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Title: Guide to Pronouncing Biblical Names by T.S.K Scott-Craig, Craig Scott T S K ISBN: 0-8192-1292-X Publisher: Morehouse Publishing Pub. Date: January, 1982 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Worst reference book I ever picked up
Comment: This book uses an author-invented system of pronunciation that is poorly explained and even comical. As a pronunciation guide, it is practically worthless unless you already know how to pronounce the word or a word very similar to it. In his introduction, the author tells us that "[p]rinting the names in phonetic symbols is of little assistance to most of us. . . . I have therefore devised a simple system of respelling. Only letters of our normal alphabet are used." He never tells you which pronunciation of each letter of the alphabet to use. He does explain how to say four of what he calls "unfamiliar combinations." A couple of these are downright funny: "EH for A as in CAPE or ABEL . . . KH for CH as in BACH or MOLOCH." How confusing to have "eh" stand for a long A sound, and too bad if you don't already know how to say, "Bach" or "Moloch." The worst of the book is that, if you don't read the introduction, you will not have even these four clues for deciphering the system.
Take the word "Gath" as an example. The book shows the following pronunciation: GATH'
Only because I read the introduction, I know that this is not pronounced with a long A, because presumably if it were, the pronunciation would have been spelled, "GEHTH." Well, folks, there are at least eight different ways to pronounce the letter "A" in American English, and this book rules out one and only one.
This book can only be used as a guide to syllable stress. Don't waste your money.
Rating: 5
Summary: Exactly what I needed
Comment: What a dandy little book! In only 96 pages, it gives both preferred and permissible pronounciations of about three thousand people and place names taken from the NRSV Old Testament, Apocrypha, and New Testament. T.S.K. Scott-Craig uses a clear, easily comprehensible re-spelling system to indicate pronunciation. There are no phonetic symbols, only accent marks that show the stressed syllables. As well as giving each variant of a name alphabetically, he (she?) lists them all together under the name's main entry. At the end there's a nifty 14-page appendix of foreign terms used in English translations of the Bible--"shibboleth," "ephphatha," "selah," and "mammon," for example. This wonderful compact book will slip right into your pocket. It was a terrific find.
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Title: Lector's Guide to Biblical Pronunciations by Joseph M. Staudacher, Michael Dubruiel ISBN: 0879739908 Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: That's Easy for You to Say: Your Quick Guide to Pronouncing Bible Names by W. Murray Severance, Terry, Dr. Eddinger ISBN: 1558196951 Publisher: Broadman & Holman Publishers Pub. Date: August, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Guide for Lectors (Basics of Ministry Series) by Aelred R. Rosser, Liturgy Training Publications ISBN: 1568542380 Publisher: Liturgy Training Publications Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.00 |
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Title: The HarperCollins Bible Pronunciation Guide by William O. Walker ISBN: 0060689625 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 19 August, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: A Manual for Lay Eucharistic Ministers in the Episcopal Church by Beth Wickenberg Ely, Elizabeth W. Ely ISBN: 0819215732 Publisher: Morehouse Publishing Pub. Date: December, 1992 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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