Jan 07 2009
John Hobbins provides an astute post concerning the connection between reading the texts about God/the gods and belief in God. (It would be interesting, at least from a personal standpoint, to have several individuals listed in the post discuss how have their studies in the Semitic texts affected their faith. I am reminded of a fairly recent article in BAR in which Bill Dever et al responded to a similar question.)
Jan 04 2009
Syriac Tools
Texts & Collections:
Bensly, R. ed. The Epistles of S. Clement to the Corinthians in Syriac. Cambridge: University Press, 1899. (pdf)
Bensly, R. ed. The Fourth Book of Maccabees and Kindred Documents in Syriac. Cambridge: University Press, 1895. (pdf)
Budge, E. The Laughable Stories Collected by Mar Gregory John Bar Hebraeus. London: Luzac, 1897. (pdf)
Burge, E. The History of Alexander the Great being the Syriac Version of the Pseudo-Callisthenes. Cambridge: University Press, 1889. (pdf)
Cureton, W. Ancient Syriac Documents Relative to the Earliest Establishment of Christianity in Edessa and the Neighbouring Countries. London: Williams and Norgate, 1864. (pdf)
Cureton, W. History of the Martyrs in Palestine. London: Williams and Norgate, 1861. (pdf)
Cureton, W. Remains of a Very Antient Recension of the Four Gospels in Syriac. London: Murray, 1858. (pdf)
Eusebius of Caesarea. The Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius in Syriac. Cambridge: University Press, 1898. (pdf)
Gibson, M. The Commentaries of Isho’dad of Merv, Bishop of Hadatha. Vol. 1. Cambridge: University Press, 1911. (pdf)
Gibson, M. The Commentaries of Isho’dad of Merv, Bishop of Hadatha. Vol. 2. Cambridge: University Press, 1911. (pdf)
Gibson, M. The Commentaries of Isho’dad of Merv, Bishop of Hadatha. Vol. 3. Cambridge: University Press, 1911. (pdf)
Gibson, M. The Didascalia Apostolorum in Syriac. London: Clay, 1903. (pdf)
Gwynn, J. The Apocalypse of St. John in a Syriac version hitherto unknown. Dublin: Hodges, 1897. (pdf)
Hücker, A. Die Syrische Jakobosanaphora nach der Rezension des Ja'qôb(h) von Edessa. Münster: Westf, 1923. (pdf)
Lee, S. On the Theophania, or Divine Manifestation of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. London: Society for the Publication of Oriental Texts, 1842. (pdf)
Lewis, A. A Palestinian Syriac Lectionary. London: Clay, 1897. (pdf)
Lewis, A. The Old Syriac Gospels or Evangelion da-Mepharresh. London: Williams and Norgate, 1910. (pdf)
Mingana, A. Woodbrooke Studies: Christian Documents in Syriac, Arabic, and Garshuni. Vol. 1. Cambridge: Heffer, 1927. (pdf)
Mingana, A. Woodbrooke Studies: Christian Documents in Syriac, Arabic, and Garshuni. Vol. 2. Cambridge: Heffer, 1927. (pdf)
Mingana, A. Woodbrooke Studies: Christian Documents in Syriac, Arabic, and Garshuni. Vol. 3. Cambridge: Heffer, 1927. (pdf)
Phillips, G. A Letter by Mar Jacob, Bishop of Edessa. London: Williams and Norgate, 1869. (pdf)
