Bible Review

NEB readings that depart from the traditional Hebrew text are found in L.H. Brockington, The Hebrew Text of the Old Testament: The Readings Adopted by the Translators of the New English Bible (Oxford and Cambridge, UK: University Presses, 1973).

Since the goal of this transcription is to approximate the format of written Hebrew, each HebËrew letter has been equated with one English letter; ’ represents aleph, s represents shin, h\ represents chet, and so on. However, like the letter c in English, several Hebrew letters may represent quite distinct sounds.

See Geoffrey Sampson, Writing Systems: A Linguistic Introduction (Stanford, CA: Stanford Univ. Press, 1985), pp. 89–92.

Simchah Assaf, ”An Ancient Poem on the Destruction of Communities in Eretz Israel,“ Bulletin of the Jewish Palestine Exploration Society (1940), pp. 60–67 (in Hebrew).