Diachrony in Biblical Hebrew
Title | Diachrony in Biblical Hebrew PDF eBook |
Author | Cynthia Miller-Naudé |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 545 |
Release | 2012-10-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1575066831 |
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 development of Biblical Hebrew. For Hebraists and linguists interested in the historical development of the Hebrew language, it is an essential collection of studies that address the language’s development during the Iron Age (in its various subdivisions), the Neo-Babylonian and Persian periods, and the Early Hellenistic period. Written for both “text people” and “language people,” this is the first book to address established Historical Linguistics theory as it applies to the study of Hebrew and to focus on the methodologies most appropriate for Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic. The book provides exemplary case studies of orthography, lexicography, morphology, syntax, language contact, dialectology, and sociolinguistics and, because of its depth of coverage, has broad implications for the linguistic dating of Biblical texts. The presentations are rounded out by useful summary histories of linguistic diachrony in Aramaic, Ugaritic, and Akkadian, the three languages related to and considered most crucial for Biblical research.
Advances in Biblical Hebrew Linguistics
Title | Advances in Biblical Hebrew Linguistics PDF eBook |
Author | Adina Mosak Moshavi |
Publisher | Linguistic Studies in Ancient |
Pages | 411 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 9781575064819 |
Based on papers presented at the 16th World Congress of Jewish Studies.
Ancient Hebrew Periodization and the Language of the Book of Jeremiah
Title | Ancient Hebrew Periodization and the Language of the Book of Jeremiah PDF eBook |
Author | Aaron D. Hornkohl |
Publisher | Brill Academic Pub |
Pages | 517 |
Release | 2014-04 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9789004269644 |
In this book, Aaron Hornkohl defends the diachronic approach to Biblical Hebrew and the linguistic dating of biblical texts. Applying these methodologies to the biblical book of Jeremiah, he dates the work on the basis of its linguistic profile, determining that, though composite, Jeremiah is likely a product of the transitional time between the First and Second Temple Periods.0Hornkohl also contributes to unraveling Jeremiah’s complicated literary development, arguing on the basis of language that its 'short edition', as reflected in the book’s Old Greek translation, predates that 'supplementary material' preserved in the Masoretic edition but unparalleled in the Greek. Nevertheless, he concludes that neither is written in Late Biblical Hebrew proper.
The Relative Clause in Biblical Hebrew
Title | The Relative Clause in Biblical Hebrew PDF eBook |
Author | Robert D. Holmstedt |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 472 |
Release | 2016-04-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1575064200 |
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 used to introduce Hebrew relative clauses and a detailed presentation of the relevant comparative Semitic data, this work also carefully navigates the challenges of analyzing a “dead” language and offers a methodological road map for the analysis of any feature of Biblical Hebrew grammar. With the appendixes of relative clause data, including the author’s English translations, the work aims at comprehensiveness, exhaustiveness, and full transparency in data, method, and theory.
Advances in the Study of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic
Title | Advances in the Study of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin J. Noonan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2020-02-18 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 0310596017 |
Advances in the Study of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic by Benjamin J. Noonan examines issues of interest in the current world of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic scholarship and their impact on understanding the Old Testament; it provides an accessible introduction for students, pastors, professors, and commentators to understand these important issues.
Historical Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew
Title | Historical Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Rezetko |
Publisher | Society of Biblical Lit |
Pages | 721 |
Release | 2014-12-15 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1628370467 |
!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" html meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="content-type" body A philologically robust approach to the history of ancient Hebrew In this book the authors work toward constructing an approach to the history of ancient Hebrew that overcomes the chasm of academic specialization. The authors illustrate how cross-textual variable analysis and variation analysis advance research on Biblical Hebrew and correct theories based on extra-linguistic assumptions, intuitions, and ideologies by focusing on variation of forms/uses in the Masoretic text and variation between the Masoretic text and other textual traditions. Features: A unique approach that examines the nature of the sources and the description of their language together Extensive bibliography for further research Tables of linguistic variables and parallels
Synchronic Or Diachronic?
Title | Synchronic Or Diachronic? PDF eBook |
Author | Johannes Cornelis De Moor |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 282 |
Release | |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9789004103429 |
In Old Testament exegesis a gap is widening between the adherents of the 'diachronic', historical-critical approach and those who out of dissatisfaction with both the results and the methods of this 'classical' approach opt for a wide variety of 'synchronic' approaches. The Ninth Joint Meeting of the Dutch 'Oudtestamentisch Werkgezelschap' and the British 'Society for Old Testament Study', held at Kampen 28-31 August 1994, brought together partisans from both camps who engaged in a most interesting and fruitful debate on one of the major methodological issues confronting modern Old Testament scholarship. This volume contains the papers read as well as some reports from the workshops. With indices of texts and subjects.