Hebrew and Greek Reader has posted Twenty Questions with Brian Webster, author of the Cambridge Introduction to Biblical Hebrew (CUP). Check it out.
See also the following reviews:
Rob Kashow’s explanation of the approach.
My own screen-cast of the TekScroll software that comes with the grammar..
Thanks.
How’s my review copy coming (wink).
By: John Anderson on July 16, 2009
at 4:20 pm
I thought I had a second coming coming in the mail. Unfortunately, I was wrong. So, your review copy is waiting for you at CUP. Let me know if you want the contact info.
By: Michael on July 16, 2009
at 4:23 pm
You are just a tease!!!
I requested something else from CUP that I’m waiting to hear on. So I’ll have to take a raincheck on this one.
By: John Anderson on July 16, 2009
at 4:29 pm
I think they’re biased to Baptist seminaries.
By: Rob Kashow on July 16, 2009
at 7:56 pm
Who? CUP or the blog?
By: Michael on July 16, 2009
at 9:03 pm
‘all’ may well be something of an exaggeration
By: Jim on July 16, 2009
at 9:04 pm
Perhaps. Do you have something that you’d like to share, Jim?
By: Michael on July 16, 2009
at 9:05 pm
CUP. I was picking on John and his Baylor (it’s Baptist).
By: Rob Kashow on July 16, 2009
at 10:15 pm
Yeah. I picked up on that shortly after a submitted the comment. Thanks for the explanation.
By: Michael on July 16, 2009
at 10:18 pm
By: Michael on July 16, 2009
at 10:18 pm
Michael do you have something in your eye too?
By: Rob Kashow on July 16, 2009
at 11:58 pm
If that is the case Rob, then it’s a good thing I’m . . . .
1) Not a Baptist
2) Not at a Baptist seminary
3) Not getting the joke (wink).
By: John Anderson on July 16, 2009
at 10:32 pm
John you’re doing a whole lot of winking as of late. Is something in your eye? Sorry, I meant Divinity school not ’seminary.’ I’m not sure it was a joke, perhaps a poor and failed attempt at being witting, but it was the only reason I could think of for such troubles with CUP. Of course the denomination doesn’t matter because Baylor is one of the tops schools, in my opinion, in the country. In the words of Triumph the Insult Dog, “I kid, I kid.” But no, Baylor is a great school, “FOR ME TO POOP ON!”
By: Rob Kashow on July 16, 2009
at 11:56 pm
Yes, I am indeed tired.
By: Rob Kashow on July 16, 2009
at 11:57 pm
And apparently intoxicated. (wink)—ha!
It’s also a good thing I’m not attending a divinity school. I’m terribly confused.
BTW, Rob, I have taken the liberty of saving this thread of comments, just in case you ever think of applying to Baylor. I may try to help you out by sharing it with the faculty!
By: John Anderson on July 17, 2009
at 12:29 am
Don’t tell me you’re not familiar with Triumph the Insult Dog from Conan?
Listen, they might not call it a “divinity school” but close enough if you ask me. With words like “Christian” “Christian” and “Christian” written all over the page, it sounds like one to me. It might not call itself a duck, but if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, chances are it’s a Divinity school! lol.
Don’t you know that drinking is wrong John?
By: Rob Kashow on July 17, 2009
at 12:56 am
oops.. here’s the page: http://www.baylor.edu/religion/graduate/index.php?id=15489
By: Rob Kashow on July 17, 2009
at 12:57 am
Rob: Have you still not figured it out? John has never been enrolled in Truett (sp?). He’s not at a seminary or divinity school.
By: Michael on July 17, 2009
at 6:36 am
Mike, click the link. I was never referring to Truett. But Baylor’s Graduate School of Religion.
By: Rob Kashow on July 17, 2009
at 10:21 am
Yes, I know Triumph.
No, I don’t drink.
Baylor is not a div school or seminary. Truett is a seminary. No ducks here.
By: John Anderson on July 17, 2009
at 4:51 pm
Rob, I forgot to add a few things.
1) I wasn’t asking you (wink).
2) Your say “with words like ‘Christian,’ Christian, and Christian all over . . . . ” This is perhaps the least insightful thing I have ever heard you say. We are studying religion you know. And often (though not always) in a confessional context. Not all at a given institution share those same confessions (I can testify to that!!).
3) At very bottom, you are wrong. The religion department at Baylor is hardly a seminary, hardly a div school. I know, I went to DUKE DIVINITY SCHOOL. I know what a div school looks like. The Biblical Studies dept. at Baylor, at least, is not a seminary or div school. But hey, get this—we do have Christians teaching there. Maybe that explains some of the verbage?
By: John Anderson on July 17, 2009
at 8:21 pm
John,
I’m sure that while they describe their program in a Christian context the inner workings are as you say. But you don’t have to provide a defense, I was antagonizing you last night. Get this, I go to Dennys and ask specifically for Decaf coffee. So what do they incredibly incompetent people do? Serve me caffeinated coffee that not only wound me up and got me in a spastic mood, but kept me lying in bed with my eyes awake until 330am.
If this blog had been about Michael’s visit to the Dentist, we would have come full circle to the incompetence of the service in Dallas. But since its about CIBH, there really is no excuse for all this digression. lol
By: Rob Kashow on July 17, 2009
at 8:28 pm
No harm. Sarcasm is hard to diagnose online. But regardless, my points still are true.
By: John Anderson on July 17, 2009
at 10:12 pm
Just know that I’m one of the most sarcastic people out there.
By: Rob Kashow on July 17, 2009
at 11:24 pm
Are you being sarcastic when you say that?!
By: John Anderson on July 18, 2009
at 12:03 am
Perhaps we will review this new Hebrew grammar on our Hebrew website, and see whether a whole new generation of students learning Hebrew at university should be using this text.
By: Hebrew Student on July 18, 2009
at 10:47 am
I think you should do just that!
By: Michael on July 18, 2009
at 3:52 pm