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The one good thing is that this book gives excellent help with such difficulties as using dictionaries such as Brown, Driver Briggs; something that is essential when progressing further (and completing the translations with in the book!).
There are several better books on the market and when comparing it with that written by Weingreen in 1959 it is quite inferior on an academic and pedagogical level.
More advanced grammars are need for the serious student of Biblical Hebrew (see Joüon-Muraoka; Waltke-O'Connor; Gesenius, etc.). But I keep Seow at hand for quick reminders and explanations for my students.
Unfortunately, many teachers seem to think this book serves as an intro text. Seow apparantly thought by adding exercises to the end of every chapter that it could serve this purpose, as well. I disagree. The order in which concepts are presented does not facilitate quick and easy access to the Hebrew text. Seow gives all of the minutiae on a given concept before moving on. One example should suffice: verbs are not even addressed until chapter VIII, before which nouns in all their forms (geminate, segolate, mem-prefix nouns, tav-prefix nouns, etc.), adjective inflection and patterns (qatol, qatel, qatal, qall, etc.), and an intro to BDB and 'Reading Markers and Pausal Forms' have all been addressed ad nauseum.
By contrast, A First Hebrew Primer by Simon, Resnikoff, and Motzkin serves as a fantastic intro text. It's laid out in a manner which gets students into the Hebrew Scriptures much quicker. This may seem like a small thing, but increases the level of interest in the student tremendously.
A Grammar for Biblical Hebrew receives four stars because it's a pretty good elementary grammar. If you're looking for an intro text, though, please look first at A First Hebrew Primer. It will be worth your time. Then you can use Seow's book to supplement what the Primer doesn't deal with as completely.
Seow does not drill the student enough toward confidence in reading whole sentences and extended passages.
Seow provides excellent excurses about the BDB lexicon, reading markers and pausal forms, nomenclature for verbal patterns and root types, reference grammars, poetic Hebrew, and orientation to the Hebrew Bible.
I do recommend Seow's book as a review text. Because of the steep verb introductions, I do not recommend it as the main text for students who have no previous familiarity with Hebrew or any other Semitic language.
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