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Title: A Reader's Hebrew Bible
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Manufacturer: Zondervan Publishing Company
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| A Reader's Hebrew Bible by Zondervan Publishing Company Essential Hebrew Tool for Intermediate Students |
This book is a must own for any intermediate Hebrew student. It removes the excessive crutches and dangers that you often face when using an interlinear bible, but provides enough vocabulary help to encourage the student toward proficiency. It is an ideal resource for Hebrew students striving to read the text, but possessing a limited to moderate Hebrew vocabulary.
The aesthetics of the book are excellent. Like A Reader's Greek Bible before it, the book is made of beautiful Italian Duo-Tone. The Hebrew font for the book is a slightly modified, yet highly readable, version of the BibleWorks Hebrew font. The Hebrew text follows the Westminster Leningrad Codex. When minor differences between WTC and Biblia Hebraica Struttgartensia occur they are marked and can examined in Appendix B.
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The book is a reader, meant to enable students with a working knowledge of Biblical Hebrew but a limited vocabulary to increase their proficiency with the language. To that end the book works marvelously. Every Hebrew word occurring 100 times or less and every Aramaic word occurring 25 times or less is footnoted in a gloss at the bottom of the page. The footnote/gloss system is intuitive and easy to use. The gloss utilizes The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament (HALOT) and The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon (BDB) as its primary lexical sources for the definition of the rare words.Each gloss contains the following pattern: (numerical footnote superscript) HOMONYM#, LEMMA, STEM: HALOT; BDB; ALTERNATE.
Another convenient function is that the massive amount of rare proper nouns (less than 100 and 25 again) are printed in gray but not footnoted. This helps the reader to identify that a strange word is a proper noun, while not clogging down the glosses with the severe number of proper nouns present in the Old Testament.
The RHB also has a convenient glossary containing all Hebrew lemmas with a frequency of 100 times or more in Appendix A. The definitions are again based on BDB and the Appendix is arranged according to the Hebrew alphabet.
The one negative is that the RHB does not contain a text critical apparatus. For this a student will need to consult a source like BHS.
In summary, the RHB is a great resource that should prove valuable for intermediate students in generations to come. It is an excellent companion to its Greek counterpart. |
| A Reader's Hebrew Bible by Zondervan Publishing Company A Treasure! |
This tool is superb. It is large, but not too heavy. I really like the leather binding and gilt edges -- very attractive.
As far as being useful, the only fault is with my knowledge of the vocab. There are enough helps with glosses that an intermediate student is enabled to increase the speed of his reading without becoming lazy. This will not, and is not intended, to replace the standard critical text. This tool is very useful for devotional reading and even carrying to church. I'm very glad to have this tool at my side. |
| A Reader's Hebrew Bible by Zondervan Publishing Company Helpful for reading |
| This Hebrew Bible is one I can take to church and use without worrying about looking up unusual words. You need a couple of semesters of Hebrew first, but then this OT is great for use in class or at church. There is no critical apparatus, but BHS's apparatus is so sparse anyway, and I don't need it most of the time. |
| A Reader's Hebrew Bible by Zondervan Publishing Company A must have resource! |
| My Hebrew instructor just introduced us to this Bible recently and I am very impressed with it. It is especially helpful if one is doing an inductive approach to learning biblical Hebrew. I appreciate not needing to spend so much time trying to find obscure words or proper names and being able to focus more on reading fluency. It is a must have resource! I only wish that it had been available last fall when I started my studies! |
| A Reader's Hebrew Bible by Zondervan Publishing Company very good for the reader |
| You still need a background in hebrew syntax, but this keeps you having to look up every other word in a lexicon, saving a lot of time. Very good Bible. |
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