A Treatise on the Use of the Tenses in Hebrew and Some Other Syntactical Questions

by S. R. Driver

Overview

This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable.

The original publication of A Treatise on the Use of the Tenses in Hebrew and Some Other Syntactical Questions (1894) launched S. R. Driver's career and placed him at the forefront of Hebrew grammar and biblical studies. The reason is simple: this work was the first attempt in English to expound the principles of Hebrew syntax on lines at once philosophical and scientific. All modern study of Hebrew has been founded on the Tenses, and it remains perhaps the most interesting and original book that Drive wrote. Its final edition was hailed as the best single study of the Hebrew verbal system. Even critics conceded it to be an exciting and brilliant work that shaped future discussion of the Hebrew and Semitic verb.

This Biblical Resources Series edition of Driver's classic work, which adopts the third and final edition of the Tenses (1892), includes Driver's expanded and improved version of the text as well as a lengthy new introductory essay by W. Randall Garr on the history of the Tenses and its enduring importance as a manual for today's students of the Hebrew language.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780802841605
Publisher:	Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company
Publication date:	12/16/1997
Series:	The Biblical Resource Series (BRS)
Edition description:	4th ed
Pages:	392
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.88(d)

Table of Contents

	List of principal Works referred to by Authors' Names only, or by Abbreviations	xiv
	Additions and Corrections	xvi
	Further Corrections	xvii
	Driver's Treatise and the Study of Hebrew: Then and Now	xviii
Chap. I.	Introduction	1
Chap. II.	The Perfect alone	13
Chap. III.	The Imperfect alone	27
Chap. IV.	The Cohortative and Jussive (the Modal or Voluntative forms of the Imperfect)	50
Chap. V.	The Voluntative with Waw	64
Chap. VI.	The Imperfect with Waw Consecutive	70
Chap. VII.	Accents	100
Chap. VIII.	The Perfect with Waw Consecutive	114
Chap. IX.	The Perfect and Imperfect with Weak Waw (the Simple Waw, not Consecutive)	158
Chap. X.	The Participle	165
Chap. XI.	Hypotheticals	174
Appendix I.	On the Circumstantial Clause	195
Appendix II.	On the Use of the Jussive Form	212
Appendix III.	On the Arabic as Illustrative of Hebrew	219
Appendix IV.	On the Principle of Apposition in Hebrew	246
	Appendix V.
1.	On the Casus Pendens	264
2.	On Some Uses of the Infinitive with Lamed	274
3.	Instances of Variation in the Order of Words	279
4.	On Construction of the type [characters not reproducible]	281
Index I	(Subjects)	285
Index II	(Texts)	289

Editorial Reviews

Originally published in 1874 by Oxford University Press, this was the first attempt in English to expound the principles of Hebrew syntax on lines at once philosophical and scientific. This edition adopts the third and final 1892 edition of Driver's classic work and includes a new introductory essay on the history of the and its enduring importance as a manual for today's students of Hebrew. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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