Dictionary of Classical Hebrew: Vol. 1: Aleph

The Dictionary of Classical Hebrew: incorporates all Hebrew from the earliest times to c.200 CE; includes all the data from Ben Sira (Ecclesiasticus), the Dead Sea Scrolls and related texts, and the Hebrew inscriptions down to 200 CE; lists and analyses all occurrences of every Hebrew word (with the exception of a few very common words); gives an English translation of every Hebrew word and phrase cited in the dictionary; provides statistics for the number of occurrences of each word in each of the four corpora of Hebrew; concentrates on the common words rather than the rare ones; indexes all the nouns to their verbal root and all the verbs to their derived nouns; is systematically based on modern linguistic principles; contains a word-frequency index and a list of all the sources for the Hebrew language, including all the manuscripts from Qumran; provides a comprehensive bibliography to scholarly studies on individual Hebrew words and an English-Hebrew index; and is available in electronic format and in a large print edition.

• Format: Hardcover
• Large Print: Yes
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1850752443
• ISBN13: 9781850752448
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
• Length: 1 Pages