Biblical Hebrew In Its Northwest Semitic Setting

Author : Steven E. Fassberg,Steven Ellis Fassberg,Avi Hurvitz
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1575061163

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Biblical Hebrew in Its Northwest Semitic Setting by Steven E. Fassberg,Steven Ellis Fassberg,Avi Hurvitz Pdf

In 1961 William L. Morgan published "The Hebrew Language in Its Northwest Semitic Background", in which he presented a state-of-the-art description of the linguistic milieu out of which Biblical Hebrew developed. Moran stressed the features found in earlier Northwest Semitic languages that are similar to Hebrew and he demonstrated how the study of those languages sheds light on Biblical Hebrew. Since Moran wrote, our knowledge of both the Hebrew of the biblical period and of Northwest Semitic has increased considerably. In the lights of new epigraphic finds and the significant advances in the fields of Biblical Hebrew and Northwest Semitic in the past four decades, the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem convened an international research group during the 2001-2002 academic year on the topic "Biblical Hebrew in Its Northwest Semitic setting: Typological and Historical Perspectives." The volume presents the fruits of the year-long collaboration and contains twenty articles based on lectures given during the year by members of the groups and invited guests. A wide array of subjects are discussed, all of which have implications for the study of Biblical Hebrew and Northwest Semitic.

Author : Mark S. Smith
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004370074

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The Origins and Development of the Waw-consecutive: Northwest Semitic Evidence from Ugarit to Qumran by Mark S. Smith Pdf

Preliminary Material -- Early Extra-biblical Evidence -- The Waw-Consecutive in Hebrew Prose -- The Waw-Consecutive in Qumran Literature -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Texts -- Index of Authors -- Index of Subjects.

Author : A. Murtonen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Comparative linguistics
ISBN : 9004072454

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Hebrew in Its West Semitic Setting by A. Murtonen Pdf

Author : Aimo Edvard Murtonen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Comparative linguistics
ISBN : OCLC:606069457

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Hebrew in its West Semitic setting by Aimo Edvard Murtonen Pdf

Author : Chip Hardy,Matthew McAffee
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781462776740

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Going Deeper with Biblical Hebrew by Chip Hardy,Matthew McAffee Pdf

Learning any language is no small task, not least one that sounds as unusual as Hebrew does to most English speakers’ ears. Going Deeper with Biblical Hebrew primarily aims to equip second-year grammar students of biblical Hebrew to read the Hebrew Scriptures. Using a variety of linguistic approaches, H. H. Hardy II and Matthew McAffee offer a comprehensive and up-to-date textbook for professors and students.

Author : Stefan Weninger
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1298 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110251586

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The Semitic Languages by Stefan Weninger Pdf

The handbook The Semitic Languages offers a comprehensive reference tool for Semitic Linguistics in its broad sense. It is not restricted to comparative Grammar, although it covers also comparative aspects, including classification. By comprising a chapter on typology and sections with sociolinguistic focus and language contact, the conception of the book aims at a rather complete, unbiased description of the state of the art in Semitics. Articles on individual languages and dialects give basic facts as location, numbers of speakers, scripts, numbers of extant texts and their nature, attestation where appropriate, and salient features of the grammar and lexicon of the respective variety. The handbook is the most comprehensive treatment of the Semitic language family since many decades.

Author : Ronald James Williams,John C. Beckman
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780802094292

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Williams' Hebrew Syntax by Ronald James Williams,John C. Beckman Pdf

Developed by Ronald J. Williams over fifteen years in a formal course on Hebrew syntax at the University of Toronto, Williams Hebrew Syntax has since been widely used as an intermediate textbook in biblical Hebrew. First published in 1967, with a second edition issued in 1976, this substantially revised and expanded third edition is designed as an intermediate textbook for students of Biblical Hebrew. The guide explains the meanings of morphological categories and the way that words, phrases, and clauses relate to one another to create meaning. Expanded to meet the demands of contemporary classroom use, John C. Beckmans third edition also functions as a grammatical reference, providing updated analysis and thoroughly up-to-date cross-references to literature in the field. By providing interlinear translations and final translations for examples, the latest edition better enables students with modest vocabulary and knowledge of parsing to understand the examples and grammatical points.

Author : William M. Schniedewind
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300176681

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A Social History of Hebrew by William M. Schniedewind Pdf

Considering classical Hebrew from the standpoint of a writing system as opposed to vernacular speech, Schniedewind demonstrates how the Israelites' long history of migration, war exile, and other momentous events is reflected in Hebrew's linguistic evolution.

Author : John A. Cook
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575066813

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Time and the Biblical Hebrew Verb by John A. Cook Pdf

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 approach is distinguished from the traditional approaches by its modern linguistic foundation. One distinguishing sign is his employment of the phrase “aspect prominent” to describe the Biblical Hebrew verbal system. As with almost any of the world’s verbal systems, this aspect-prominent system can express a wide range of aspectual, tensed, and modal meanings. In chap. 3, he argues that each of the forms can be semantically identified with a general meaning and that the expressions of specific aspectual, tensed, and modal meanings by each form are explicable with reference to its general meaning. After a decade of research and creative thinking, the author has come to frame his discussion not with the central question of “Tense or Aspect?” but with the question “What is the range of meaning for a given form, and what sort of contextual factors (syntagm, discourse, etc.) help us to understand this range in relation to a general meaning for the form?” In chap. 4 Cook addresses long-standing issues involving interaction between the semantics of verbal forms and their discourse pragmatic functions. He also proposes a theory of discourse modes for Biblical Hebrew. These discourse modes account for various temporal relationships that are found among successive clauses in Biblical Hebrew. Cook’s work addresses old questions with a fresh approach that is sure to provoke dialogue and new research.