Robinson, J. The Apology of Aristides. Vol. 1. 2nd ed. Cambridge: University Press, 1893. (pdf)
Roediger, E. Chrestomathia syriaca quam glossario et tabulis grammaticism. Sazonum, 1892. (pdf)
Sachau, E. Syrische Rechtsbücher. Vol. 1. Berlin: Reimer, 1907. (pdf)
Sachau, E. Syrische Rechtsbücher. Vol. 2. Berlin: Reimer, 1907. (pdf)
Scott-Moncrieff, P. The Book of Consolations; or, The Pastoral Epistles of Mar Isho-yahbh of Kuphlana in Adiabene. London: Luzac, 1904. (pdf)
Smith, P. Extracts from the Ecclesiastical history of John Bishop of Ephesus. Leiden: Brill, 1909. (pdf)
Wensinck, A. Legends of Eastern Saints: Chiefly from Syriac Sources. Vol. 1. The Story of Archelides. Leiden: Brill, 1911. (pdf)
Willis, B. The Book of Governors: the Historia Monastica of Thomas, Bishop of Marga. Vol. 1. London: Trench, 1893. (pdf)
Willis, B. The Book of Governors: the Historia Monastica of Thomas, Bishop of Marga. Vol. 2. London: Trench, 1893. (pdf)
Wright, W. The Book of Jonah in Four Oriental Versions, namely Chaldee, Syriac, Aethiopic, and Arabic. London: Williams and Norgate, 1857. (pdf)
Wright, W and McLean, N. The Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius in Syriac. Cambridge: University Press, 1898. (pdf)
Translations:
Benni, C. The Tradition of the Syriac Church of Antioch. London: Burns and Oates, 1871. (pdf)
Brooks, E. The Sixth Book of the Selected Letters of Severus Patriarch of Antioch. Vol 2. London: Williams and Norgate, 1904. (pdf)
Charles, R. The Apocalypse of Baruch. London: Black, 1896. (pdf)
Cureton, W. Vindiciae Ignatianae; or, The Genuine Writings of St. Ignatius. London: Rivingtons, 1846. (pdf)
Gollancz, H. A Selection of Charms from Syriac Manuscripts. London (pdf)
Hamilton, F. and Brooks, E. The Syriac Chronicle Known as that of Zachariah of Mitylene. London: Methuen, 1899. (pdf)
Morris, J. Select Works of S. Ephrem the Syrian. Oxford: Parker, 1847. (pdf)
Perry, S. The Second Synod of Ephesus. Dartford: Kent, 1881. (pdf)
Smith, P. Commentary upon the Gospel according to St. Luke. Vol. 1. Oxford: University Press, 1859. (pdf)
Smith, P. Commentary upon the Gospel according to St. Luke. Vol. 2. Oxford: University Press, 1859. (pdf)
Smith, P. The Third Part of the Ecclesiastical History of John, Biship of Ephesus. Oxford, 1860. (pdf)
Wallis, B. The Discourses of Philoxenus, Bishop of Mabbogh, A.D. 485-519. Vol. 2. London: Asher, 1893. (pdf)
Grammars:
Baethgen, F. Syrische Grammatik des Mar Elias von Tirhan. Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1880. (pdf)
Baumstark, A. Geschichte der syrischen Literatur. Bonn: Weber, 1922. (pdf)
Brockelmann, C. Syrische Grammatik. Berlin: Reuther and Reichard, 1912. (pdf)
Gismondi, E. Linguae syriacae grammatica et chrestomathia. Berythus: 1900. (pdf)
Hoffmann, A. The Principles of Syriac Grammar. Trans by Cowper, B. London: Williams and Norgate, 1858. (pdf)
