Overview
The Comprehensive Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic Glossary is a concise dictionary/lexicon/glossary for Biblical Hebrew and Biblical Aramaic with excellent formatting and navigation. The Hebrew is displayed beautifully on the Nook. It contains glosses for every lexeme (word) in Biblical Hebrew (over 8000) and Biblical Aramaic (over 700). It integrates lexicographic research from BDB (The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament), HALOT (The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament by Ludwig Koehler and Walter Baumgartner), DCH (The Dictionary of Classical Hebrew, edited by David J. A. Clines), and other sources to present the best of contemporary scholarship. Here are some of its characteristics:
- It integrates contemporary definitions with traditional interpretations.
- It lists definitions in order of descending frequency.
- It aligns proper names with the spelling of most current English Bible translations.
- It updates archaic meanings to modern norms of language.
- It provides glosses for precisely the verbal stems that appear in the Bible.
- It provides separate glosses for all homonyms.
Easy and Powerful Navigation
This digital edition of The Comprehensive Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic Glossary recognizes that you do not generally read dictionaries linearly. As a result, it makes use of all of the navigational capabilities on the various Nook devices, including the use of a two-tiered table of contents, allowing for rapid navigation to an entry in the glossary by its first two letters. Note that navigation details might be different in the various Nook applications for platforms other than the Nook itself.
In addition, you can navigate directly to a particular entry by searching for that entry using transliterated Hebrew, using just the consonants, with "h " (i.e. the letter h followed by a space) for Hebrew and "a " (i.e. the letter a followed by a space) for Aramaic. The transliteration scheme, along with more details, may be found in the book's preface.
Note on Version
This e-book was updated on January 14, 2012 to address compatibility issues with recent software updates to certain Nook models (1.4 on Nook Color and Nook Tablet, 1.1 on Nook Simple Touch Reader).
Publisher
This digital version is produced by Miklal Software Solutions, Inc., which provides software solutions for biblical studies, Semitics, and digital humanities.
