting
> out unwanted consonants, like
>
> aleph, he, waw, khet, yod, ayin, resh: weak letters -> weak stems, rarely
> regular
> beth, kaph, pe: change of hardness with veth, khaph, fe
> mem: is also a prefix
> nun, taw: occur in weak stems
>
> As a result, letters like
>
> gimel, dalet, zayin, tet, lamed, samekh, tsade, qoph, sin, shin.
>
> will remain. qatal is one possible combination. I don't remember which else
> seemed attractive.
>
> Does anybody know a written source for this kind of reasoning?
>
> Shalom
> --christian
>
>
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Maurice A. O'Sullivan  [ Bray, Ireland ]
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