A Penny for your thoughts?

I have many Hebrew resources, can someone help me think through why I may need this resource:

A Biblical Hebrew Reference Grammar, Second Edition

by Van der Merwe, Christo, Naudé, Jacobus A.

T&T Clark 2017

And, I have read the description, so please dont repeat that. I want to know if I have HALOT, and many other works (like Holladay, etc). Is this a valuable resource that I may not already have in kind?

Thanks!

Find more posts tagged with

Comments

Mark Barnes

And, I have read the description, so please dont repeat that. I want to know if I have HALOT, and many other works (like Holladay, etc). Is this a valuable resource that I may not already have in kind?

It's completely different to HALOT and other lexicons. It's a kind of primer/reminder of intermediate Hebrew grammar. Whether you'll find it helpful depends on: (a) whether you're already at an intermediate level with Hebrew grammar, (b) whether you do exegesis in the Hebrew text.

If the answer is "yes" to both questions, and you don't already have something similar, I think you'd find it useful.

Michael S.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/991053#Comment_991053

If ... you don't already have something similar, I think you'd find it useful.

What resources would you say are equivalents?

(A side thought- I wish there was a way to classify resources so you know when you are comparing apples to apples. How am I to know if a resource like this one is not the same type of resource as HALOT? There is tagging, but it doesnt break down enough to tell me what it is. For example, broad category is Hebrew. Secondary level is Grammar. Third level is Lexicon or Dictionary, or whatever other categories that exist.- Does this make sense?)

Thank you Mark, as always, you are very helpful.

Michael S.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/991053#Comment_991053

My Hebrew resources:

Hebrew Syntax (third edition)- Davidson
DBL Hebrew- Swanson
Hebrew Bible Insert- Putnam
LHB
LHI
Building Your Biblical Hebrew Vocabulary- Landes
BHRG
AFAT
GKC
LDHB- Intro and Glossary
LXHEBANLEX
Gesenius' Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon to OT
DSSI
CHAL
BDB and Abridged BDB
BHS/WTS 3.5 Morph
BHS and BHS/WIVU
LA 151
The Parallel Aligned Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Texts of Jewish Scripture- with and without Alexandrinus and Theodotion Variants- by Tov
HAL
A Grammar of Biblical Hebrew: Revised English Edition- Jouon, Muraoka 2006.
The New Strongs Dictionary of Hebrew and Greek Words
HAL Aramaic
A Systematic Glossary to the Anderson-Forbes Analysis of the Hebrew Bible A-F Gloss
Targum Lexicon

Rob Lambert

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/991063#Comment_991063

Michael

I am learning Hebrew and haven't mastered anything; but, I heard Dr. Heiser sing the praises of this book. Since I don't have the first edition I decided to buy this based on his suggestion that it is a standard type reference which will help. He hasn't pointed me in a bad direction yet, so, I am sold based on his recommendation.

Rob

NB.Mick

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/991061#Comment_991061

For example, broad category is Hebrew. Secondary level is Grammar. Third level is Lexicon or Dictionary, or whatever other categories that exist.- Does this make sense?

Actually, to me: no

A lexicon or dictionary is not a subset of grammar. A grammar for me is a book that explains the rules about a language, how words and sentences are built, how grammatical functionalities are used to express things. Basics of Biblical Greek by W. Mounce is one well-known example for a Greek grammar, in my library I find even a grammar for (Shakespearian) English.

Lexicons/dictionaries are a totally different kind of thing, explaining the meaning of words. BDAG would be the comparable lexicon resource for Greek, Merriam-Webster or the Oxford English Dictionary for English.

I wish there was a way to classify resources so you know when you are comparing apples to apples.

Logos already classifies such resources. if you filter your library for type:grammar subject:hebr (note that it's not lang:hebr unless you want grammars written in Hebrew language concerning any language) you will see the books in your library that compare to the resource in question.

HALOT will not come up for this - if you use type:lex subject:hebr the Hebrew lexicons including HALOT in your library will appear.

Mark Barnes

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/991061#Comment_991061

How am I to know if a resource like this one is not the same type of resource as HALOT?

In many that's just general theological training. It's not a specific Logos question (as obviously you could buy these resources in a normal bookshop, and the same questions apply).

It might help you to know that in the context of the title of this book, "grammar" is being used in the third sense of the definitions below:

the study of the way the sentences of a language are constructed; morphology and syntax.
these features or constructions themselves: English grammar.
an account of these features; a set of rules accounting for these constructions:a grammar of English.

A grammar then, is a specific type of book that sets out all the rules for a language. On the list that you provided, you have one of these already: A Grammar of Biblical Hebrew: Revised English Edition. "A Biblical Hebrew Reference Grammar" is a very similar type of book.

Michael S.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/991074#Comment_991074

Thanks everyone for answering and helping.

Michael S.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/991074#Comment_991074

On the list that you provided, you have one of these already: A Grammar of Biblical Hebrew: Revised English Edition. "A Biblical Hebrew Reference Grammar" is a very similar type of book.

I just realized, my number 7 is the first edition of this very book in question!! (Face palm)