Maclean, A. Grammar of the Dialects of Vernacular Syriac. Cambridge: University Press, 1895. (pdf)
Nestle, E. Syriac Grammar with Bibliography, Chrestomathy and Glossary. Berlin: Reuther, 1889. (pdf)
Phillips, G. Syriac Grammar. 2nd ed. London: Parker, 1845. (pdf)
Phillips, G. Syriac Grammar. 3rd ed. Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, and Co., 1866. (pdf)
Phillips, G. Syriac Grammar. Cambridge: Deighton, 1837. (pdf)
Saba, P. Syriac Grammar. 1937. In Arabic. (pdf)
Uhlemann, F. Uhlemann’s Syriac Grammar. Trans. by Hutchinson, E. New York: Appleton, 1855. (pdf)
Uhlemann, F. Uhlemann’s Syriac Grammar. Trans. by Hutchinson, E. 2nd ed. New York: Appleton, 1875. (pdf)
Wilson, R. Introductory Syriac Method and Manual. New York: Scribners, 1891. (pdf)
Lexica:
Brockelmann, C. Lexicon Syriacum. Edinburgh: Clark, 1895. (pdf)
Smith, P. Thesaurus Syriacus. 1879. (pdf)
Smith, P. Thesaurus Syriacus. Vol. 1. 1879. (pdf)
Smith, P. Thesaurus Syriacus. Vol. 2. 1879. (pdf)
Syriac and Semitic Studies:
Brockelmann, C. Geschichte der christlichen Litteraturen des Orients. Leipzig: Amelangs, 1909. (pdf)
Brockelmann, C. Kurzgefasste vergleichende Grammatik der semitischen Sprachen. Berlin: Reuther, 1908. (pdf)
Burkitt, F. Early Eastern Christianity: St. Margaret’s Lectures 1904 on the Syriac-speaking Church. New York: Dutton, 1904. (pdf)
Burkitt, F. The Syriac Forms of New Testament Proper Names. London: Frowde, 1884. (pdf)
Chase, F. The Old Syriac Element in the Text of Codex Bezae. London: Macmillan, 1893. (pdf)
Studia Biblica et ecclesiastica : essays chiefly in Biblical and patristic criticism. Vol. 1. Oxford: Clarendon, 1895. (pdf)
Studia Biblica et ecclesiastica : essays chiefly in Biblical and patristic criticism. Vol. 2. Oxford: Clarendon, 1895. (pdf)
Studia Biblica et ecclesiastica : essays chiefly in Biblical and patristic criticism. Vol. 3. Oxford: Clarendon, 1895.
Studia Biblica et ecclesiastica : essays chiefly in Biblical and patristic criticism. Vol. 4. Oxford: Clarendon, 1895. (pdf)
Studia Biblica: Essays in Biblical Archaeology and Criticism and Kindred Subjects. Oxford: Clarendon, 1885. (pdf)
Wright, W. A Short History of Syriac Literature. London: Black, 1894. (pdf)
**Additional resources available on the CUA-BYU site.
Jan 02 2009
Hebrew Tools
Grammars:
Ball, C. A Hebrew Primer. London: Bagster, 1878. (pdf)
Ballin, A. A Hebrew Grammar with Exercises Selected from the Bible. London: Kegan Paul, 1881. (pdf)
Bickell, G. Outlines of Hebrew Grammar. Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1877. (pdf)
Canney, M. Materials for Hebrew Composition. Manchester: Sherratt and Hughes, 1913. (pdf)
Coffey, H. Accidence of Hebrew Grammar. London: Herder, 1918. (pdf)
Davidson, A. Introductory Hebrew Grammar: Hebrew Syntax. Edinburgh: Clark, 1896. (pdf)
Davidson, A. Introductory Hebrew Grammar: Hebrew Syntax. Third Edition.
