THE DICTIONARY OF CLASSICAL HEBREW by David J. A. Clines (Editor) ( 9780826463302 )

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Title:

THE DICTIONARY OF CLASSICAL HEBREW

Volume:

v. 6

By:

David J. A. Clines (Editor)

Format:

Hardback

List price:	£110.00
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ISBN 10:

0826463304

ISBN 13:

9780826463302

Publisher:

BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC

Pub. date:

31 January, 2007

Pages:

856

Description:

"The Dictionary of Classical Hebrew" incorporates all Hebrew from the earliest times to c.200 CE. It includes all the data from Ben Sira (Ecclesiasticus), the Dead Sea Scrolls and related texts, and the Hebrew inscriptions down to 200 CE.

Synopsis:

"The Dictionary of Classical Hebrew": incorporates all Hebrew from the earliest times to c.200 CE; includes all the data from Ben Sira (Ecclesiasticus), the Dead Sea Scrolls and related texts, and the Hebrew inscriptions down to 200 CE; lists and analyses all occurrences of every Hebrew word (with the exception of a few very common words); gives an English translation of every Hebrew word and phrase cited in the dictionary; provides statistics for the number of occurrences of each word in each of the four corpora of Hebrew; concentrates on the common words rather than the rare ones; indexes all the nouns to their verbal "root" and all the verbs to their "derived" nouns; is systematically based on modern linguistic principles; contains a word-frequency index and a list of all the sources for the Hebrew language, including all the manuscripts from Qumran; provides a comprehensive bibliography to scholarly studies on individual Hebrew words and an English-Hebrew index; and is available in electronic format and in a large print edition.

Illustrations:

bibliography, index

Publication:

Imprint:

Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.

Returns:

Non-returnable

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