Williams' Hebrew Syntax, Third Edition

This book is the most direct and in your face notebook style written grammar book I've ever seen, making it very enjoyable and easy to use. However it is a tad deceptive in that title of this book leads you to believe it deals solely with word order, it saved the discussion of kinds of syntax solely for the end of the book in a small section in the back and could have definitely benefited from having a exercises/workbook (to practice identifying passage's structures and sorts of clauses employed) with answer key in the back inside this book. I realize that the book needed to mention like every other point of grammar as it is all useful as piecing together clues I suppose on syntax, but in order for the title to match up with this book better it ought to have devoted much more attention to explaining the syntax and types of clauses. It at least and example or two for everything thing in the book but I thought that the book would greatly benefit with a little workbook set of exercises from actual passages in the Hebrew Bible (with an answer key) in the back, to practice identifying the clauses you learned about in the book.

This is obviously a very helpful resource. But whereas the footnotes are hyperlinked, the frequently cross-referenced Sections are not. I'm getting the print edition because I don't have time to scroll hither and yon on the Kindle version.

Great! Used this in Hebrew Syntax classes some 30 years ago. It has pleasantly been upgraded and improved. I would move it to the second semester of Hebrew reading rather than the first. Avoid the larger texts as they complicate things early on and are more for Grammarians than those who simply wish to read Hebrew. By the way, advanced classes often equal more grammar. However, as you would in English, get to the reading rather than the advanced English stuff; which is really for the Grammarians. So: 1. Basic Grammar (suggest PUTNAM as the best Basic Grammar) 2. Basic Syntax (Use This Book!) and Vocabulary Mastery by roots (George M. Lands', Building Your Hebrew Vocabulary, or Dennis Dickinson's, Biblical Hebrew Vocabulary (Short List), for complete Vocabulary Mastery) Saves a lot of time! 3. Put some miles behind you in Reading pure Hebrew and mastering more Vocabulary. If you wish to be a Hebrew Grammarian, fine; But if Reading the Hebrew Bible comfortably is your goal, then here is your Second Year Text.

I made the mistake of ordering Kindle version which is almost impossible to navigate. As a reference book, there should be a robust table of contents but unfortunately the digital version does this very poorly.

Being self-taught at Hebrew, I thought that Williams Hebrew Syntax would increase my ability to navigate through Hebrew syntax substantially. I had worked through most of Kelley's Grammar and have read through almost two intermediate readers and found that Williams not only did not give me more than I could get in the BDB and Jouon-Muraoka, it didn't even briefly address some of the important questions I had. I fully understand that an affordable volume like this isn't meant to be comprehensive like Waltke-O'Connor, but it should at least touch on important issues. An example of this is with the particle na'. I have the Kindle version, so it may be in the paperback version, but I found no reference to this particle of entreaty in either the contents or the index of the Kindle version! na' is not listed under particles and it does not appear in the section on volitional clauses. So, as with most of my questions on syntax, I had to go to Jouon-Muraoka's Grammar of Biblical Hebrew (since I do not own Waltke-O'Connor). My suggestion is that if you want to understand Hebrew syntax, find another more comprehensive volume.

Basically this book is a compendium of the the syntactical options available to the exegete. It provides a thorough listing of optiosn along with relevant passages that highlight his points. I think this is a worthwhile purchase. As the title reflects this would be a good intermediate grammar/syntax for the Hebrew student.One downside to this syntax is that there is very little in offering the student on how to use the different options. While I have said that this book is for those who are intermediate or advanced, and by definition shoudl alreayd know how to use it, it would be helpful for an explaination of his rationale for making some of the distinctions that he does. All in all a good reference book that will serve it purpose!

While there are serval textbooks that treats Biblical Hebrew syntax issues, I think William 's Hebrew syntax by far is the most comprehensive and readable grammar book on the market. It treats each category of Biblical hebrew syntax-noun, verb, prepostion, and sentence structures- down to minutest detail. But in my opion, William have had least treatment of wav-consective topic where he just went throught the basics (probably due to the the controveral nature, he refrain to draw any conclusive statement regarding wav-connsective which leave the final judegment to the readers ) as oppose to the Intermediate Biblical Hebrew by Andrew E. Steinmann that give fuller treatment helping the readers to grasp one of the most diffcult yet controversal issue among the acdemic circle of the day. Well, that being said it , however, it does not downplay the overall content quality of the william's Biblical Hebrew Syntax.

Perhaps not as detailed, or with as much discussion or examples as a Greek Syntax book, this book lists uses of various forms and syntactic functions of Biblically Hebrew.

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