De Burgh, W. A Compendium of Hebrew Grammar. Dublin: McGlashan, 1847. (pdf)
Deutsch, S. A New Practical Hebrew Grammar. New York: Leypoldt and Holt, 1868. (pdf)
Edinburgh: Clark, 1902. (pdf)
Ewald, H. Syntax of the Hebrew Language of the Old Testament. London: Whittaker, 1836. (pdf)
Ewald, H. Ewald’s Introductory Hebrew Grammar. Trans by Smith, F. from 3rd German ed. London: Asher, 1870. (pdf)
Ewald, H. Syntax of the Hebrew Language of the Old Testament. Edinburgh: Clark, 1891. (pdf)
Geden, A. Outlines of Introduction to the Hebrew Bible. Edinburgh: Clark, 1909. (pdf)
Gesenius, W. Ausführliches grammatisch-kritisches Lehrgebäude der hebräischen Sprache. Leipzig: Vogel, 1817. (pdf)
Gesenius, W. Gesenius’ Hebrew Grammar. Trans. by Conant, T. from 11th ed. Boston: Gould, Kendall, and Lincoln, 1845. (pdf)
Gesenius, W. Gesenius’ Hebrew Grammar. Trans by Rödiger, E. London: Bagster, 1850. (pdf)
Gesenius, W. Hebrew Grammar. Trans. by Conant, T. from 17th ed. New York: Appleton, 1859. (pdf)
Gräfenhan, E. An Introduction to Writing Hebrew. Oxford: Talbeys, 1836. (pdf)
Green, W. A Grammar of the Hebrew Language. New York: Wiley, 1871. (pdf)
Green, W. An Elementary Hebrew Grammar. New York: Wiley, 1882. (pdf)
Hackett, H. Exercises in Hebrew Grammar. Andover: Allen, Morrill, and Wardwell, 1847. (pdf)
Harper, W. Elements of Hebrew by an Inductive Method. 7th ed. Chicago: American Publication Society of Hebrew, 1886. (pdf)
Harper, W. Introductory Hebrew Method and Manual. New York: Scribner, 1896. (pdf)
Hurwitz, H. A Grammar of the Hebrew Language. 2nd ed. London: Taylor, 1835. (pdf)
Hurwitz, H. A Grammar of the Hebrew Language. 3rd ed. London: Taylor and Walton, 1891. (pdf)
Kautzsch, E. Gesenius’ Hebrew Grammar. Trans. and rev. by Cowley, A. from 26th ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1898. (pdf)
Kautzsch, E. Wilhelm Gesenius’ Hebräische Grammatik. Trans by Cowley, A. Leipzig: Vogel, 1909. (pdf)
Kautzsch, E. Gesenius’ Hebrew Grammar. Trans by Cowley, A. Oxford: Clarendon, 1910. (pdf)
Kennedy, J. Introduction to Biblical Hebrew. London: Williams and Norgate, 1889. (pdf)
Land, J. The Principles of Hebrew Grammar. Trans by Poole, R. London: Trübner, 1876. (pdf)
McCaul, A. Introduction to Hebrew Grammar for the Use of Beginners. London: Parker, 1847. (pdf)
Meyrowitz, A. Hebrew Grammar. New York: University of Missouri, 1877 (pdf)
Müller, F. Outlines of Hebrew Syntax. Trans and ed. By Robertson, J. Glasgow: Maclehose, 1883. (pdf)
Nordheimer, I. Critical Grammar of the Hebrew Language. Vol. 1. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1842. (pdf)
Nordheimer, I. Critical Grammar of the Hebrew Language. Vol. 2. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1841. (pdf)
Price, E. The Elements of Hebrew. Philadelphia: Academy Book Room, 1922. (pdf)
Sebag, S. The Hebrew Primer and Reading Book. London: 1871. (pdf)
Seixas, J. A Manual Hebrew Grammar for the Use of Beginners. Andover: Gould and Newman, 1834. (pdf)
Stuart, M. A Grammar of the Hebrew Language. 3rd ed. Andover: Codman, 1828. (pdf)
Stuart, M. A Grammar of the Hebrew Language. 4th ed. Oxford: Talboys, 1831. (pdf)
Wijnkoop, J. Manual of Hebrew Grammar. Trans by van den Biesen, C. London: Luzac, 1897. (pdf)
