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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Table of contents
- COVER Front
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Diachrony in Biblical Hebrew: Linguistic Perspectives on Change and Variation
- Chapter 2: Methodological Issues in the Dating of Linguistic Forms Considerations from the Perspective of Contemporary Linguistic Theory
- Chapter 3: Biblical Hebrew as a Diachronic Continuum
- Chapter 4: Diachrony in Biblical Hebrew and a Theory of Language Change and Diffusion
- Chapter 5: Detecting Development in Biblical Hebrew Using Diachronic Typology
- Chapter 6: Historical Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew
- Chapter 7: Dwelling on Spelling
- Chapter 8: The Third-Person Masculine Plural Suffixed Pronoun -mw and Its Implications for the Dating of Biblical Hebrew Poetry
- Chapter 9: The Kethiv/Qere אוִה, Diachrony, and Dialectology
- Chapter 10: Discerning Diachronic Change in the Biblical Hebrew Verbal System
- Chapter 11: The Archaic System of Verbal Tenses in“Archaic” Biblical Poetry
- Chapter 12: Diachronic Syntactic Studies in Hebrew Pronominal Reciprocal Constructions
- Chapter 13: Syntactic Aramaisms as a Tool for the Internal Chronology of Biblical Hebrew
- Chapter 14: The “Linguistic Dating of Biblical Texts” Comments on Methodological Guidelines and Philological Procedures
- Chapter 15: The Evolution of Literary Hebrew in Biblical Times The Evidence of Pseudoclassicisms
- Chapter 16: Signs of Late Biblical Hebrew in Isaiah 40–66
- Chapter 17: Language Variation, Discourse Typology, and the Sociocultural Background of Biblical Narrative
- Chapter 18: Northern Hebrew through Time:From the Song of Deborah to the Mishnah
- Chapter 19: Diachrony in Biblical Hebrew Lexicography and Its Ramifications for Textual Analysis
- Chapter 20: Outline of Aramaic Diachrony
- Chapter 21: Diachrony in Ugaritic
- Chapter 22: Diachrony in Akkadian and the Dating of Literary Texts
- Chapter 23: Not‑So‑Random Thoughts on Linguistic Dating and Diachrony in Biblical Hebrew
- Index
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