Dr. Phil Brown Authors Newly-Published Hebrew Bible
 We are excited to announce that Zondervan Publishing Company has just released A Reader's Hebrew Bible by Dr. A. Phillip Brown II, faculty member of GBS's Division of Ministerial Education. In the fall of 2004, Zondervan responded to Dr. Brown's book proposal and offered him a contract. A Reader's Hebrew Bible is designed to help those with at least one year of formal training in Biblical Hebrew to develop their skills by reading the Old Testament in its original language. This volume contains the entire Hebrew (and Aramaic) Old Testament from Genesis to Malachi. All Hebrew words that occur less than 100 times have been footnoted at the bottom of each page where they occur. A contextual definition derived from two major Hebrew lexicons (HALOT and BDB) is provided. Of the 60,500-plus words that occur less than 100 times, Dr. Brown handled 48,000 of them. He asked his former teaching partner and PhD classmate, Dr. Bryan Smith, to help him notate the remaining 12,000 words. Dr. Smith, who earned an Old Testament PhD, is the Bible integration coordinator for Bob Jones University Press.
Because Zondervan does not have the personnel trained to typeset Hebrew, Dr. Brown typeset the entire volume and submitted a press ready-version to the publisher. Typesetting the volume involved writing a program in Visual Basic for Applications that set up the text properly in MS Word and then transferred it programmatically to Adobe PageMaker. As Dr. Phil notes in his preface, his ability to produce and typeset this volume is a marvelous example of God's providential working to prepare His servants to accomplish the tasks He has for them. It is his hope that this tool will help pastors, teachers, seminarians and educated laypersons to understand and appreciate God's Word in the Old Testament more deeply. We praise the Lord for this achievement by one of our faculty members and offer our congratulations to Dr. Phil for this honor!
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Posted on Tuesday, April 8, 2008
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