Basics of Hebrew Accents

Mark Futato (PhD, The Catholic University of America) serves as the Robert L. Maclellan Professor of Old Testament at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando. He has published multiple books on the Psalms as well as an introduction to biblical Hebrew. His current work includes a commentary on Jonah. Futato served on the translation team for the book of Psalms in the New Living Translation, contributed study notes for The ESV Study Bible and The Spirit of the Reformation Study Bible, and contributed to the New International Dictionary of Old Testament Theology and Exegesis.

'Dr. Futato's introduction to the accentuation of the Hebrew Bible provides a good foundation for going deeper in the Hebrew text of the Tanakh. This book is pedagogically sensitive, introduces the significance of the accentual system, and illustrates the interpretive effects in biblical interpretation. The subject of this book took me back some fifty years when I was a graduate student at Hebrew University, Jerusalem.'