Biblical Hebrew: An Analytical Introduction

by Winfred P. Lehmann

Based upon proven pedogogical methods, Biblical An Analytical Introduction provides a non-denominational means of access to the Old Testament in its original language, focusing on passages from the books of Genesis, Exodus, I Samuel, Isaiah, Psalms, and Proverbs. Early in the book, students are immersed in actual Biblical texts, selected for both their value as exemplars of the language and their intrinsic interest. Insightful commentaries help students to understand linguistic points as well as the cultural and historical settings of the texts. The Hebrew passages used are from the authoritative Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, and are used by permission of the United Bible Societies.

387 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1996

About the author

Winfred P. Lehmann, historical linguist, served as the director of the Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas at Austin. Master's degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1938 and his Ph.D. from the same institution in 1941. He began teaching at UT-Austin in 1949 and has been professor emeritus since 1986.
An important contribution was his Proto-Indo-European Syntax, the first and one of the few existing treatments of Proto-Indo-European syntax in a generative framework.

In 1979 he published an updated version of Schleicher's fable together with Ladislav Zgusta.