Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- SERIES PREFACE -- A FAREWELL WITH A FUTURE -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1: THE SEMANTIC STRUCTURE OF BIBLICAL HEBREW -- CHAPTER 2: PIONEERS AND 'NO THROUGH ROADS': THE STORY OF THE EARLY HEBREW-ENGLISH LEXICONS -- CHAPTER 3: THE PESHITTA RENDERING OF PSALM 25: SPELLING, SYNONYMS, AND SYNTAX -- CHAPTER 4: OBSERVATIONS ON THE MODE OF TRANSLATION IN THE SYROHEXAPLA -- CHAPTER 5: THE HWĀ QĀTEL AND HWĀ QĔTĪL CONSTRUCTIONS IN THE PESHITTA OLD TESTAMENT -- CHAPTER 6: THE SEMANTICS OF SYRIAC MOTION VERBS IN EXODUS CHAPTERS 1-19, PART II -- CHAPTER 7: LEXICALIZING THE SYRIAC PREPOSITIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX