Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yocabo Rabinowitz <ugariticscholar AT yahoo.com>]

I have not posed for a while I am a student under Frederic Putnam.  I am 
dredging through Cyrus's Grammar of Ugaritic.  Take my email with a grain of 
salt too.  Can anyone give me any suggestions on Approaches to the language.  
I know hebrew Paleo-Hebrew The Misc.  Cana'anite languages like Moabit 
Elabite etc.  Aramaic and Arabic.  Can anyone give me some hope because the 
wedge thingies look very similar.   Could someone help a poor Semitic 
Scholar.  I want to Get to Akkadian and Sumerian but feel that this is a good 
Gateway language to those.  So please pray for me and 
HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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In regards to you post Tremper Longman has relatively recently published a 
revised  version of His book on Old Testament Commentary Survey.  This 
reviews commentaries in the past like 30 or so years and it bases them on 
three main criteria:  Scholar, Pastor, and Layperson.  You probably could get 
this from Half.com a subsidiary of e-bay for about 5.00  I really like the 
JPS comentary series and the Hermeneia published by Fortress Press a 
subsidiary of Augsburg Press.  I know that the Ugaritic Scholar and Old 
Testament Professor Craige from Word Publishers has a wonderful Commentary 
that related with the text very heavily for Tehelim 1-50.  SOrry I can't help 
you more but I am more a Torah Kind of Guy.  
 
 
                                                            Baruch Haba 
Bashem Yeshua HaMaschiach
 
 
                                                             Yonatan Mosebach

                
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On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 00:43:14 -0700 (PDT) Yocabo Rabinowitz
<ugariticscholar AT yahoo.com> writes:
> I have not posed for a while I am a student under Frederic Putnam.  I 
> am dredging through Cyrus's Grammar of Ugaritic.  Take my email with 
> a grain of salt too.  Can anyone give me any suggestions on 
> Approaches to the language.  I know hebrew Paleo-Hebrew The Misc.  
> Cana'anite languages like Moabit Elabite etc.  Aramaic and Arabic.  
> Can anyone give me some hope because the wedge thingies look very 
> similar.   Could someone help a poor Semitic Scholar.  I want to Get 
> to Akkadian and Sumerian but feel that this is a good Gateway 
> language to those.  So please pray for me and 
>
HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!
> 
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Just be thankful it isn't Akkadian.  I remember going through the sign
list and observing that there were something like 750 different signs
which also stood for different syllables depending on context.  At least
Ugaritic is alphabetic even if it does use those "wedge thingies."  Just
learn your alphabet as you would any language.

george
gfsomsel