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: it enables the reader to perceive Hebrew as a language and not an exercise in decipherment, it removes the obstacles to mastering innumerable pages of abstract phonological and orthographic details, and facilitate the memorization of the paradigms.
- ISBN10 0684413221
- ISBN13 9780684413228
- Publish Date 1 April 2000 (first published 1 September 1971)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint MacMillan Publishing Company
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Language English