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Today’s free book is William Wright’s Short History of Syriac Literature. Wright was Professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge. This public domain work was digitised using the copy from the library of Terence C. Mitchell. William Wright [1830-1889], A Short History of Syriac Literature. London: Adam & Charles Black, 1894. Hbk. pp.296. [Click…
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Today’s free book is one for students of the Hebrew language: Samuel Rolles Driver’s Treatise on the Uses of the Tenses of Hebrew. This public domain title was digitised from the copy held in Spurgeon’s College library. Samuel Rolles Driver [1846-1914], A Treatise on the Use of the Tenses in Hebrew and Some Other Syntactical…
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Today’s free book is an annotated Hebrew text of the Book of Joshua. The author, Samuel Friedeberg, was a Jewish Rabbi, who was “senior minister of the Liverpool Old Hebrew Congregation, where he served for 41 years“. My thanks to Book Aid for making a copy of this public domain title available for digitisation. Samuel…
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Over the lockdown I have been working with the family of Dr Norman H Snaith (1898-1982) and his publishers to digitise as many of his books and articles as possible. Norman Henry Snaith …coming from a Primitive Methodist background, was a remarkable man who rose to become a renowned international Bible scholar; was awarded an…
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Today’s free book will be of help to students learning Hebrew – T.K. Arnold’s First Hebrew Book. My thanks to Book Aid for making a copy of this public domain work available for digitisation. Thomas Kerchever Arnold [1800-1853], First Hebrew Book, 9th edn. London, New York & Bombay: Longmans, Green & Co., 1896. Hbk. pp.276….
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Today’s free book is a grammar of Biblical Chaldean, today known as Aramaic. This public domain copy was digitised from the copy held in Spurgeon’s College library. Samuel David Luzzatto [1800-1865], Grammar of the Biblical Chaldaic Language and the Talmud Babli idioms; translated from the Italian, and largely reviewed by J.S. Goldammer. New York: John…
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A supporter of Theology on the Web recently requested that I upload more language reference works, so here is Noldeke’s Syriac Grammar. This book was digitised from the copy held in Spurgeon’s College Library. This title is in the public domain. Theodor Nöldeke, Compendious Syriac Grammar, translated from the Second and Improved German Edition by…
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I have been told that lder works on the Greek text are proving of great help to modern students, so I am pleased to be able to offer free-of-charge Walter Fletcher Burnside’s work on Acts. My thanks to Book Aid for making this public domain work available for digitisation. Walter Fletcher Burnside [1874-1949], The Acts…