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Thomas Oden Lambdin

Thomas Oden Lambdin

American linguist (1927–2020)

Thomas Oden Lambdin (October 31, 1927 – May 8, 2020) was an American linguist and scholar of the Semitic and Egyptian languages.[1] He received his Ph.D. in 1952 from the Johns Hopkins University Department of Near Eastern Studies, where his advisor was William Foxwell Albright; his dissertation was on "Egyptian Loanwords and Transcriptions in the Ancient Semitic Languages."[2] He was appointed as an associate professor of Semitic Languages at Harvard University in 1964.[3] He retired from Harvard in 1983 and served as Professor Emeritus until his death.[4] He was admired not only for his research[5] and his "tireless teaching",[6] but for the quality of his introductory textbooks on Biblical Hebrew, Coptic, Ge'ez and Gothic language. His Festschrift, Working with No Data: Semitic and Egyptian Studies Presented to Thomas O. Lambdin (ed. David M. Golomb and Susan T. Hollis; Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1987) includes a full bibliography of his publications, as well as chapters by John Huehnergard and Richard J. Clifford about their experiences as his students[6]

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. S2CID 161100821.
  • Thomas O. Lambdin. (1971). Introduction to Biblical Hebrew. Darton,Longman and Todd Ltd. ISBN 978-0-232-51369-1.
  • Thomas O. Lambdin (1978). Introduction to Classical Ethiopic. Harvard Semitic Studies 24. Missoula, Montana: Scholars Press. ISBN 0-89130-263-8.
  • Thomas O. Lambdin (1983). Introduction to Sahidic Coptic. Macon: Mercer University Press.
  • Thomas O. Lambdin (2006). Introduction to the Gothic Language. Eugene: Wipf & Stock.

References

  1. [1]
    "Thomas Oden Lambdin". Cremation Society of New Hamphsire. Retrieved May 1, 2021.[dead link]
  2. [2]
    Freedman, David Noel (1975). The Published Works of William Foxwell Albright: A Comprehensive Bibliography. Boston: American Schools of Oriental Research. p. 223.
  3. [3]
    "Six Linguists Named To Strengthen Dept". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved April 8, 2017.
  4. [4]
    "Semitic Scholar Lambdin To Leave University Post". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved February 11, 2012.
  5. [5]
    "Linguist Lambdin". Colin D Smith blog. Retrieved April 8, 2017.
  6. [6]
    Smith, Mark S. (1989). ""Working With No Data": Semitic and Egyptian Studies Presented to Thomas O. Lambdin". Hebrew Studies. 30: 134–.


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