'Murtonen's Hebrew in its West Semitic Settin will be appreciated as reference work. Nowhere else there is so much data about non-Tiberian Hebrew tradition available, together with evidence from non-Biblical sources. Both the author and those who helped him...deserve the gratitude of those who will use the results for their own research as a thesaurus of data and stimulus for the further development of Hebrew and related studies.'
Stanislav Segert, Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes.