Brill, 2024. — x, 239 p. — (Ancient Languages and Civilizations 7). Since the translation of the Septuagint in the 3rd century BCE, scholars have attempted to identify the stones that populate the biblical text. This study rejects the long-standing reliance on ancient translations for identifying biblical stones. Despite the evident contradictions and historical...
Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2000. — 294 p. — (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 270). Dieser Band hat die Syntax des Althebräischen zum Thema. Vermutlich ließe sich schnell Einigkeit darüber erzielen, was unter ‘Althebräisch’ zu verstehen ist: die Sprache, die in den Königreichen von Israel und Juda gesprochen wurde, bevor diese ihre Eigenstaatlichkeit verloren. Israel wurde 722 v....
Peeters Publishers, 1995. — 89 p. — (Orbis, Supplementa 3). The contacts between Hebrew and languages with which its speakers (or, at certain periods, rather its users) established cultural relations are not at all a new subject of study. I for my part have attempted to make contributions to that field on a few occasions, mainly in my monograph L'hebreu et ses rapports avec le...
Peeters, 2021. — XXXVIII, 440 p. — (Études Bibliques. Nouvelle Série 87). Dieses Buch über die Fragesätze des Alten Testaments möchte eine Hilfestellung für die sachgemäße Auslegung biblischer Texte bieten. Die Interrogativsätze geraten zwar immer wieder in den Blick, da fast jeder Textabschnitt des AT eine oder mehrere Fragen enthält, doch wurden sie in ihrer ganzen Breite...
Peeters Press, 1998. — XIX, 151 p. — (Ancient Near Eastern Studies Supplement Series 6). Since 1995 five centres in Europe (Cambridge, Firenze, Leuven, Oxford, and Roma) have been engaged in a joint research project, Semantics of Ancient Hebrew Database. The project aims at building an ongoing database which consists of a critical and exhaustive assessment of lexico-semantic...
Peeters Publishers, 1988. — XXV, 465 p. — (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 28). It is the first time that the Israelite anthroponomy of the biblical period is studied on the basis of all available sources. Furthermore, for the first time attention is paid not only to the morphology and the grammatical structure of the proper names, but also to the prosopography. The work...
Breslau: Schletter’sche Buchhandlung, 1873. — 140 p. Diese beiden kleinen Grammatiken wurden von mir in rabbinischen Gebrauche für die Studirenden an unser zu wohl geeignet, eher zu vermehren als zu vermindern die Danz (gegen 1700) und Andere vermehrten die Verwirrung noch um Vieles, indem sie die thalmudische Sprache, welche chaldäisch ist, und die rabbinische oder...
Brill, 2014. — 264 p. — (Studies in Jewish History and Culture 46). A Universal Art. Hebrew Grammar Across Disciplines and Faiths reflects on medieval and early modern Hebrew linguistics as a discipline that crossed geographic and religious borders and linked up with a plethora of scholarly activities, from Judaeo-Arabic Bible translations to the Renaissance search for the...
Brill, 2000. — xii, 593 p. — (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 32). One of the earliest Karaite grammatical texts that have come down to us from the Middle Ages, is the Diqduq, by ’Abū Ya‘qūb Yūsuf ibn Nūḥ, of Jerusalem. It is a grammatical commentary on the Hebrew Bible. This volume presents a critical edition of a large section of that Hebrew grammatical text,...
K.Van Gorcum & Co, 1996. — 366 p. — (Studia Semitica Neerlandica 32). The present study investigates the function of the verbal forms in biblical Hebrew narrative, using the Joseph story (Gen. 37-50) as a corpus. It demonstrates how the 'tense', 'aspect' and 'sequentiality' function as factors in the choice of the verbal forms in both main clauses and subordinate clauses. The...
5., verbesserte und aktualisierte Auflage. — De Gruyter, 2020. — 392 p. In zwei praktischen Teilbänden Die Grammatik ist als begleitendes Lehrbuch für den Hebräischunterricht konzipiert. Es gewährt den Lehrenden einen möglichst großen Freiraum für die Auswahl und Anwendung unterschiedlicher Lehrmethoden. Den Studierenden wird durch eine übersichtliche Strukturierung des...
