Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Søren Holst <sh AT teol.ku.dk>]

Hi Rasmus

To the best of my knowledge, the closest to what you seek would be C.H.J. van 
der Merwe, J.A. Naudé and J.H. Kroeze, "A Biblical Hebrew Reference Grammar", 
Sheffield.

It is a much shorter work than Joüon/Muraoka, which would still be my choice 
if I could only take one Hebrew grammar to a desert island. I guess most 
people would recommend B.K. Waltke/M. O'Connor "Biblical Hebrew Syntax" as 
the obvious supplement to Joüon/Muraoka.

If you're looking for something that covers as much ground as Joüon/Muraoka, 
there really isn't anything. You're bound to go on to look for the answers in 
more specialised publications rather than reference grammars. If your 
interest is in syntactical and text linguistic issues, I'd like to put in a 
word for W. Schneider "Grammatik des biblischen Hebräisch: ein Lehrbuch", 
though (recently reissued in much nicer form than the hideous typewritten 
70'es edition).

kol tuv
Søren Holst, University of Copenhagen

> -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
> Fra:  Rasmus Underbjerg Pinnerup [SMTP:pinnerup AT privat.dk]
> Sendt:        6. januar 2004 17:51
> Til:  b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Emne: [b-hebrew] A linguistic introduction to Biblical Hebrew?
> 
> Dear B-Hebrew-members,
> 
> I have for a couple of years studied Biblical Hebrew on and off, mostly
> using the Danish grammar of Johannes Pedersen and (more recently) "A
> Grammar of Biblical Hebrew" by Joüon and Muraoka, which are both
> classical grammars in the way they approach the language.
> 
> I would like, however, to read a more linguistically oriented
> description of the language in the hope that it would answer some
> additional questions. I am thinking something along the lines of
> "Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction" by Antonio Loprieno or
> "Russian: A Linguistic Introduction" by Paul Cubberley.
> 
> Does any such book exist? And if it does, is it recommendable? And what
> would be a good, comprehensive grammar to supplement Joüon-Muraoka?
> 
> NB (for those who might be interested): A new Danish grammar of Biblical
> Hebrew, "Bibelsk-hebraisk grammatik" by Dan Enok Sørensen, has just been
> published.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Rasmus Underbjerg Pinnerup
> 
> 
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