David Winton Thomas (1901-1970) was Regius Professor of Hebrew in
the University of Cambridge (1938-1968) and one of the most
distinguished British lexicographers of the Hebrew language. His
special contribution was the identification of words in Biblical
Hebrew that had lain undetected since ancient times, sometimes
because they were homonyms of other, better-known words. He called
his project 'The Recovery of the Ancient Hebrew Language', the
title of his inaugural lecture at Cambridge in 1939, as well as of
the present book. In this volume John Day has gathered together all
Winton Thomas's lexicographical articles (nearly 400 pages
altogether) in a convenient format; hitherto these have been
scattered around many different journals and books. In addition, he
has prefaced them with a very substantial introduction of some 150
pages, in which he offers the first thorough and systematic
evaluation of Winton Thomas's work. Day concludes that there are
definitely occasions where Thomas has made a positive and enduring
contribution to Hebrew lexicography, and it is important that
modern scholars do not overlook these conclusions. On the other
hand, it becomes clear that Thomas was sometimes too prone to
appeal to cognate Semitic languages (especially Arabic) in the
search for new meanings of Hebrew words when this was unnecessary.
In seeking to make a thorough appraisal of Thomas's proposals this
volume offers a valuable contribution to the study of Biblical
Hebrew lexicography.
General
| Imprint: |
Sheffield Phoenix Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Hebrew Bible Monographs, No. 20 |
| Release date: |
November 2010 |
| First published: |
October 2013 |
| Editors: |
John Day
|
| Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 28mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover - Laminated cover
|
| Pages: |
524 |
| Edition: |
New |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-906055-31-8 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Language & Literature >
Language & linguistics >
Semantics (meaning) >
Lexicography
|
| LSN: |
1-906055-31-9 |
| Barcode: |
9781906055318 |
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