Diachrony in Biblical Hebrew

Published by Penn State University Press 2012

Diachrony in Biblical Hebrew

Edited by: Cynthia Miller-Naudé and Ziony Zevit

Volume 8 in the series Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781575066837

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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 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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Part 1: Introduction
Diachrony in Biblical Hebrew: Linguistic Perspectives on Change and Variation Cynthia L. Miller-Naudé Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part 2: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives on Diachrony
Methodological Issues in the Dating of Linguistic Forms: Considerations from the Perspective of Contemporary Linguistic Theory B. Elan Dresher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Biblical Hebrew as a Diachronic Continuum T. Givón Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
Diachrony in Biblical Hebrew and a Theory of Language Change and Diffusion Jacobus A. Naudé Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
Detecting Development in Biblical Hebrew Using Diachronic Typology John A. Cook Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Historical Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew Robert D. Holmstedt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
Part 3: Examining Diachrony in Biblical Hebrew
Orthographic Features
Dwelling on Spelling A. Dean Forbes and Francis I. Andersen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
Morphological Features
The Third-Person Masculine Plural Suffixed Pronoun -mw and Its Implications for the Dating of Biblical Hebrew Poetry Yigal Bloch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
The Kethiv/Qere הִוא , Diachrony, and Dialectology Steven E. Fassberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
Discerning Diachronic Change in the Biblical Hebrew Verbal System Martin Ehrensvärd Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
The Archaic System of Verbal Tenses in “Archaic” Biblical Poetry Tania Notarius Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Syntactic Features
Diachronic Syntactic Studies in Hebrew Pronominal Reciprocal Constructions Elitzur A. Bar-Asher Siegal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Syntactic Aramaisms as a Tool for the Internal Chronology of Biblical Hebrew Naʿama Pat-El Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Lexical Features
The “Linguistic Dating of Biblical Texts”: Comments on Methodological Guidelines and Philological Procedures Avi Hurvitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
The Evolution of Literary Hebrew in Biblical Times: The Evidence of Pseudo-classicisms Jan Joosten Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
Signs of Late Biblical Hebrew in Isaiah 40–66 Shalom M. Paul Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
Sociological and Dialectal Considerations
Language Variation, Discourse Typology, and the Sociocultural Background of Biblical Narrative Frank H. Polak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
Northern Hebrew through Time: From the Song of Deborah to the Mishnah Gary A. Rendsburg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
Text-Critical Considerations
Diachrony in Biblical Hebrew Lexicography and Its Ramifications for Textual Analysis Chaim Cohen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	361
Part 4: Comparative Semitic Perspectives on Diachrony
Outline of Aramaic Diachrony Michael Sokoloff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	379
Diachrony in Ugaritic Joseph Lam and Dennis Pardee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	407
Diachrony in Akkadian and the Dating of Literary Texts N. J. C. Kouwenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	433
Part 5: Afterword
Not‑So‑Random Thoughts Concerning Linguistic Dating and Diachrony in Biblical Hebrew Ziony Zevit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	455
Indexes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	491

Language: English
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Pages
- Main content: 544

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Published: October 25, 2012
ISBN: 9781575066837