A list of Book/Author Suggestions for Hebrew Bible, Hebrew, and Akkadian
I've mentioned these before, but they bear mentioning again.
I'd really like to see the works of
Robert Alter, such as
- Art of Biblical Narrative
- Art of Biblical Poetry
- The Literary Guide to the Bible
- his translations and commentary, almost the whole Hebrew Bible now.
James Kugel
as well as
- Readings In Biblical Hebrew: an Intermediate Textbook
- which would work really well in Logos (has lots of references to reference works already in Logos)
- and is Yale press, who does the ABD and Anchor Bible Commentary. Previews here.
- Akkadian Lexical Companion for Biblical Hebrew Etymological, Semantic and Idiomatic Equivalence With Supplement on Biblical Aramaic
- the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary (which is available for free in PDF)
- Friedman's Who Wrote the Bible and color-coded translation/commentary, The Bible With Sources Revealed
- Civilizations of the Ancient Near East
- Hebrew Law in Biblical Times
- Everyday Law in Biblical Israel
And of course, a continuing plug for Carta resources.
"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected."- G.K. Chesterton
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Nice list, Ben. I especially would order most of the 'as well as' group.
The Akkadian companion and Chicago Assyrian volumes would SURE be great. I'm no smarty, but I run into Akkadian comparisons quite a bit. I'll probably get lectured by George on 'etymological' equivalance.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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I would buy all of these if they came to Logos. I just created a suggestion post listing all the Carta resources I would like to see in Logos. It is quite long. I could buy some Carta books in Accordance, but I'd prefer to buy them in Logos.
I would love to see a Robert Alter collection, featuring all of his books.
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I want the books from Robert Alter.
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Yes, the Akkadian stuff would be great, would be a leg up over competitors, and thereby attract a new scholarly contingent.
Edit: I found lots of links to the CAD in The Amarna Letters, the Anchor Bible Dictionary, Pritchard's ANET, Context of Scripture, theJPS Torah Commentary volumes... all over the place. Seems like it would be a useful addition, if the licensing and price could be set right.
"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected."- G.K. Chesterton
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I was using some of these today, and wanted to bump the list.
"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected."- G.K. Chesterton
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Now bumping the list because I would also like to see the Yale language series in Logos.
Sarah Blake LaRose
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This is not part of the Zondervan collection, and I would like to see it--I wonder if it is comparable to the Greek one by Sakae Kubo.
T. A. Armstrong, D. L. Busby and C. F. Carr, A Reader's Hebrew-English Lexicon of the Old Testament. (Zondervan, 1989).
Sarah Blake LaRose
Lenovo Thinkpad, 8GB RAM, 1.50GB quad core processor, Win 7, Logos 6
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I could buy more, but atleast I would buy the akkadian stuff, readings in hebrew and first three books by Alter.
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I'm quite excited for TDOT. So it's time to get these!! Plugging again.
"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected."- G.K. Chesterton
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It's been about a year. Time to bump these again and stir up some interest.
"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected."- G.K. Chesterton
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And wow! Akkadian Lexical Companion for Biblical Hebrew Etymological, Semantic and Idiomatic Equivalence With Supplement on Biblical Aramaic must be out of print, because the price has skyrocketed!
"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected."- G.K. Chesterton
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My recurring plug for the Akkadian lexical matierals. Also, the Akkadian Lexical Companion for Biblical HEbrew is now relatively cheap, $28 hardcover from Amazon. They must have hit another printing.
"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected."- G.K. Chesterton
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I'm screaming at myself, "FOCUS! Focus on what you do well, and not on what you'd like to claim you can do well somewhere in the future."
Still, I'd probably consider getting the Akkadian Lexical Companion if it were available. [:P]
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Bump.
"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected."- G.K. Chesterton
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Bump
"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected."- G.K. Chesterton
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Five years on, and none of these. I'd still love to see the CAD and the Akkadian Lexical Companion.
"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected."- G.K. Chesterton
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[Y] for the Akkadian Lexical Companion.
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Bump on these. Robert Alter is "planned" at this point, whatever that means. But I was reminded today of Kugel and these others.
"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected."- G.K. Chesterton
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Bumping a year later. Kugel's been requested for at least 8 years...
"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected."- G.K. Chesterton
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