Author: Ewald, Heinrich Georg August.
Title: Grammatik der Hebräischen Sprache des Alten testaments. Dritte Auflage.
Description: Leipzig, in der Hahnschen Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1838. Third edition. iv, 398 pp. 8vo. 13x23cm. Rebound in modern half leather-cloth with raised bands, marbled boards. Partly printed in Hebrew. Uncut, partly unopened. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. Ewald (1803-1875) was a German Orientalist and Biblical scholar. His numerous writings, from 1823 onwards, were the reservoirs in which the entire energy of a life was stored. His Hebrew Grammar of 1826 inaugurated a new era in biblical philology (it was reworked and reprinted many times under slightly varying titles upto 1870) and lay the foundations for the historical-critical method in Semitic philology. All subsequent works in that department have been avowedly based on his, and to him belongs the honour of having been, as Hitzig has called him, the second founder of the science of the Hebrew language. As an exegete and biblical Critic no less than as a grammarian he has left his abiding mark. (Enc. Britt.)

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