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Phonology and Morphology of Biblical Hebrew
An Introduction
Av Joshua Blau
Inbunden, 2010
1110 kr
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More than 80 years have passed since Bauer and Leander’s historical grammar of Biblical Hebrew was published, and many advances in comparative historical grammar have been made during the interim. Joshua Blau, who has for much of his life been associated with the Academy of the Hebrew Language in …
Word Order in the Biblical Hebrew Finite Clause
Inbunden, 2010
821 kr
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Over the last 40 years, the study of word-order variation has become a prominent and fruitful field of research. Researchers of linguistic typology have found that every language permits a variety of word-order constructions, with subject, verb, and objects occupying varying positions relative to …
Biblical Hebrew Grammar Visualized
Av Francis I. Andersen, A. Dean Forbes
Inbunden, 2012
1186 kr
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In Biblical Hebrew Grammar Visualized, Andersen and Forbes approach the grammar of Biblical Hebrew from the perspective of corpus linguistics. Their pictorial representations of the clauses making up the biblical texts show the grammatical functions (subject, object, and so on) and semantic roles …
Diachrony in Biblical Hebrew
Av Cynthia Miller-Naudé, Ziony Zevit
Inbunden, 2012
715 kr
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Diachrony in Biblical Hebrew is an indispensable publication for biblical scholars, whose interpretations of scriptures must engage the dates when texts were first composed and recorded, and for scholars of language, who will want to read these essays for the latest perspectives on the historical …
Time and the Biblical Hebrew Verb
The Expression of Tense, Aspect, and Modality in Biblical Hebrew
Av John A. Cook
Inbunden, 2012
1355 kr
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In this book John Cook interacts with the range of approaches to the perennial questions on the Biblical Hebrew verb in a fair-minded approach. Some of his answers may appear deceptively traditional, such as his perfective-imperfective identification of the qatal–yiqtol opposition. However, his …
Syntax of Volitives in Biblical Hebrew and Amarna Canaanite Prose
Inbunden, 2014
543 kr
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During the past century, numerous books and articles have appeared on the verbal system of Semitic languages. Thanks to the discovery of Ugaritic texts, Akkadian tablets, Canaanite letters found at Tell el-Amarna in Egypt, Hebrew and Aramaic inscriptions, and the Dead Sea Scrolls, our understanding …
Time and the Biblical Hebrew Verb
The Expression of Tense, Aspect, and Modality in Biblical Hebrew
Av John A. Cook
Häftad, 2016
703 kr
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In this book John Cook interacts with the range of approaches to the perennial questions on the Biblical Hebrew verb in a fair-minded approach. Some of his answers may appear deceptively traditional, such as his perfective-imperfective identification of the qatal–yiqtol opposition. However, his …
Word Order in the Biblical Hebrew Finite Clause
Häftad, 2016
770 kr
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Over the last 40 years, the study of word-order variation has become a prominent and fruitful field of research. Researchers of linguistic typology have found that every language permits a variety of word-order constructions, with subject, verb, and objects occupying varying positions relative to …
Advances in Biblical Hebrew Linguistics
Data, Methods, and Analyses
Av Adina Moshavi, Tania Notarius
Inbunden, 2017
765 kr
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In recent decades, the study of Biblical Hebrew has profited enormously from the application of methodologies derived from general linguistics. During the 16th World Congress of Jewish Studies, Adina Moshavi and Tania Notarius organized sessions devoted to exploring new developments in Biblical …
Judging the Judges
A Narrative Appraisal Analysis
Inbunden, 2019
1872 kr
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The book of Judges is full of characters of ambivalent moral integrity and acts of dubious propriety, such as Jael’s murder of Sisera and the sacrifice of Jephthah’s daughter. And yet the terse narrative and the reticent narrator frequently leave the ethical character of these actions in doubt. In …
Non-Semitic Loanwords in the Hebrew Bible
A Lexicon of Language Contact
Inbunden, 2019
1635 kr
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Ancient Palestine served as a land bridge between the continents of Asia, Africa, and Europe, and as a result, the ancient Israelites frequently interacted with speakers of non-Semitic languages, including Egyptian, Greek, Hittite and Luwian, Hurrian, Old Indic, and Old Iranian. This linguistic …
Morphophonological Development of the Classical Aramaic Verb
Inbunden, 2019
2092 kr
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This book offers a diachronic and synchronic account of the verb morphology and phonology of Aramaic from its initial appearance early in the first millennium B.C.E. until the second millennium C.E. Aramaic, a subfamily of Semitic, is closely related to Hebrew and the other Canaanite languages; …
Aspect, Communicative Appeal, and Temporal Meaning in Biblical Hebrew Verbal Forms
Inbunden, 2022
967 kr
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This book provides a new explanation for what has long been a challenge for scholars of Biblical Hebrew: how to understand the expression of verbal tense and aspect.Working from a representative text corpus, combined with database queries of specific usages and surveys of examples discussed in the …
Focus Construction with kî ʾim in Biblical Hebrew
Inbunden, 2023
1119 kr
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This study uses modern linguistic theory to analyze a frequently recurring syntactic phenomenon in the Hebrew Bible that has thus far resisted explanation: כי אם.The combination of the two particles כי and אם produces a construction that is notoriously difficult to describe, analyze syntactically, …
Verbless Clause in Biblical Hebrew
Linguistic Approaches
Inbunden, 1999
634 kr
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Thirty years after seminal studies by Francis I. Andersen and Jacob Hoftijzer, members of the 1996 SBL section on Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew gathered to reconsider the topic of the verbless clause in Hebrew. The results are published here, demonstrating the gains made in the interim and …
Manual of Ugaritic
Av Pierre Bordreuil, Dennis Pardee
Inbunden, 2009
765 kr
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Prepared by two of the best-known scholars doing research on the language and texts of the ancient city of Ugarit (modern Tell Ras Shamra), A Manual of Ugaritic was first published in French in 2004 in two volumes. Eisenbrauns is pleased to make it available now in a corrected and updated version, …
Oath Formulas in Biblical Hebrew
Inbunden, 2011
409 kr
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The eponymous protagonist of the biblical story of Ruth, a Moabite widow, is so desperate to follow her widowed mother-in-law back to Israel that she swears an oath. Regardless of the translation one may choose, the sense is the same: Ruth promises to stick by Naomi’s side for at least as long as …
Relative Clause in Biblical Hebrew
Inbunden, 2016
765 kr
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This book is the result of 15 years of research on the ancient Hebrew relative clause as well as the effective application of modern linguistic approaches to an ancient language corpus. Though the ostensible topic is the relative clause, including a full discussion of the various relative words …
Language Change in the Wake of Empire
Syriac in Its Greco-Roman Context
Inbunden, 2016
654 kr
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It is well documented that one of the primary catalysts of intense language contact is the expansion of empire. This is true not only of recent history, but it is equally applicable to the more remote past. An exemplary case (or better: cases) of this involves Aramaic. Due to the expansions of …
