A Simplified Guide to Bhs: Critical Apparatus, Masora, Accents, Unusual Letters & Other Markings: Amazon.ca: William R. Scott, Hans Peter Ruger: Books

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This is the newest edition of a very popular manual which is used in classrooms around the world to assist students learning to read the Hebrew Bible.

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W R Scott PhD

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3.0 out of 5 stars a good help for beginners, Jun 11 2004

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This review is from: A Simplified Guide to Bhs: Critical Apparatus, Masora, Accents, Unusual Letters & Other Markings (Paperback)

The "quick and dirty" of the stranger markings of BHS. For those not well-versed in Latin, German, or Aramaic, this little reference is quite handy. Scott does not bother with the history or evolution of the Tiberian Masorah or other markings, but rather simply gives what is necessary to successfully derive meaning from both the Masorah Magna and Masora Parva (but not the Masorah Finalis) as well as some of the accentation and other markings. The most useful feature of this reference work is its size - it's very small and slim, so much so that it may have a propensity to get lost frequently.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A useful tool, Mar 3 2002

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This review is from: A Simplified Guide to Bhs: Critical Apparatus, Masora, Accents, Unusual Letters & Other Markings (Paperback)

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.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Too Much $$ for Getting So Little, Feb 15 2001

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Christopher C. Alsruhe (Baltimore, Maryland United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Simplified Guide to Bhs: Critical Apparatus, Masora, Accents, Unusual Letters & Other Markings (Paperback)

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.

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