By Charles Halton on Friday, 5 September 2008 at 5:09 pm
Steve Cook has a helpful “lightly annotated” bibliography of resources for 2nd year biblical Hebrew students on is blog, Biblische Ausbildung.
I would add some other observations to his list such as the fact that there is a new edition of the Joüon-Muraoka grammar (however, I still prefer the original Joüon grammar sans the changes made by Muraoka). Also, I don’t much care for the Waltke-O’Connor grammar–not only is it pedagogically cumbersome (I see W’OC as the Wallace Greek Grammar of Hebrew–who needs 20 zillion different meanings of the dative?) but I think it is also methodologically flawed as well since it at times builds theories around corrupted or dubitable readings.
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Comment by Adam McCollum
Made Friday, 5 of September , 2008 at 8:25 pm
As for the Joüon grammar, can you briefly name the main changes Muraoka has made? I only have the French one and have never looked at Muraoka’s English version. (Incidentally, what a unique language situation: A Japanese scholar who was educated in Israel and teaches [or taught] in a Dutch-speaking country translates a French book on biblical Hebrew!)
Comment by Charles Halton
Made Friday, 5 of September , 2008 at 9:57 pm
He makes many changes all throughout the grammar, both additions and subtractions, without noting these alterations. Joüon is more straightforward and I think he has a better presentation of the verbal system. However, you are very right to point out Muraoka’s incredible linguistic achievements and I might add that from what I have heard he is an absolutely wonderful man personally as well.
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Made Saturday, 6 of September , 2008 at 1:09 am
[...] Stephen Cook has provided a nice annotated list of Hebrew resources for students. Check it out here. Charles provides some additional helpful comments. [...]
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Made Saturday, 6 of September , 2008 at 2:12 pm
[...] Resources for Hebrew Students Well, in keeping with the spirit of a new school year starting that permeates the biblioblogosphere at this time of year (I’m not even going to attempt to link to a sampling of posts), I thought I’d add a comment on Stephen Cook’s list of books for 2nd year Hebrew students (HT: Charles Halton). [...]
Comment by Shane Cass
Made Monday, 8 of September , 2008 at 6:53 pm
What the hutpaal?
Comment by Kent
Made Tuesday, 28 of October , 2008 at 12:01 pm
Muraoka lists in detail the changes in the preface to the 2005 edition. See the preview pages here: A Grammar of Biblical Hebrew, rev. ed., by Paul Joüon and T. Muraoka
