A note on Hebrew transcription

The following provides an explanation for how transliteration is used throughout this book. Our current understanding of how Classical Hebrew was pronounced came to us from the Tiberians who added diacritics to unvocalized text. These diacritics are necessary for discerning some (though not all) morphological details. The following table provides a guide for how the Hebrew text has been transcribed. It is loosely based on the Encyclopaedia Judaica recommendations for scientific transliteration of Hebrew and Semitic texts.