This book is a house of may mansions: in it are found the Latin of Jerome's Bible and that of canon law, the Latin of the liturgy and of the scholastic philosophers, the Latin of Ambrosian hymns an…
"What not to Write" deals with all those awkward issues - acronyms, ambiguity, American-English, bureaucratese, business English, captions, cliches, grammar, hyphens, jargon, punctuation, quotation…
The primary aim of this book is to provide students of the Hebrew Bible, who may have no other experience of, and possibly very little interest in, learning a foreign language, with a comprehensive…
This book is written primarily for the ministerial student in the United States. It is designed to open to him the lexicon and the grammar and to give him control of the basic vocabulary of the Gre…
This is probably the sharpest consideration of Chomskyan linguistics yet to appear. The author argues that it is important to recognize Chomsky's positive achievement as a definition of the domain …
The Arabic alphabet has a fascinating history, one that is entwined with the development of culture and society in the Middle East. The authors trace the origins of the Arabic alphabet back to Aram…
Throughout its history the Koran has presented problems of interpretation. Some scholars estimate that at least a quarter of the text is obscure in meaning, not only for Western translators but eve…
Noting that advances in the study of the Quran would not be possible without the deliberate study of Arabic vocabulary along the lines of the classical lexica of biblical languages, Jeffery began h…
In this revised edition of a proven resource, a recognized expert in biblical Hebrew provides a readable, linguistically savvy guide to navigating basic grammatical concepts. Designed to complement…
This book traces the history of Ugaritic studies and their impact on the study of the Bible. From the first discoveries in the late 1920s through the end of the millennium, Ugaritic studies have re…