Penn State University Press, 2019. — 542 p. — (Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic 14). Ancient Palestine served as a land bridge between the continents of Asia, Africa, and Europe, and as a result, the ancient Israelites frequently interacted with speakers of non-Semitic languages, including Egyptian, Greek, Hittite and Luwian, Hurrian, Old Indic, and Old Iranian. This...
Brill Publications, 1997. — 348 p. In Greek and Roman Palestine a Hebrew dialect existed alongside the literary language of Biblical Hebrew and yet followed its own pattern of development. After the destruction of the Temple it is believed the rabbis elevated this dialect to the status of a literary language, "Rabbinic Hebrew" and employed it in the composition of the Mishnah,...
University of Sydney, 2008. — 277 p. The continued reliance upon evidence from linguistic data for dating Archaic Biblical Hebrew poetic texts to the second millennium BCE is no longer acceptable as it can be shown that linguistic evidence is a flawed tool for dating purposes. That these archaic poems are older than the remainder of the Hebrew Bible because they have several...
6., unveränderte Neuauflage. — Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2022. — 185 S. Die vorliegende Grammatik führt systematisch in die Schrift- und Lautlehre sowie die Formen- und Satzlehre des Biblischen Hebräisch ein. Zahlreiche Schautafeln und Paradigmen („Beispiele“) helfen, in der Vielzahl von Möglichkeiten einer alten und fremden Sprache Regelmäßigkeit und System zu erkennen. Die...
De Gruyter, 2019. — 334 p. The Glossary presents documentation for the specialized Hebrew and Aramaic vocabulary of Biblical Jewish law, from Biblical sources through the completion of the Babylonian Talmud, thus furnishing new options for comparative ancient legal history. A detailed introduction into ancient Jewish law is included.
Peeters Pub & Booksellers, 2022. — 357 p. — (Contributions to Biblical Exegesis & Theology 106). In this monograph, the semantics of the word (bad) is examined across the corpus of Ancient Hebrew and the Mishnah. The study takes cognitive linguistic theories as its theoretical base and proceeds by first examining the schematic content that (bad) tends to modify (as an...
Stellenbosch University, 2017. — 167 p. Even a casual reading of the Old Testament demonstrates that the ancient Israelite writers clearly conceived of some kind of conceptual relationship between light and YHWH. Theologians disagree concerning its precise nature, however, advocating anything from a simple metaphorical relationship with no metaphysical meaning to a full...
University College London (University of London), 2022. — 418 p. This dissertation analyses the translation of Biblical Hebrew verbal stems in the Greek version of the Pentateuch and Former Prophets codified in the Septuagint. The Biblical Hebrew system of stems differs significantly from the Greek verbal system, and therefore systematic investigation of the strategies employed...
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2015. — 240 p. Although linguistic Hebraists are dissatisfied with traditional grammatical analysis, this dissertation demonstrates that traditional Semitic grammar – primarily based on Arabic grammar and grammarians – still provides the most simple, clear, and accurate description of biblical Hebrew grammar. Chapter 1 illustrates the role...
University of Cambridge, 2021. — 166 p. Cognitive linguistics has opened new avenues for Biblical studies in the last several decades. In particular, prototype theory, metaphor theory, and polysemy studies can shed light on the Biblical text. Prototype theory aids the Biblical scholar in understanding how semantic domains are organized in the mind. This leads to a clearer...
Stellenbosch: Stellenbosch University, 2004. — 325 p. One of the questions that have challenged scholars of BH for many years is whether the language should be regarded as a tense, aspectual or modal language. In this thesis, I argue that the lack and application of a metacategory for describing any language in general, and BH in particular, has been the main problem of the...
Brigham Young University, 2022. — 59 p. The typological distinction between negative concord and double negation languages has received increasing attention over the past century beginning with Jespersen (1922). Multiple negation in Biblical Hebrew has been subject to mixed treatment in this regard. Some scholars have treated all multiple negation in Biblical Hebrew as emphatic...
Stellenbosch: Stellenbosch University, 2017. — 299 p. The present work is an investigation into both the semantics and functions of the particle אִם , and the conditional and non-conditional constructions in which it is found in Biblical Hebrew. A fresh examination of the particle and conditionality in Biblical Hebrew is warranted for two reasons. First, recent studies of...
Stellenbosch: Stellenbosch University, 2017. — 290 p. This dissertation addresses the problem of the polysemic meaning of three Biblical Hebrew (=BH) words that are used as prepositions: ʾahṛ , pn(h), and thṭ . Addressing this problem not only profiles the poly- and heterosemies of these words, but also establishes how usage-based methods can be applied to analyze and...
