Re: Hebrew and tradition

>He also deals brilliantly with the LXX, Secunda, DSS, and even the very
>early epigraphic material. I would recommend both _A History of the Hebrew
>Language_ and _In the Beginning: A Short History of the Hebrew Language_.


Thank you. Actually, one of my disappointments about the book is its
title, which wrongly suggests that it is an abridged version of
Saenz-Badillos's book. (Mr. Daniels, please try to resist the
temptation to say something nasty in response to this.) Some of the
material the two books cover is the same, but I think they also
complement each other nicely.


>And just btw, your original notion that the book is worseless because you
>"opened it at random in a bookstore and found the
>assertion that Ugaritic has a vowel /e/" is just factually in error. He
>never says that.

No, I don't. But that isn't really the point with some people.

-Joel Hoffman
http://www.exc.com/JoelHoffman
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