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  • From: "Jane Newble" <jnewble AT gmail.com>
  • To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Hebrew Textbooks
  • Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 13:55:34 +0100

When I began, at theological college in Holland, we used Nat-Lettinga (1972)
It is extremely thorough and very good, but for a beginner very confusing too.
The Pro was that it was in Dutch (not like our English Greek Wenham book).
Later, having moved to England, I re-did Hebrew by myself and I used
Weingreen. I found him very orderly and more compact, compared to Lettinga.
Just recently I bought a new book by J.W.Wesselius (in Dutch- Korte Grammatica van het Bijbels Hebreeuws, uitgeverij Coutinho 1998), and his 'short' grammar is very compact, but I find it very helpful, perhaps because it is in my mother-tongue again.....
Jane

----- Original Message ----- From: "JP van de Giessen" <vdgiessen AT solcon.nl>
To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 9:10 AM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Hebrew Textbooks


For your interest:
In Dutch there is only one good book: J.P. Lettinga, Grammatica van het
Bijbels Hebreeuws from Brill (1976, at least this is my edition) and as far I
know it's used on all theological universities.

Pro's: It's in the mother tongue (!!), many examples, lot of background
information and it has a small dictionary.
Contra's: Language is a little bit old-fashioned and it uses many Latin terms.
There is a syllabus from prof. Pieter Siebesma with many explanations of these
Latin terms and some old Dutch words.

There are also some Dutch dictionaries, but I should suggest Peter D.H.
Broers, Woordenboek van het Bijbels Hebreeuws from De Haan Boeken (2007) it is
comparable with Gesenius, but with many new additions.

Most students are advised to buy besides these 2 books, the normal
English/Hebrew grammars and dictionaries. But my experience is learning a
foreign language via an other foreign language is difficult.


Jan Pieter van de Giessen
Blog: http://bijbelaantekeningen.blogspot.com

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