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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462661603321

Titolo

Diachrony in Biblical Hebrew / edited by Cynthia L. Miller-Naude and Ziony Zevit

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Winona Lake, Ind. : , : Eisenbrauns, , 2012

©2012

ISBN

1-57506-683-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (545 p.)

Collana

Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic ; ; v. 8

Disciplina

492.45

Soggetti

Linguistic change

Hebrew language - Grammar

FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY - Hebrew

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

1. The verbless clause in biblical Hebrew: linguistic approaches / edited by Cynthia L. Miller -- 2. Phonology and morphology of biblical Hebrew: an introduction / Joshua Blau -- 3. A manual of Ugaritic / Pierre Bordreuil and Dennis Pardee -- 4. Word order in the biblical Hebrew finite clause: a syntactic and pragmatic analysis of preposing / Adina Moshavi -- 5. Oath formulas in biblical Hebrew / Blane Conklin -- 6. Biblical Hebrew grammar visualized / Francis I. Andersen and A. Dean Forbes -- 7. Time and the biblical Hebrew verb: the expression of tense, aspect, and modality in biblical Hebrew / John A. Cook -- 8. Diachrony in biblical Hebrew / Cynthia L. Miller Naude and Ziony Zevit.

Sommario/riassunto

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. --