Omschrijving
This volume is a practical grammar of Rabbinic Hebrew which incorporates the results of recent investigations in this field. Starting from a pedagogic perspective, it contains vocabulary and exercises in every unit, and introduces readers to thinking of the Sages of Israel.
'...the most complete description of the language of the Mishnah and other tannaitic works in English since Segal's 1927 grammar…Pérez Fernández has rendered an important service to English-speaking students and scholars. He has made the modern study of Mishnaic Hebrew easily accessible to a wide audience.' Steven E. Fassberg, The Jewish Quarterly Review, 1999.
Miguel Pérez Fernández, Ph.D. (1975) in Semitic Philology, Madrid, is Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature in the University of Granada. He is series editor of Biblioteca Midrásica, in which series he has published translations, with commentaries, of Pirqe Rabbi Eliezer (Valencia, 1984), Sifre to Numbers (Valencia, 1989) and Sifra (Estella, 1997). John F. Elwolde Ph.D. (1988) in Linguistics, Hull, is an Associate Member of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford. His publications in the fields of Hebrew language and the Dead Sea Scrolls include translations of A. Sáenz-Badillos's A history of the Hebrew Language (Cambridge, 1993) and M. Pérez Fernández's An Introductory Grammar of Rabbinic Hebrew (Leiden, 1997).