This third volume in the Baylor Handbook on the Hebrew Bible series provides expert, comprehensive guidance in answering significant questions about the Hebrew text. While reflecting the latest advances in scholarship on Hebrew grammar and linguistics, the work utilizes a style that is lucid enough to serve as a useful agent for teaching and self-study.
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Professor Garrett has given us yet another carefully researched and insightfully analyzed text. His attention to detail at the syntactical and discourse levels are consistently thorough throughout. His interpretive assessments are cautious and judicious. --Timothy S. Laniak, Associate Professor of Old Testament, Gordon-Conwell Theological
Students who have passed a good introductory/intermediate level course of Biblical Hebrew will find this volume helpful to advance their knowledge of the language. Instructors who teach a regular or a directed studies course on the book of Amos should consider adopting this book as their textbook. --Ehud Ben Zvi, Professo, Dept. of History & Classics, University of Alberta
Students who have passed a good introductory/intermediate level course of Biblical Hebrew will find this volume helpful to advance their knowledge of the language. Instructors who teach a regular or a directed studies course on the book of Amos should consider adopting this book as their textbook. --Ehud Ben Zvi, Professo, Dept. of History & Classics, University of Alberta
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Duane A. Garrett (Ph.D. Baylor University) is John R. Sampey Professor of Old Testament Interpretation at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the author and editor of nine books, including, most recently: Archeological Study Bible: An Illustrated Walk Through Biblical History and Culture (2007), Biblical Commentary: Song of Songs (2004), and A Modern Grammar for Classical Hebrew (2002).
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This book does a very good job explaining all the words of every verse. Dr. Garrett is very clear and straightforward in his presentation of the text. For an intermediate Hebrew student, this is a great companion to extra practice in prophecy and poetry texts. (But, in following with Garrett's method, make sure you wrestle with the text on your own before just looking for his answers.)
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The young student of classical Hebrew philology is richly rewarded by reading, studying and reflecting on this deligthful treatise by Dr. Duane A. Garrett. The great Eighth Century poetical prophet, Amos [760-750 B.C.E.], will find a new audience for his divine and prophetical oracles of Doom. Our Age would do well to heed the lucid message of Amos, epecially his social criticisms of the abusive behavior of the powerful and corrupt---be they royal officers of the court and palace, royal off-spring (princes and princesses), wealthy merchants or the priesthood itself.
Dr. Garrett embellishes his text with the appropriate historical context and events that make Amos the prophet as pertinent to our vulgar, meretricious age [think Republicans in America, a silly kleptocracy] as the Judean 8th Century! Amos teaches how easy it is to steal the people's money by corruption in the churches and the courts---the twin sources of human mischief of deceit and violence in our social mileau.
After so much grammatical detail, it is nonsensical not to include a glossary of all Hebrew vocabulary and appropriate verbal conjugations and nominal declensions in this text. The nouns should be given in their singular & plural forms, and their singular & plural construct forms. After all, its pretense is the furthering development of the young student in his more mature Hebrew scholarship! This would further strengthen the mind of our young in philological matters.
Respectfully,
John E.D.P. Malin,
Chairman of the Board & Chief Executive Officer
Informatica Corporation
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Dr. Garrett embellishes his text with the appropriate historical context and events that make Amos the prophet as pertinent to our vulgar, meretricious age [think Republicans in America, a silly kleptocracy] as the Judean 8th Century! Amos teaches how easy it is to steal the people's money by corruption in the churches and the courts---the twin sources of human mischief of deceit and violence in our social mileau.
After so much grammatical detail, it is nonsensical not to include a glossary of all Hebrew vocabulary and appropriate verbal conjugations and nominal declensions in this text. The nouns should be given in their singular & plural forms, and their singular & plural construct forms. After all, its pretense is the furthering development of the young student in his more mature Hebrew scholarship! This would further strengthen the mind of our young in philological matters.
Respectfully,
John E.D.P. Malin,
Chairman of the Board & Chief Executive Officer
Informatica Corporation
P. O. Drawer 460
Cecilia LA 70521-0460
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first stanza, second stanza, third stanza, fourth strophe, fourth stanza, prose narrative, qal yiqtol, qal yigtol, qal qatal, prepositional phrase with locative, hiphil qatal, niphal yiqtol, divine speech formula, hiphil yiqtol, qal gatal, weqatal verbs, judgment strophes, negated qal, mainline sequence, qal active participle, judgment stanza, qal infinitive construct, hiphil infinitive construct, single strophe, oracle formula Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Prose Clause, Hebrew Bible, Line Alb, Shalom Paul, God of Sabaoth, Oracle of Doom, Fate of Israelites, Line Ale, Brook of the Arabah, Iron Age, Great Hamath, Dead Sea, Old Testament, Line Bic, Line Aid, Uncle Undertaker, Qal Wayyiqtol, Hiphil Wayyiqtol, Zaqeph Qaton, Qal Imperative Browse Sample Pages:
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first stanza, second stanza, third stanza, fourth strophe, fourth stanza, prose narrative, qal yiqtol, qal yigtol, qal qatal, prepositional phrase with locative, hiphil qatal, niphal yiqtol, divine speech formula, hiphil yiqtol, qal gatal, weqatal verbs, judgment strophes, negated qal, mainline sequence, qal active participle, judgment stanza, qal infinitive construct, hiphil infinitive construct, single strophe, oracle formula Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Prose Clause, Hebrew Bible, Line Alb, Shalom Paul, God of Sabaoth, Oracle of Doom, Fate of Israelites, Line Ale, Brook of the Arabah, Iron Age, Great Hamath, Dead Sea, Old Testament, Line Bic, Line Aid, Uncle Undertaker, Qal Wayyiqtol, Hiphil Wayyiqtol, Zaqeph Qaton, Qal Imperative Browse Sample Pages:
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