Hebrew in the Second Temple Period

Steven E. Fassberg, Ph.D. (1984), Harvard University, is Casper Levias Professor of Ancient Semitic Languages at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His publications include Studies in the Syntax of Biblical Hebrew (1994), and The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Challa (2010).Prof. Moshe Bar-Asher, Ph.D. (1976), Professor Emeritus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; President, Academy of the Hebrew Language. His publications include: Leshonot Rishonim: Studies in the Language of the Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Aramaic (2012) and Studies in Classical Hebrew (forthcoming). Ruth A. Clements, Th.D. (1997), Harvard University Divinity School is Head of Publications at the Hebrew University’s Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and co-editor of Text, Thought, and Practice in Qumran and Early Christianity (2010).

• Gary A. Anderson, How Does Almsgiving Purge Sins?Moshe Bar-Asher, Mistaken Repetitions or Double Readings?Haim Dihi, Linguistic Innovations in Ben Sira Manuscript FMats Eskhult, Relative ha-: A Late Biblical Hebrew Phenomenon?Steven Fassberg, Shifts in Word Order in the Hebrew of the Second Temple PeriodGregor Geiger, Plene Writing of the Qōṭēl Pattern in the Dead Sea ScrollsPierre Van Hecke, Constituent Order in היה Clauses in the Hebrew of the Dead Sea ScrollsAvi Hurvitz, Terminological Modifications in Biblical Genealogical Records and Their Potential Chronological ImplicationsJan Joosten, Imperative Clauses Containing a Temporal Phrase, and the Study of Diachronic Syntax in Ancient HebrewReinhard Kratz, Laws of Wisdom: Sapiential Traits in the Rule of the Community (1QS 5–7)Noam Mizrahi, Aspects of Poetic Stylization in Second Temple Hebrew: A Linguistic Comparison of the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice with Ancient PiyyuṭMatthew Morgenstern, The Literary Use of Biblical Language in the Works of the TannaimElisha Qimron, The Third Personal Masculine Plural Pronoun and Pronominal Suffix in Early HebrewJean- Sébastien Rey, On the Prepositional Object with bet in Qumran HebrewUrsula Schattner-Rieser, From the “Foundation” of the Temple to the “Foundation” of a Community: On the Semantic Evolution of *ʾUŠ (אוש) in the Dead Sea ScrollsDavid Talshir, Syndetic Binomials in Second Temple Period HebrewEmanuel Tov, Scribal Features of Two Qumran ScrollsAlexey (Eliyahu) Yuditsky, The Non-Construct כל/הכל in the Dead Sea ScrollsFrancesco Zanella, Between “Righteousness” and “Alms”: A Semantic Study of the Lexeme צדקה in the Dead Sea ScrollsTamar Zewi, Content Clauses in the Dead Sea Scrolls