This is the third volume of The Dictionary of Classical Hebrew at present in preparation in the University of Sheffield. Volumes 1 to 3 are available, and Volume 4 will be published in July 1998. The Dictionary of Classical Hebrew, now being widely acclaimed as one of the most valuable additions to the resources for biblical study today, is the first dictionary ever to - incorporate all Hebrew from the earliest times to c. 200 CE - include all the data from Ben Sira (Ecclesiasticus) - include all the data from the Dead Sea ...
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This is the third volume of The Dictionary of Classical Hebrew at present in preparation in the University of Sheffield. Volumes 1 to 3 are available, and Volume 4 will be published in July 1998. The Dictionary of Classical Hebrew, now being widely acclaimed as one of the most valuable additions to the resources for biblical study today, is the first dictionary ever to - incorporate all Hebrew from the earliest times to c. 200 CE - include all the data from Ben Sira (Ecclesiasticus) - include all the data from the Dead Sea Scrolls and related texts - include all the data from the Hebrew inscriptions down to 200 CE - list and analyse all occurrences of every Hebrew word (with the exception of a few very common words) - give an English translation of every Hebrew word and phrase cited in the dictionary - give statistics for the number of occurrences of each word in each of the four corpora of Hebrew - concentrate on the common words rather than the rare ones - be systematically based on modern linguistic principles - contain a word-frequency index - contain a list of all the sources for the Hebrew language, including all the manuscripts from Qumran - provide a comprehensive bibliography to scholarly studies on individual Hebrew words - provide an English-Hebrew index - be available in electronic format and in a large print edition. 'If there is anything sensational in Hebrew Studies today, it is in book form, and its name is the Sheffield Dictionary of Classical Hebrew. Indispensable!' (Bernhard Lang, Internationale Zeitschriftenschau fnr Bibelwissenschaft und Grenzgebiete).
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Add this copy of The Dictionary of Classical Hebrew, Vol. 3: Zayin-Teth to cart. $89.79, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1996 by UNKNO.