Treatise on the Use of the Tenses of Hebrew by S R Driver

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 Questions, 3rd edn. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1892. Hbk. pp.306. [Click here to visit the download page for this title]

Table of Contents

• Preface
• List of principal Works referred to by Author’s Names only, or by Abbreviations
• Additions and Corrections

1. Introduction
2. The Perfect alone
3. The Imperfect alone
4. The Cohortative amd Jussive (the model or Voluntative forms of the Imperfect)
5. The Voluntative with Waw
6. The Imperfect with Waw Consecutive
7. The Perfect and Imperfect with Weak Waw (the Simple Waw, not Consecutive)
8. The Participle
9. Hypotheticals

• Appendix I. On the Circumstantial Clause
• Appendix II. On the Use of the Jussive Form
• Appendix III. On the Arabic as Illustrative of Hebrew
• Appendix IV. On the Participle of Apposition in Hebrew
• Appendix V.
  1. On the Casus Pendens
  2. On some Uses of the Infinitive with lamed
  3. Instances of Variation in the Order of Words
  4. On Constructions of the type [Hebrew text]

• Index I (Subjects)
• Index II (Texts)

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