How Biblical Languages Work

How Biblical Languages Work

Author: Peter James Silzer

Publisher: Kregel Academic

Published:

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780825495939

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A practical and easy-to-understand guide to the logical structure of both Hebrew and Greek. Ideal for biblical language students.


Linguistics & Biblical Exegesis

Linguistics & Biblical Exegesis

Author: Douglas Mangum

Publisher: Lexham Press

Published: 2017-11-01

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1577997050

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We rarely think about the way languages work because communicating in our native tongue comes so naturally to us. The Bible was written in ancient Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek—languages no modern reader can claim to have a native understanding of. A better understanding of how language works should help us understand the Bible better as we seek to discern the original intent and meaning of each biblical author. In this book, you will get a basic introduction to the field of linguistics—its history, its key concepts, its major schools of thought, and how its insights can shed light on various problems in biblical Hebrew and Greek. Numerous examples illustrate linguistic concepts, and technical terminology is clearly defined. Learn how the study of language can enhance your Bible study.


How Dead Languages Work

How Dead Languages Work

Author: Coulter H. George

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2020-04-05

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 0192594141

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What could Greek poets or Roman historians say in their own language that would be lost in translation? After all, different languages have different personalities, and this is especially clear with languages of the ancient and medieval world. This volume celebrates six such languages - Ancient Greek, Latin, Old English, Sanskrit, Old Irish, and Biblical Hebrew - by first introducing readers to their most distinctive features, then showing how these linguistic traits play out in short excerpts from actual ancient texts. It explores, for instance, how Homer's Greek shows signs of oral composition, how Horace achieves striking poetic effects through interlaced word order in his Latin, and how the poet of Beowulf attains remarkable intensity of expression through the resources of Old English. But these are languages that have shared connections as well. Readers will see how the Sanskrit of the Rig Veda uses words that come from roots found also in English, how turns of phrase characteristic of the Hebrew Bible found their way into English, and that even as unusual a language as Old Irish still builds on common Indo-European linguistic patterns. Very few people have the opportunity to learn these languages, and they can often seem mysterious and inaccessible: drawing on a lucid and engaging writing style and with the aid of clear English translations throughout, this book aims to give all readers, whether scholars, students, or interested novices, an aesthetic appreciation of just how rich and varied they are.


Greek for the Rest of Us

Greek for the Rest of Us

Author: William D. Mounce

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 2007-08-02

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0310282896

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Readers learn how to intelligently use commentaries and reference works that will produce more beneficial Bible study with minimal knowledge of New Testament Greek.


How Language Works

How Language Works

Author: David Crystal

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2007-03-29

Total Pages: 656

ISBN-13: 0141911735

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In this fascinating survey of everything from how sounds become speech to how names work, David Crystal answers every question you might ever have had about the nuts and bolts of language in his usual highly illuminating way. Along the way we find out about eyebrow flashes, whistling languages, how parents teach their children to speak, how politeness travels across languages and how the way we talk show not just how old we are but where we’re from and even who we want to be.


A Biblical Hebrew Reference Grammar

A Biblical Hebrew Reference Grammar

Author: Christo H. van der Merwe

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-11-30

Total Pages: 642

ISBN-13: 0567663345

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This new and fully revised edition of the A Biblical Hebrew Reference Grammar serves as a user-friendly and up-to-date source of information on the morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics of Biblical Hebrew verbs, nouns and other word classes (prepositions, conjunctions, adverbs, modal words, negatives, focus particles, discourse markers, interrogatives and interjections). It also contains one of the most elaborate treatments of Biblical Hebrew word order yet published in a grammar. Compiled by authors with extensive experience in the teaching of Hebrew, the text is rendered both easily accessible and a fascinating examination of the language, building upon the initial publication by incorporating up-to-date developments in the study of the Hebrew Bible. This grammar will be of service both to students who have completed an introductory or intermediate course in Biblical Hebrew, and also to more advanced scholars seeking to take advantage of traditional and recent descriptions of the language that go beyond the basic morphology of Biblical Hebrew.


Do it Yourself Hebrew and Greek

Do it Yourself Hebrew and Greek

Author: Edward W. Goodrick

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 9780310417415

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Edward Goodrick's classic guide introduces the alphabets and basic elements of Greek and Hebrew grammar. With this foundation, the student is encouraged to use some basic language tools, including analytical, lexicons, interlinears, concordances, and commentaries.


Beginning Biblical Hebrew

Beginning Biblical Hebrew

Author: Mark David Futato

Publisher: Eisenbrauns

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 1575060221

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Achieving the right balance of amount of information, style of presentation, and depth of instruction in first-year grammars is no easy task. But Mark Futato has produced a grammar that, after years of testing in a number of institutions, will please many, with its concise, clear, and well-thought-out presentation of Biblical Hebrew. Because the teaching of biblical languages is in decline in many seminaries and universities, Futato takes pains to measure the amount of information presented in each chapter in a way that makes the quantity digestible, without sacrificing information that is important to retain. The book includes exercises that are drawn largely from the Hebrew Bible itself. Fourth printing, 2012.


Calvin and the Biblical Languages

Calvin and the Biblical Languages

Author: John D. Currid

Publisher: Mentor

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781845502126

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If you want your sermons and Bible studies to have greater insight and authority then Calvin is an excellent encourager. John Currid shows how Calvin used knowledge of the Biblical languages to provide richness, depth and accuracy to his understanding of Scripture - and his exposition of it.