An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax

Acknowledgments
Both authors wish to take this opportunity to thank their teachers: Waltke was trained
by T. O. Lambdin, F. M. Cross, and the late G. Ernest Wright of Harvard; and
O’Connor by C. R. Krahmalkov, D. N. Freedman, and G. E. Mendenhall of Michigan.
All graduate study is a collaborative endeavor, and we want to take this opportunity to
thank our fellow students, often now colleagues and advisers. Our publishers have
been involved closely with the project for over eight years, and James E. Eisenbraun
has worked on every aspect of the book, in the great tradition of scholar-publishers.
Both authors take full responsibility for the work.
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Typographical errors have been corrected and some garbled or badly written passages
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thanks to them.
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we are happy to correct errors and amend infelicities pointed out by students at
Westminster Theological Seminary (Philadelphia) and Regent College (Vancouver),
by reviewers, and by other colleagues and friends, including Ralph L. Bogle (Ann
Arbor), James H. Charlesworth (Princeton), Terence Collins (Manchester), Peter T.
Daniels (Chicago), John Huehnergard (Cambridge, Massachusetts), and W. G. E.
Watson (Edinburgh).
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Opportunity to revise this volume has not arisen, and thus the bibliographical material
especially remains dated. A second edition would and, we hope, will soon profit from
much scholarly study that has been presented and published in the last decade. We