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Title: not a serious linguistic work
Review: Prof. Fried is to be respected for the amount of time spent on this work and for his creative approach to Hebrew studies. However, he is unfamiliar with any of the principles of historical linguistics. He wants to suggest that every Hebrew word can be analyzed based on individual meanings of each letter. Unfortunately, the idea that each individual letter has a discrete meaning is wildly improbable. Prof. Fried also compares Hebrew words with Indo-European counterparts, when no good scholar belives that Hebrew is genetically related to the IE languages. This book is worth looking at for the original views presented, and Prof. Fried is certainly offering the book at a reasonable price. However, the uninitiated scholar should be warned not to buy into the etymologies or methodology presented. Much better is Ernest Klein's Etymological Dictionary of Hebrew, or the etymologies presented in Even Shoshan's Hebrew-Hebrew dictionary.
