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Retrograde Hebrew and Aramaic Dictionary . By Ruth Sander and Kerstin Mayerhofer. (Journal of Ancient Judaism Supplements 1). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2010. Pp. 258. Hardback. €77.95. ISBN 978-3-525-55007-6.

Retrograde Hebrew and Aramaic Dictionary . By Ruth Sander and Kerstin Mayerhofer. (Journal of... Retrograde dictionaries are convenient standard tools for restoring fragmentary epigraphic material, because they can help figure out the lost beginning of a word whose end is still preserved. As a corollary, they provide some guidance as to the frequency of certain endings, e.g., abstract nouns in /-ūt/: lexemes are arranged alphabetically under the last letter first and the first letter last. Hebraists previously had at their disposal K.G. Kuhn’s Rückläufiges hebräisches Wörterbuch , a result of early research on the Qumran writings at Heidelberg. It appeared in 1958, also with Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (now out of print), and covered Biblical Hebrew, Ben Sira, several inscriptions, and the Hebrew Dead Sea Scrolls then known. In the meantime, however, many more Hebrew and Aramaic texts have been published, and countless readings in the first editions had to be revised. A successor was therefore long overdue. Here it is, authored by two graduate students in Jewish Studies at the University of Vienna. This new manual includes the Old Testament, Ben Sira, the Qumran Scrolls (presumably, like Kuhn, excluding copies of biblical texts, but this is not explicitly stated), and epigraphic material from Palestine written between the seventh century B.C.E. and 135 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal for the Study of Judaism Brill

Retrograde Hebrew and Aramaic Dictionary . By Ruth Sander and Kerstin Mayerhofer. (Journal of Ancient Judaism Supplements 1). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2010. Pp. 258. Hardback. €77.95. ISBN 978-3-525-55007-6.

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Journal for the Study of Judaism , Volume 43 (1): 128 – Jan 1, 2012
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Retrograde dictionaries are convenient standard tools for restoring fragmentary epigraphic material, because they can help figure out the lost beginning of a word whose end is still preserved. As a corollary, they provide some guidance as to the frequency of certain endings, e.g., abstract nouns in /-ūt/: lexemes are arranged alphabetically under the last letter first and the first letter last. Hebraists previously had at their disposal K.G. Kuhn’s Rückläufiges hebräisches Wörterbuch , a result of early research on the Qumran writings at Heidelberg. It appeared in 1958, also with Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (now out of print), and covered Biblical Hebrew, Ben Sira, several inscriptions, and the Hebrew Dead Sea Scrolls then known. In the meantime, however, many more Hebrew and Aramaic texts have been published, and countless readings in the first editions had to be revised. A successor was therefore long overdue. Here it is, authored by two graduate students in Jewish Studies at the University of Vienna. This new manual includes the Old Testament, Ben Sira, the Qumran Scrolls (presumably, like Kuhn, excluding copies of biblical texts, but this is not explicitly stated), and epigraphic material from Palestine written between the seventh century B.C.E. and 135

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