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Title: A Simplified Guide to Bhs: Critical Apparatus, Masora, Accents, Unusual Letters & Other Markings by William R. Scott, Hans Peter Ruger ISBN: 0-941037-35-5 Publisher: D & F Scott Pub Inc Pub. Date: May, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A useful tool
Comment: If one is interested in decoding the minutia around the BHS text, then this book is an invaluable resource to have available.
Upon careful reading, I found the explanation of the accents in this volume to be adequate, especially when applied directly to individual verses in the BHS.
Rating: 1
Summary: Too Much $$ for Getting So Little
Comment: This text has good and bad points. It's translation of terms in the back, the background information on text pointing, and the briefer listing and explanation of the MS accent system is probably less overwhelming than other such references. But in the end, one would purchase this overpriced book with the purpose of learning the uses of the accents in Hebrew pointed text. The book comes up way short.
After giving some specific information on certain common disjunctive accents, it then shows the rest of the disjunctive accents with little or no explanation as to what they are doing in the text. The conjunctive accents are listed separately with no explanation whatsoever as to how they work. And two of the most common text pointings found in the Hebrew Bible are missing! I've never found memorizing symbols without explanations to be of any help in anything.
One should just pay a little more money and buy a reference which gives all the accents and explains their uses. As it is, my copy of this book has told me virtually nothing that I hadn't already learned in the two Hebrew grammars/ workbooks I've used to learn Hebrew.
Invest your money elsewhere than in this book.
Rating: 4
Summary: Serves its purpose
Comment: For those just beginning to work with the Hebrew Bible, this little guide can be very valuable. There is much in BHS that needs explaining, but is missing or difficult to comprehend in the front matter of BHS itself. The material in Scott's book is available in more substantial reference books on the Masorah ("The Masorah of BHS" by Kelley et al.) or textual criticism (see "Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible," by Emmanuel Tov), but these books are considerably larger and more expensive. The latter may be particularly difficult for beginners. As a quick and easy handbook for navigating BHS, Scott's book is very useful.
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Title: Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia by American Bible Society ISBN: 3438052199 Publisher: Fortress Press Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $69.99 |
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Title: The Masorah of Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia: Introduction and Annotated Glossary by Page H. Kelley, Daniel S. Mynatt, Timothy G. Crawford ISBN: 0802843638 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: April, 1998 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Old Testament Textual Criticism: A Practical Introduction by Ellis R. Brotzman, Bruce K. Waltke ISBN: 0801010659 Publisher: Baker Book House Pub. Date: May, 1994 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: A Grammar for Biblical Hebrew by Choon L. Seow ISBN: 0687157862 Publisher: Abingdon Press Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $36.00 |
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Title: A Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament: Based upon the Lexical Work of Ludwig Koehler and Walter Baumgartner by William Lee Holladay ISBN: 0802834132 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: December, 1972 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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