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Beyond Babel: A Handbook for Biblical Hebrew and Related Languages. . - Briefly Noted - book review
Currents in Theology and Mission, June, 2003 by Ralph W. Klein
Beyond Babel: A Handbook for Biblical Hebrew and Related Languages. Edited by John Kaltner and Steven L. McKenzie (Society of Biblical Literature, $29.95). The languages treated here--Akkadian, Ammonite, Edomite, Moabite, Arabic, Aramaic, Egyptian, Hebrew (biblical and post-biblical), Hittite, Phoenician, and Ugaritic--are the ones considered most significant for the study of the Old Testament.
Most chapters in the book have a three-part outline: an overview of the language itself; its significance for the study of the Bible; and ancient and modern resources for the study of the language and the literature. The eleven authors are highly competent in the language they discuss and present their material in an accessible way. Readers will learn much about these languages and about the major extrabiblical documents that are thought to be relevant to study of the Old Testament. The only unfortunate omission is Sumerian.
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