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This is an excellent introduction into the internal linguistic history of the Hebrew language. The bibliography is 66 pages long, in rather small print, and is constantly referred to in the text. As a starting point to get an overview of this field of scholarship, it is probably without equal today. As a technical work, presenting a summary of a highly technical field of study, it is astonishingly accessible to the non-specialist. Much more so than, for example, the Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon, in that for citing examples only two alphabets are used: Hebrew, of course, and a Latin based phonetic alphabet defined in a table on page 19. It does not assume a knowledge of the scripts of… Read more
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