Biblical Hebrew Forum

["John Cook" <jacook AT eisenbrauns.com>]

Dear Charles,

Eisenbrauns is shortly coming out with a grammar of Hebrew by Joshua Blau in 
the Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic series, unders the editorship 
of M. O'Connor. It is a translation/revision/updating of a Modern Hebrew 
version that Blau has been developing and using for years. I have only seen a 
portion of the manuscript, but my understanding is that he makes reference 
fairly frequently to comparative data, especially Arabic. Thus, this book 
will be easily available and reasonably priced.

Best,
___________________
John A. Cook
Editor, Eisenbrauns Inc.
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574-269-2011 ext. 240 (phone)
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> Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 13:51:55 -0500 (CDT)
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> Hi all,
> 
> I have seen some interesting sounding titles by Joshua Blau - but they all 
> seem a bit hard to find and slightly pricey.  In addition most are listed 
> by booksellers in Israel - and I am not proficient in modern Hebrew!
> 
> I have been studying the relationship of Hebrew to Arabic and Aramaic - 
> particularly in terms of common derivation from an original protosemitic 
> language or group of dialects.  I have Gesenius, Jouon/Muraoka, Waltke, 
> vander Merwe, Berstrasser, and Kaltner (Beyond Babel) among others.  
> 
> Would anyone here recommend anything by Blau?
> 
> Additionally are there any other recommended semitics books?  Moscati 
> perhaps?
> 
> Thanks to all.
> 
> Charles Meadows
> Marshall University
> USA