Beyond Babel: A Handbook for Biblical Hebrew and Related Languages

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Beyond Babel: A Handbook for Biblical Hebrew and Related Languages. Edited by John Kaltner and Steven L. McKenzie. Resources for Biblical Study 42. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2002, xiii + 241 pp., $29.95 paper.

Notwithstanding a few critical issues of concern to evangelicals, Beyond Babel: A Handbook for Biblical Hebrew and Related Languages will certainly be regarded as a most welcome supplementary textbook by Biblical Hebrew teachers and students alike. The stated purpose is to provide "a general orientation to the languages of importance for the study of the Hebrew Bible for readers who have not had detailed exposure to those languages" (p. vii). Ostensibly, the …