Canter Bridge

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As a poor graduate student, I once inquired of the principal lecturer in modern Hebrew whether I could get away with snagging a mid-priced Hebrew-English dictionary.

I will never forget the condescending—not to say disdainful—look with which she said, ‘Well, I suppose you could … But as a PhD student in Hebrew, I can’t imagine that you can get away without owning the Alcalay.’ (more…)

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The review that follows was originally published in The Churchman, 1999.

HOSEA. The International Critical Commentary
A.A. Macintosh
Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark. 1997 600pp ISBN 0 567 08545 7

Andrew Macintosh’s Hosea offers its reader the judiciously critical stance, the attention to detail, and the craftsmanship which have characterised the ICC in its best moments. It then adds to this package a reverent dialogue with an ancient interpretative tradition that rarely finds a voice in the circles frequented by readers of such commentaries, that of Medieval Jewish exegetes like David Kimchi, Rashi, and Nachmanides. The result is extraordinarily rich. (more…)

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