Stellenbosch: Stellenbosch University, 2017. — 327 p. This study is an investigation into the grammatically polysemous word כי in the Hebrew Bible. Despite much ink spilt on the description of this little word, many questions remain to be fully explored. Studies of the past have traditionally tended toward more or less taxonomic approaches in which the various uses of כי and...
The Catholic University of America, 2017. — 264 p. The future time uses of the Suffix Conjugation (SC) in Biblical Hebrew (BH) have troubled interpreters for over a thousand years. A SC with future time reference was often labeled a praeteritum propheticum until the 19th century when Ewald developed a new approach to the BH verbal system (BHVS). Ewald argued that the SC...
Stellenbosch University, 2002. — 248 p. Tot op hede is die studie van die semantiek tot 'n groot mate bëinvloed deur die taalkundige perspektiefvan die navorser. Dit het dikwels gelei tot resultate wat skeefgetrek is deur die voorveronderstellings van die navorser. Sommige aspekte van betekenis wat van primêre belang is vir die semantiese beskrywing van bepaalde taalkundige...
University of Stellenbosch, 2011. — 112 p. This thesis addresses the problem of polysemy in describing the biblical Hebrew lexeme תחת in the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. Traditionally treated as mainly a preposition, it is demonstrated in this study that תחת can also be used as a noun, adverb or conjunction. A critical analysis of standard biblical Hebrew lexica reveals that...
Stellenbosch University, 2013. — 247 p. This study represents an investigation of a set of BH connectives (רוּבֲעַבּ, ןַעַמְל, and ןֶפּ) as well as other grammatical constructions relevant to the lexical items. This investigation seeks to establish the datatypes which are relevant for distinguishing the meanings and/or senses that the BH connectives רוּבֲעַבּ, ןַעַמְל, and ןֶפּ...
Stellenbosch University, 2012. — 142 p. This thesis provides a critical assessment of the semantic potential of two Biblical Hebrew lexemes: עִם and אֵת . Previous lexical inquiries of the target lexemes provide the impetus for the current research; this is because the linguistic frameworks assumed by these studies are outmatched in the amount of explanatory power accompanying...
University of Edinburgh, 2020. — 288 p. From the 1960s on, linguistic theory has become increasingly integrated into the analysis of Biblical Hebrew. As a result of Biblical Hebrew being analysed as language, it has increasingly been studied as a portion of Ancient Hebrew. This study draws on theories and methods of lexical and cognitive semantics to study the meaning of ע ר)...
Stellenbosch University, 2016. — 115 p. In this investigation, I aimed to account for the semantic potential of the Biblical Hebrew (BH) preposition אֶל as well as for that of other grammatical constructions associated with the lexical item in Genesis and Jeremiah. Research in Cognitive Linguistics (e.g. prototype theory, categorisation, and conceptualisation) has provided...
Stellenbosch University, 2020. — 313 p. This interdisciplinary, cross-linguistic investigation of the word ’îš ( אִישׁ ), including its feminine and plural forms, noted more than ten distinctive features compared to other general human nouns in the Hebrew Bible: shorter, more frequent, more broadly dispersed, more relational senses, etc. To explain these features, this noun was...
Stellenbosch University, 2021. — 253 p. The purpose of this study is to examine the biblical Hebrew term נֶפֶשׁ in terms of a cognitive semantic (CS) working model in order to determine the relationships of its senses. This examination includes how and why the senses of נֶפֶשׁ extend into new senses. Past research has described the senses of נֶפֶשׁ well, to which the study...
Stellenbosch University, 2023. — 277 p. This study is an investigation of the complementation of the verb ראה in Biblical Hebrew. The problem it addresses is the lack of a coherent account of the various complements selected by this verb, as well as the semantic or pragmatic effects of these various complements. This investigation begins with a survey of previous lexical...
Stellenbosch University, 2017. — 290 p. This dissertation addresses the problem of the polysemic meaning of three Biblical Hebrew (=BH) words that are used as prepositions: ʾahṛ , pn(h), and thṭ . Addressing this problem not only profiles the poly- and heterosemies of these words, but also establishes how usage-based methods can be applied to analyze and describe relational...
