A Treatise on the Use of the Tenses in Hebrew and Some Other Syntactical Questions (The Biblical Resource Series)

Rating:
Summary: Re-issue of a Classic
Review: A Treatise on the Use of the Tenses in Hebrew is a classic of Biblical Hebrew scholarship. S.R. Driver synthesized the available 19th century scholarship on Biblical Hebrew, most of it in German, and produced a clear, well organized exposition on the way tenses are expressed in Biblical Hebrew.

The primary focus is on the perfect, imperfect, and waw-consecutives, but also other issues of syntax are covered. W. Randall Garr's lengthy introduction is an excellent tribute to S.R. Driver and updates the Treatise for more recent developments in the study of Biblical Hebrew grammar.

Disclaimer: Randall Garr was my professor of Hebrew and Aramaic in college.

Rating:
Summary: Re-issue of a Classic
Review: A Treatise on the Use of the Tenses in Hebrew is a classic of Biblical Hebrew scholarship. S.R. Driver synthesized the available 19th century scholarship on Biblical Hebrew, most of it in German, and produced a clear, well organized exposition on the way tenses are expressed in Biblical Hebrew.

The primary focus is on the perfect, imperfect, and waw-consecutives, but also other issues of syntax are covered. W. Randall Garr's lengthy introduction is an excellent tribute to S.R. Driver and updates the Treatise for more recent developments in the study of Biblical Hebrew grammar.

Disclaimer: Randall Garr was my professor of Hebrew and Aramaic in college.