Which is the best Logos resource, either grammar or syntax, to study the Hiphil denominative, permissive, declarative and causative. Also to study similar items in other stems.
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Thanks so much, M.J. Meanwhile I am reading A Guide to Biblical Hebrew Syntax, the chapter on verbs. I spent a year and a half (and continue) to study the various stems in terms of recognizing them in the Hebrew Bible. Now I am trying to go to the next step, now that I am getting quite good at telling, for the strong verbs at least, which stem they belong to, now I want to take advantage of that by being able to improve my translation skills. This is going to be a long road so any books that might help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much!
You'd find some good info in:
Excellent, thanks!
I haven't thoroughly read the Biblical Hebrew Reference Grammar, but it might also be a good resource to look into as well. There are also two editions in Logos. I linked to the 2nd edition.
Many thanks! I have both of these references and look forward to studying them.
Gregorio, Just some suggestions as you now move ahead with your reading and translating skills. If on your own, I recommend using BH chrestomathies (reading guides on passages that comment on individual words) to help you along the way. Howell, Adam J. Ruth. Guide to Reading Biblical Hebrew. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Academic, 2022. would be a top recent recommendation - with the added pluses of even graphical/visual alignment of the Hebrew clauses/phrases/parallelism and comments based on the accents. [But some might want to put off on any wrestling with accents until a bit more general text-wading.]
So maybe READING JONAH: A GUIDE TO THE HEBREW TEXT by Charles L. Echols .
Or there is the Baylor Handbook on the Hebrew Bible/[formerly Text] series, but it can be a bit uneven. (Maybe start with Holmstedt on Ruth, or Tucker on Jonah, or Holmstedt and Screnock on Esther; then Garrett on Amos, or Eddinger on Malachi. I can't recommend Bandstra on Gen. since it is so heavily and distractingly laden with modern linguistic terminology).
Older chrestomathies often provide a wealth of info and can be downloaded freely online from the Internet Archive or Forgotten Books or Google Books, or via a browser search. [So, just the other day, quite fluent Hebrew readers on a Hermeneutics stack were perplexed by an initial daghesh forte in a non-begadkephat consonant (in Jonah 1:11) - but terms like dagesh forte conjunctivum are used and explained in these older works where such are encountered in texts.]
Exx. are S. P. Tregelles, HEBREW READING LESSONS: (Gen. 1-4 and Prov 8); Baillie, THE FIRST TWELVE PSALMS in H E BR E W; or W.H. Lowe, HEBREW STUDENT'S COMMENTARY ON ZECHARIAH (With EXCURSUS ON SYLLABLE-DIVIDING, METHEG, INITIAL DAGESH, AND SIMAN RAPHEH.) Of course, if you want to feel like you are attending seminary, there are introductory BH grammars with exercises included or even full courses available through Logos. You've already put in a lot of the hard work it seems, now the fun part - enjoying reading Biblical Hebrew!
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