Wijnkoop, J. Manual of Hebrew Grammar. Trans by van den Biesen, C. Revised. London: Luzac, 1898. (pdf)
Wilson, R. A Hebrew Grammar for Beginners. Leipzig: Drugulin, 1908. (pdf)
Lexica:
Bresslau, M. Hebrew and English Dictionary. London: Weale, 1855. (pdf)
Brown, F. et al. A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament. Oxford: Clarendon, 1906. (pdf)
Davidson, Benjamin – The Analytical Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon (pdf)
Davies, Benjamin – A Compendious and Complete Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon (pdf)
Frey, J. A Hebrew and English Dictionary. London: Tegg, 1842. (pdf)
Gesenius, W. Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament. Trans by Gibbs, J. Andover: Flagg and Gould, 1824. (pdf)
Gesenius, W. A Hebrew and English Lexicon to the Old Testament. Trans by Gibbs, J. London: Howell and Stewart, 1827. (pdf)
Gesenius, W. Gesenius’s Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament Scriptures. Trans by Tregelles, S. London: Bagster, 1857. (pdf)
Gesenius, W. A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament. Trans by Robinson, E. 18th ed. Boston: Crocker and Brewster, 1865. (pdf)
Gesenius, W. An English-Hebrew Lexicon. Trans by Robinson, E. New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1877. (pdf)
Gibbs, J. A Manuel Hebrew and English Lexicon. New Haven: Howe, 1832. (pdf)
Josephs, M. An English and Hebrew Lexicon. London: Wertheim, 1834. (pdf)
Lee, S. A Lexicon, Hebrew, Chaldee, and English. London: Duncan and Malcom, 1840. (pdf)
Newman, S. An English and Hebrew Lexicon. London, 1832. (pdf)
Parkhurst, John – Hebrew Lexicon and Grammar (pdf)
Rainey, W. Hebrew Vocabularies: Lists of the Most Frequently Occurring Hebrew Words. 4th ed. New York: Scribners, 1898. (pdf)
Robertson, W. Robertson’s Compendious Hebrew Dictionary. Rev by Joseph, N. Bath: Cruttwell, 1814. (pdf)
Waldstein, A. English-Hebrew Dictionary. 2nd ed. Jerusalem: Mizpah. (pdf)
Studies in Semitic Philology:
The Weak and Geminative Verbs in Hebrew. Trans by Jastrow, M. Leide: Brill, 1897. (pdf)
Brown, F. et al. Old Testament and Semitic Studies in Memory of William R. Harper. Vol. 1. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1908. (pdf)
Brown, F. et al. Old Testament and Semitic Studies in Memory of William R. Harper. Vol. 2. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1908. (pdf)
Brown, F. Assyriology: Its Use and Abuse in Old Testament Study. New York: Scribner, 1885. (pdf)
Burgess, W. Notes, Chiefly Critical and Philological, on the Hebrew Psalms. London: Williams and Norgate, 1879. (pdf)
Dalman, G. The Words of Jesus: Considered in the Light of Post-Biblical Jewish Writings and the Aramaic Language. Edinburgh: Clark, 1902. (pdf)
Davidson, A. Outlines of Hebrew Accentuation: Prose and Poetical. London: Williams and Norgate, 1861. (pdf)
Delitzsch, F. The Hebrew Language Viewed in the Light of Assyrian Research. London: Williams and Norgate, 1883. (pdf)
Driver, S.R. A Treatise on the Use of the Tenses in Hebrew. Oxford: Clarendon, 1874. (pdf)
Ember, A. The Pluralis Intensivus in Hebrew. Dissertation. Baltimore: Furst, 1905. (pdf)
Gaenssle, C. The Hebrew Particle asher. Dissertation. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1915. (pdf)
