Thomas Oden Lambdin

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Thomas Oden Lambdin is one of the leading scholars of the Semitic and Egyptian languages. He is Professor Emeritus of Semitic Languages at Harvard University.

He is admired not only for his research, but for the quality of his introductory textbooks on Biblical Hebrew, Coptic, Ge'ez and Gothic language.

[edit] Works

  • Lambdin, Thomas O. (1958). "The Bivalence of Coptic Eta and Related Problems in the Vocalization of Egyptian". Journal of Near Eastern Studies 17 (3): 177–193. doi:10.1086/371466. 
  • (1973) Introduction To Biblical Hebrew. Darton,Longman and Todd Ltd. ISBN 9780232513691. 
  • (1978) Introduction to Classical Ethiopic, Harvard Semitic Studies 24. Missoula, Montana: Scholars Press. ISBN 0-89130-263-8. 
  • (1983) Introduction to Sahidic Coptic. Macon: Mercer University Press. 
  • (2006) Introduction to the Gothic Language. Eugene: Wipf & Stock Publishers

[edit] References

  • (1987) in David M. Golomb: Working with no Data: Semitic and Egyptian Studies Presented to Thomas O. Lambdin. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns. 
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