Penn State University Press, 2012. — 419 p. — (Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic 7). 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....
Penn State University Press, 2022. — 232 p. — (Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic 16). This book provides a new explanation for what has long been a challenge for scholars of Biblical Hebrew: how to understand the expression of verbal tense and aspect. Working from a representative text corpus, combined with database queries of specific usages and surveys of examples...
University of North Dakota, 2022. — 126 p. This thesis applies a new theory to old data. It reanalyzes VERTICALITY metaphors for distress in Classical Hebrew using Primary Metaphor Theory. Previously, this pattern of metaphors in Hebrew was analyzed by King (2012) within the general framework of Conceptual Metaphor Theory. This study focuses on the ways that Primary Metaphor...
Brill, 2017. — 245 p. — (Studia Semitica Neerlandica 67). In Die biblisch-hebräische Partikel נָא im Lichte der antiken Bibelübersetzungen Peter Juhás addresses the function of the much-debated particle -nā in Biblical Hebrew from the point of view of the most important ancient Bible translations (Greek, Syriac, Latin). His research combines textual criticism, translation...
University of Edinburgh, 2022. — 319 p. In this study, I examine the linguistic infelicities (i.e., meta-textual semantics) in the Hebrew text of Jeremiah. The introduction to Proverbs, especially Prov 1:5-6, suggests that it utilises mind-advancing strategies and riddles (e.g., the acronym אֵב ֹתּ in Prov 1:10 interpreted as םָ תִּ א ךֶ רֶ דְ בּ ךֵלֵ תּ via verse 15). Ancient...
Brill, 2019. — x, 328 p. — (European Genizah Texts and Studies, Volume 3; Studies in Jewish History and Culture, Volume: 56). The Colmar Public Library preserves more than 330 Hebrew fragments glued to the bindings of incunabula. Each of them a priori can be considered as a witness to a book that disappeared, probably fallen into the hands of bookbinders as a result of tragic...
Brill, 2020. — xx, 347 p. — (European Genizah Texts and Studies, Volume 5; Studies in Jewish History and Culture, Volume: 63) This volume includes contributions presented at two conferences, in Mainz and Jerusalem, and presents new discoveries of binding fragments in several European libraries and archives and abroad. It presents newly discovered texts with unknown Jewish...
Brill, 2016. — xii, 234 p., 34 ill. — (Biblical Interpretation Series, Volume 146). In Hebrew Lexical Semantics and Daily Life in Ancient Israel, Kurtis Peters hitches the world of Biblical Studies to that of modern linguistic research. Often the insights of linguistics do not appear in the study of Biblical Hebrew, and if they do, the theory remains esoteric. Peters finds a...
Brill, 2015. — x, 194 p. — (Biblical Interpretation Series, Volume: 134). In Saxa judaica loquuntur (‘Jewish stones speak out’), Pieter W. van der Horst informs the reader about the recent boom in the study of ancient Jewish epigraphy and he demonstrates what kinds of new information this development yields. After sketching the status quaestionis, this book exemplifies the...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 1980. — 212 p. — (Janua Linguarum. Series Practica 231). The Hebrew SENTENCE (Se) as the domain of inter-clausal relationships has not been studied systematically on a full scale since the volume on syntax in Eduard König's monumental grammar. 1 The established approach is found too in several briefer works. Thus A. B. Davidson's Hebrew Syntax...
Brill, 2019. — xvi, 377 p. — (Studia Semitica Neerlandica, Volume: 71). The chapters of this volume address a variety of topics that pertain to modern readers’ understanding of ancient texts, as well as tools or resources that can facilitate contemporary audiences’ interpretation of these ancient writings and their language. In this regard, they cover subjects related to the...
Brill, 1988. — xv, 473 p. — (Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics 13.2). This work is a comprehensive survey of non-Masoretic Hebrew dialects and traditions against the background of the related, primarily other West Semitic lanugages, but also the less close East and South Semitic and non-Semitic branches of the Semito-Hamitic phylum are taken into account. The...
Brill, 1986. — xxxii, 341 p. — (Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics 13.1). This work is a comprehensive survey of non-Masoretic Hebrew dialects and traditions against the background of the related, primarily other West Semitic lanugages, but also the less close East and South Semitic and non-Semitic branches of the Semito-Hamitic phylum are taken into account. The...