Old Testament Hebrew Resources (including linguistics and semantics)
Concordances
E. Even-Shoshan, A New Concordance of the Old Testament Using the Hebrew and Aramaic Text, Baker, 1989. ****
Lexica
William L. Holladay, A
Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament,
Eerdmans, 1972. (introductory level) ****
F. Brown, S. R. Driver, and C. A. Briggs, A Hebrew and
English Lexicon of the Old Testament, Oxford, 1952. (still
old standard)
David J. A. Clines (ed.), The
Dictionary of Classical Hebrew, Sheffield Academic Press,
1993-. (8 vols.) a theology-oriented dictionary
L. Koehler and W. Baumgartner, et al (eds.), The
Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament (4 vols.)
Brill, 1994-. (the new standard)
Grammars
B. K. Waltke and M. OConnor,
An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax. Eisenbrauns,
1990. (indispensible)
Choon-Leong Seow, A Grammar for Biblical Hebrew,
Abingdon, 1995. ***
Page H. Kelley, Biblical Hebrew: An Introductory Grammar.
Eerdmans, 1992. ***
Bonnie P. Kittel, et al, Biblical Hebrew: A Text and
Workbook, Yale University Press, 1989. ***1/2 (many seminary
professors grammar of choice)
Not Yet Reviewed
G. D. Pratico and M. V. van Pelt, Basics of Biblical Hebrew: Grammar, Zondervan, 2001
Text-Criticism
E. Brotzman, Old Testament Textual Criticism: A Practical
Introduction, Baker, 1994.
Emmanuel Tov, Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible,
Fortress, 1992.
Ernst Würthwein, The Text of the Old Testament,
Eerdmans, 1995.
Theological Dictionaries
Botterweck and Ringgren, Theological Dictionary of the Old
Testament, Eerdmans, 2001. (11 vols.)
Willem VanGemeren, New International
Dictionary of Old Testament Theology and Exegesis, Zondervan,
1997. (5 vols.)
J. D. Douglas, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (3 vols.),
Servant Publications, 1998.
Harris, Archer, and Waltke, Theological Wordbook of
the Old Testament, Moody, 1980. (2 vols.)
Semantics / Linguistics
James Barr, The Semantics of Biblical Language,
Oxford University Press, 1961.
Robert L. Bergen, Biblical
Hebrew and Discourse Linguistics, SIL International,
1994.
Walter R. Bodine, Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew,
Eisenbrauns, 1992.
Max Turner and Peter Cotterell, Linguistics and Biblical
Interpretation, Inter-Varsity, 1989.
Not Yet Reviewed
James Barr, Comparative Philology and the Text of the Old
Testament: With Additions and Corrections, Eisenbrauns, 1987.
Cynthia L. Miller, The Verbless Clause in Biblical Hebrew:
Linguistic Approaches, Eisenbrauns, 1999.