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Title: Interlinear NIV Hebrew-English Old Testament, The by John R. III Kohlenberger ISBN: 0-310-40200-X Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 26 November, 1993 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $89.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.7 (10 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Interlinear NIV Hebrew-English Old Testament
Comment: The asking prices for these USED books are way too high. You can buy the WHOLE bible in greek/hebrew english for $100. If you buy just this one volume, you pay $60 for just Genesis thru Deuteronomy ONLY. AND----the original asking price for this one volume was only $17.95. Save your money and buy quality. Get the whole thing somewhere else. Not a good deal.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good Enough for What it is
Comment: I read criticisms in the other reviews, and most are well founded.
Who is the book really for? Hints: Old Testament. NIV. Are you looking for an end all tool to teach Hebrew, to give all the various shades of meaning in the text, the Hebrew root of each word or Strong Concordance Lexicon numbers? OY!!! Slackers!! ;-)
Guys, there's few shortcuts, but this book is for starters. It is a time saver. A novice to Hebrew can quickly get an idea of syntax, some literal definitions, noun (plural, singulars), verbs and often aspect, in short, Biblical Hebrew grammar illustrated, quickly. That's what it is good for. I bought the 4 volume edition when I began studying Hebrew. When it came out in single volume form, I eventually bought two---one for home and one for my office study. It is a good tool---because I know how to use it according to its limitations (and the same most Hebrew to English tools and translations have). You can't expect too much.
Here's the way I use this book. I have a text or construction in question. I grab this book (or similar), AND then start looking at lexicons, and other works and translations. I can tell you, I don't look at the NIV seriously just as I do not look at the KJV for meaning---unless I want to compare the text with Christian manipulations of it.
So if you are not willing to study Hebrew, do not buy this book. If you expect to have "the real" meaning encapsulated in a few little words, dream on. This is a time-saver, not an answer to the mysteries of the universe (written by a non-Christian, non-Western culture in a non-Western language) in a fat little book. Come on. ;-)
Don't use the NIV translation beside the interlinear. Don't take the interlinear's translation as authoritative or inclusive. It is just a stepping stone. By the way, it is an overpriced stepping stone, but so is the BHS Hebrew text it is based upon. Try Dotan's BHL. If you just want quicker and dirtier and understand a little of Hebrew grammar, get the Old Testament Parsing Guides.
And to you "Old Testament" people---it is not old, and quit subjecting our Tanak to your weird theology to call it that. How can you understand a Hebrew Bible with a subconscious cultural disdain for it and its people? In spite of the origins of this book, it is useful if used as meant or sensibly.
Tip: I found this book at a Foozle's (like an overstocked book outlet, like Book Warehouse) for $17.95 a few years ago, and one at a Bible Warehouse for $30---avoid the Bible Warehouse---98% crapola.
And yeah, why isn't there a Jewish sponsored, interlinear Tanak?
Rating: 1
Summary: Can't comprehend the purpose
Comment: I was thrilled that finally an Old Testament Interlinear was readily available for purchase on the mass market and bought this huge edition impetuously without researching the matter much; big mistake. Someone else who reviewed this article before basically hit the nail on the head: the interpreter clearly states in the intro. that his main intent is to copy the NIV in interpreting for the most part. So basically all you're buying is a 60-80 dollar expanded version of the NIV O.T., which is of course one of the most inacurate Bibles on the Market. Admittedly, the one purpose of this book is if one wanted to look up a word from the Hebrew text, the fact that an english interpretation is presented underneath is handy for that purpose. The problem with this facet of using it is that there is no Strong's Numbering anywhere, so for beginners in Hebrew who know not root words, it will be a long go in the BDB or in any other lexicon in locating any definition. The point is, I don't think this publication was so well thought out as to its usefulness as it truly has no great purpose, and I would recommend Jay Green's Interlinear O.T. years before this one, even though it's not perfect, of course it destroys the NIV for accuracy and it has the Strong's Numbering. Thank you for your time:o)
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Title: The New Greek-English Interlinear New Testament (Personal Size) by Robert K. Brown, Philip W. Comfort, J. D. Douglas ISBN: 0842345647 Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers Pub. Date: October, 1993 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Student's Vocabulary for Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic, A by Larry A. Mitchel ISBN: 0310454611 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 04 May, 1984 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: Interlinear NASB-NIV Parallel New Testament in Greek and English, The by Alfred Marshall ISBN: 0310401704 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 29 November, 1993 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: The Interlinear Bible: Hebrew/Greek/English by Jay P., Sr. Green ISBN: 1878442821 Publisher: Sovereign Grace Trust Fund Pub. Date: March, 1997 List Price(USD): $84.99 |
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Title: Interlinear KJV-NIV Parallel New Testament in Greek and English by Alfred Marshall, Zondervan Bible Publishers ISBN: 0310950708 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 11 February, 1991 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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