A Guide to Pronouncing Biblical Names

by Craig Scott

Book Overview

Pronounce unfamiliar names with confidence by using this valuable resource. It provides currrently preferred and permissible pronunciations for 3,000-plus names, arranged alphabetically.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081921292X
• ISBN13: 9780819212924
• Release Date: August 1989
• Publisher: Church Publishing
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 3.9" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Small Wonder

This book was written by the former chairman of the Religion Department of Dartmouth College and was a labor of love. It is as unique as it's author, my late grandfather. It is also quite useful and all proceeds from it's sale are donated to the scholarship fund at Hobart and William Smith College. Enjoy.

Why I think this book is useful...

I read both reviews of the book, and I can see both points of view. This book isn't going to be helpful to someone in an academic setting, or where absolute accuracy is necessary. But it is precisely because the author's system is somewhat more simplified than usual pronounciation guides that it is great for use by an everyday person who is about to read scripture in church. I've had a copy since 1991, and have loaned it to dozens of people. I'm ordering a copy for our church intern, for his own library. I think it's a great book.

Exactly what I needed

What a dandy little book! In only 96 pages, it gives both preferred and permissible pronounciations of about three thousand people and place names taken from the NRSV Old Testament, Apocrypha, and New Testament. T.S.K. Scott-Craig uses a clear, easily comprehensible re-spelling system to indicate pronunciation. There are no phonetic symbols, only accent marks that show the stressed syllables. As well as giving each variant of a name alphabetically, he (she?) lists them all together under the name's main entry. At the end there's a nifty 14-page appendix of foreign terms used in English translations of the Bible--"shibboleth," "ephphatha," "selah," and "mammon," for example. This wonderful compact book will slip right into your pocket. It was a terrific find.