What distinguishes this series from other available resources is the detailed and comprehensive attention paid to the Hebrew text of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. Each handbook provides a convenient pedagogical and reference tool that explains the form and syntax of the biblical text, offers guidance for deciding between competing semantic analyses, engages important text-critical debates, and addresses questions relating to the Hebrew text that are frequently overlooked or ignored by standard commentaries. Beyond serving as succinct and accessible analytic keys, the volumes in this series also reflect recent advances in scholarship on Hebrew grammar and linguistics and are informed by current discussions within Old Testament Studies. These handbooks prove themselves indispensable tools for anyone committed to a deep reading of these biblical texts in Hebrew.

This handbook in the Baylor Handbook on the Hebrew Bible series provides students of Hebrew with the translation of Genesis 37–50 paired with an exhaustive word by word morphological analysis of the text. Baker and Riley perform a syntactical investigation on one of the most commonly known biblical books. Genesis 37–50 enables a linguistic understanding of the Old Testament Hebrew text through solid contextual interpretation.