An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew by Thomas O. Lambdin (1971 Hardcover w/o Dust Jacket) ? Author: Thomas Oden Lambdin (1927?2020) ? Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons New York, NY U.S.A 1971 The choice of vocabulary and grammar, in this book, is essentially an introduction to the prose, not the poetical language. Generous use of transliteration is meant to serve three purposes: 1) it enables the reader to perceive Hebrew as a language and not an exercise in decipherment, 2) it removes the obstacles to mastering innumerable pages of abstract phonological and orthographic details, and 3) facilitate the memorization of the paradigms. By keeping the grammatical discussion at a relatively unsophisticated level the text can be used for study without a teacher. Designed to be a full year college text on the topic. Preface, Contents, Introduction, 55 Lessons, 5 Appendices, both Hebrew-English English-Hebrew Glossaries, and Index. xxviii + 345pp. Thomas Oden Lambdin (1927?2020) was a leading scholar of the Semitic and Egyptian languages. He received his PhD in 1952 from John Hopkins and retired as a Professor of Semitic Languages for Harvard. He is best remembered for the quality of his introductory texts on Biblical Hebrew, Coptic, Ge'ez, and Gothic languages. Hardcover has gray paper boards with metallic red ink lettering on covers and spine, but no DJ. Handled with care, at first looks very good or better with square corners and minor shelf-wear. However, this book has been heavily studied with notes in margins and underlining in text from Lesson One through Twenty (pages 1 - 94). Page-edges show this portion of the book handled extensively in this area - some pages dog-eared. Remainder of book (except glossaries) look untouched. End-pages have notes post-it notes. Study aids and notes laid in. Interior is complete and tightly bound. Heavily used but not abused. ? Size: 4to - over 9 - 12" tall, 373pp. ? Condition: Good minus Hardcover without Dust Jacket ? Always privately owned. Extensive notes and highlighting in book almost every page through lesson 18 (1st 81 pages of text) Copyright 1971. Printed in U.S.A. Print-line indicates this copy from 25th printing in 1976. ISBN: 0-02-367250-1. LCCN: 75-100128. No MSR.