Geden, A. The Massoretic Notes Contained in the Edition of the Hebrew Scriptures. London: British and Foreign Bible Society, 1905. (pdf)
Gray, G. Studies in Hebrew Proper Names. London: Black, 1896. (pdf)
Greswell, J. Grammatical Analysis of the Hebrew Psalter. Oxford: Parker, 1873. (pdf)
Kennicott, B. Critica Sacra; or, A Short Introduction to Hebrew Criticism. London: Bowyer and Nichols, 1774. (pdf)
Kennicott, B. A Method of Reading Hebrew. 1780. (pdf)
Kennedy, J. Studies in Hebrew Synonyms. London: Williams and Norgate, 1898. (pdf)
Margoliouth, G. Hebrew-Babylonian Affinities. Lond: Nutt, 1899. (pdf)
Powell, H. The Supposed Hebraisms in the Grammar of the Biblical Aramaic. Semitic Philology 1 (1907) 1-55. (pdf)
Stevenson, J. Assyrian and Babylonian Contracts: with Aramaic Reference Notes. New York: American Book Company, 1902. (pdf)
Walker, D. The Semitic Negative. Dissertation. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1895. (pdf)
West, J. Linguistic Dating of the Hebrew Bible. Opensource. (pdf)
Aramaic Tools
Texts:
Delaporte, L. Épigraphes Araméens: etude des textes Araméens graves ou écrits sur des tablettes cuneiforms. Paris: Geuthner, 1912. (pdf)
Hoonacker, A. Une Communauté Judéo-Araméenne à Éléphantine, en Égypte, aux Vie et Ve siècles av. J.-C. Schweich Lectures of 1914. London: Oxford University, 1915. (pdf)
Montgomery, J. Aramaic Incantation Texts from Nippur. The Museum Publications of the Babylonian Section, vol. 3. Philadelphia: University Museum, 1913. (pdf)
Ungnad, A. Aramäische Papyrus aus Elephantine. Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1911. (pdf)
Translations:
Cowley, A. Jewish Documents of the Time of Ezra. London; Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1919. (pdf)
Grammars:
Fischer, B. Winer’s Chaldäische Grammatik für Bibel und Targumin. Leipzig: Barth, 1882. (pdf)
Levias, C. A Grammar of the Aramaic Idiom Contained in the Babylonian Talmud. Cincinnati: Bloch, 1896. (pdf)
Luzzatto, S. Grammatik der biblisch-chaldäischen Sprache und des Idioms des Talmud Babli. Breslau: Schletter, 1873. (pdf)
Luzzatto, S. Grammar of the Biblical Chaldaic Language and the Talmud Babli. Idioms. Trans by Goldammer, J. New York: Wiley, 1876. (pdf)
Margolis, M. A Manuel of the Aramaic Language of the Babylonian Talmud. München: Beck, 1910. (pdf)
Riggs, E. A Manuel of the Chaldee Language. Boston: Perkins and Marvin, 1832. (pdf)
Winer, G. Grammar of the Chaldee Language. Trans by Hackett, H. Andover: Allen, Morrill, and Wardwell, 1845. (pdf)
Lexica:
Cook, S. A Glossary of the Aramaic Inscriptions. Cambridge: Clay, 1898. (pdf)
Cowley, A. Aramaic Papyri of the Fifth Century B.C. Oxford: Clarendon, 1923. (pdf)
Dalman, G. Aramäisch-Neuhebräisches Ẅorterbuch. Frankfurt: Kauffmann, 1901. (pdf)
Northwest Semitic Tools
Texts:
Cooke, G. A Text-Book of North-Semitic Inscriptions: Moabite, Hebrew, Phoenician, Aramaic, Nabataean, Palmyrene, Jewish. Oxford: Clarendon, 1903. (pdf)
Sharpe, S. Hebrew Inscriptions. London: Smith, 1875. (pdf)
Grammars:
Nicholl, G. A Grammar of the Samaritan Language. London: Bagster, 1858. (pdf)
Segal, M. Mishnaic Hebrew and its Relation to Biblical Hebrew and to Aramaic. Oxford: Hart, 1909. (pdf)
Lexica:
Smith, P. Thesaurus Syriacus. Vol. 1. 1879. (pdf)
Smith, P. Thesaurus Syriacus. Vol. 2. 1879. (pdf)