Posted by: jeffmooney | April 7, 2008

A Readers Hebrew Bible

For all of you students of Biblical Hebrew, the following product should catch your eye.

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Here is the publishers description.

Following in the footsteps of the popular A Reader’s Greek New Testament, A Reader’s Hebrew Bible includes features that make this a time-saver for studying the Hebrew and Aramaic Old Testament. It comes in Italian Duo-Tone™ binding—attractive, durable, and affordable.

Description:
Ideal for Hebrew students and pastors, A Reader’s Hebrew Bible saves time and effort in studying the Hebrew Old Testament. By eliminating the need to look up definitions, the footnotes allow the user to read the Hebrew and Aramaic text more quickly, focusing on parsing and grammatical issues. A Reader’s Hebrew Bible offers the following features: • Complete text of the Hebrew and Aramaic Bible using the Leningrad Codex (minus critical apparatus) • Shaded Hebrew names that occur less than 100 times • Footnoted definitions of all Hebrew words occurring 100 times or less (twenty-five or less for Aramaic words) • Context-specific glosses • Stem-specific glossed definitions for verb forms (Qal, Piel, Hiphil, and so forth) • Ketib/Qere readings both noted in the text and differentiated appropriately • Marker ribbon

Responses

I use my Reader’s Greek Testament regularly and wished that they would come out with the Hebrew soon. How about both in one? Any time soon?

Nobody is talking if that is in the works. Good hearing from you Bret.

Mooney

I just received my copy of the reader’s Hebrew Bible. It looks great.

Rock on….I gotta get me one of those!

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