"This new edition broadly follows Davidson's ordering of the topics, and not infrequently its treatment of individual constructions. But, as is only to be expected after so long an interval, a good number of modifications have had to be made to take account not only of subsequent research on points of detail but of modern trends in language study as a whole. Some of the modifications were adumbrated in Dr. James Martin's recent new edition of its companion volume Davidson's Introductory Hebrew Grammar, 27th Edition (T&T Clark, 1993); others go beyond what he, understandably considered appropriate for beginners.

In my view the more advanced students for whom this textbook is intended should now be ready for these. I hope that the mixture of the old and the new which results, fairly represents current thinking in biblical Hebrew syntax in the last decade of the twentieth century." -J.C.L. Gibson