Author : Cynthia Miller-Naudé,Ziony Zevit
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575066837

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Diachrony in Biblical Hebrew by Cynthia Miller-Naudé,Ziony Zevit Pdf

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.

Author : Hélène M. Dallaire
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575064000

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The Syntax of Volitives in Biblical Hebrew and Amarna Canaanite Prose by Hélène M. Dallaire Pdf

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 of the phonology, morphology, and syntax of the Semitic languages has increased substantially. Dallaire focuses primarily on prose texts in Biblical Hebrew and Amarna Canaanite in which the verbal system (morphemes, syntax) expresses nuances of wishes, desires, requests, and commands. According to her, volitional concepts are found in every language and are expressed through verbal morphemes, syntagmas, intonation, syntax, and other linguistic means. The Syntax of Volitives in Biblical Hebrew and Amarna Canaanite Prose attempts to answer the following questions: Do volitives function in a similar way in Biblical Hebrew and Amarna Canaanite? Where and why is there overlap in morphology and syntax between these two languages? What morphological and syntactical differences exist between the volitional expressions of the languages? In attempting to answer these questions, the author bears in mind the fact that, within each of these two languages, scribes from different areas used specific dialectal and scribal traditions (for example, northern versus southern, peripheral versus central).

Author : Tadeusz Penar
Publisher : GBPress Pont. Ist.Biblicum
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 8876533281

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Northwest Semitic Philology and the Hebrew Fragments of Ben Sira by Tadeusz Penar Pdf

Author : John Huehnergard,Na’ama Pat-El
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429657825

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The Semitic Languages by John Huehnergard,Na’ama Pat-El Pdf

The Semitic Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the individual languages and language clusters within this language family, from their origins in antiquity to their present-day forms. This second edition has been fully revised, with new chapters and a wealth of additional material. New features include the following: • new introductory chapters on Proto-Semitic grammar and Semitic linguistic typology • an additional chapter on the place of Semitic as a subgroup of Afro-Asiatic, and several chapters on modern forms of Arabic, Aramaic and Ethiopian Semitic • text samples of each individual language, transcribed into the International Phonetic Alphabet, with standard linguistic word-by-word glossing as well as translation • new maps and tables present information visually for easy reference. This unique resource is the ideal reference for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of linguistics and language. It will be of interest to researchers and anyone with an interest in historical linguistics, linguistic typology, linguistic anthropology and language development.

Author : H. H. Hardy,Joseph Lam,Eric D. Reymond
Publisher : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781614910763

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'Like 'Ilu Are You Wise' by H. H. Hardy,Joseph Lam,Eric D. Reymond Pdf

This volume honors Dennis G. Pardee, Henry Crown Professor of Hebrew Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago and one of the preeminent experts in Northwest Semitic languages and literatures, particularly Ugaritic studies. The thirty-seven essays by colleagues and former students reflect the wide range of Professor Pardee's research interests and include, among other topics, new readings of inscriptions, studies of poetic structure, and investigations of Late Bronze Age society.

Author : W. Randall Garr,Steven E. Fassberg
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575063720

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A Handbook of Biblical Hebrew by W. Randall Garr,Steven E. Fassberg Pdf

Volume 1: Periods, Corpora, and Reading Traditions; Volume 2: Selected Texts Biblical Hebrew is studied worldwide by university students, seminarians, and the educated public. It is also studied, almost universally, through a single prism—that of the Tiberian Masoretic tradition, which is the best attested and most widely available tradition of Biblical Hebrew. Thanks in large part to its endorsement by Maimonides, it also became the most prestigious vocalization tradition in the Middle Ages. For most, Biblical Hebrew is synonymous with Tiberian Biblical Hebrew. There are, however, other vocalization traditions. The Babylonian tradition was widespread among Jews around the close of the first millennium CE; the tenth-century Karaite scholar al-Qirqisani reports that the Babylonian pronunciation was in use in Babylonia, Iran, the Arabian peninsula, and Yemen. And despite the fact that Yemenite Jews continued using Babylonian manuscripts without interruption from generation to generation, European scholars learned of them only toward the middle of the nineteenth century. Decades later, manuscripts pointed with the Palestinian vocalization system were rediscovered in the Cairo Genizah. Thereafter came the discovery of manuscripts written according to the Tiberian-Palestinian system and, perhaps most importantly, the texts found in caves alongside the Dead Sea. What is still lacking, however, is a comprehensive and systematic overview of the different periods, sources, and traditions of Biblical Hebrew. This handbook provides students and the public with easily accessible, reliable, and current information in English concerning the multi-faceted nature of Biblical Hebrew. Noted scholars in each of the various fields contributed their expertise. The result is the present two-volume work. The first contains an in-depth introduction to each tradition; and the second presents sample accompanying texts that exemplify the descriptions of the parallel introductory chapters.