Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #219005 in Books
• Published on: 2002-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback

Customer Reviews

Not recommended.
Note: The arguments in this book are rejected by most. Please take that into consideration.

It is a shame that this argument is still being made today, given that it was disproven by James Barr in 1961! (cf. "The Semantics of Biblical Language")

The book by Barr is excellent. If you can get your hands on a copy, do so. It is mildly technical, but one will be able to understand the concepts without a knowledge of biblical languages.

A must for proper interpretation of the Hebrew Bible
A very informative book describing, with clarity and detail, the mind of the Hebrews who wrote the Bible. As you read this book you quickly discover that the authors of the Bible do not think like we do. The Biblical text comes alive as you begin to understand the philosophy of the ancient Hebrews and how they perceived life, the world and God.

If you read the Bible from our Modern Western view, your interpretation will be a Modern Western interpretation. But, if you can understand the mind of the Ancient Hebrews and read it from their perspective your interpretation will be very different and closer to what the author intended.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who is seriously looking to understand the Tenach/Old Testament.

Read James Barr's Semantics of Biblical Language
This book assumes the peculiarity of the Hebrew language to make a theological point. Unfortunately, the author does not make a systematic analysis of either Hebrew or Greek. The arguments of the book were completely demolished by James Barr (Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford University) in his book, The Semantics of Biblical Language. While I would urge everyone to study Hebrew (and Greek) because it will open up new insights into the Scriptures, this facile treatment of Hebrew is not really worthwhile.