Notes on the Hebrew Text of the Books of Samuel: With an Introduction on Hebrew Palaeography and the Ancient Versions, and Facsimiles of Inscriptions (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Driver, S. R.

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ISBN 10 : 1330481704 ISBN 13 : 9781330481707

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2017

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Excerpt from Notes on the Hebrew Text of the Books of Samuel: With an Introduction on Hebrew Palaeography and the Ancient Versions, and Facsimiles of Inscriptions

The present volume is designed as a contribution to the philology and textual criticism of the Old Testament. It may, I hope, be found useful as a sequel to Mr. Spurrell's Notes on Genesis. The Books of Samuel are not so suitable as a reading book for a beginner in Hebrew as some of the other historical books: for though they contain classical examples of a chaste and beautiful Hebrew prose style, they have suffered unusually from transcriptional corruption, and hence raise frequently questions of text, with which a beginner is evidently not in a position to deal. But for one who has made further progress in the language, they afford an admirable field for study: they familiarize him with many of the most characteristic idioms of the language, and at the same time introduce him to the grounds and principles of the textual criticism of the Old Testament. The idiomatic knowledge of Hebrew is best acquired by an attentive and repeated study of the Hebrew prose writers; and I have made it my aim throughout not merely to explain (so far as this was possible) the text of the Books of Samuel, but also to point out and illustrate, as fully as seemed needful, the principal idiomatic usages which they exemplify. In the Introduction I have sought to bring within reach of the student materials - especially relating to Inscriptions - often with difficulty accessible, including matter which, at least to some readers, will probably be new.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1330481704
• ISBN 13: 9781330481707
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 418
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible