Diachrony in Biblical Hebrew

✍ Scribed by Cynthia L. Miller-Naudé, Ziony Zevit

• Publisher: Eisenbrauns
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 546
• Series: Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic 8
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Part 1: Introduction
Cynthia L. Miller-Naudé: Diachrony in Biblical Hebrew: Linguistic Perspectives on Change and Variation

Part 2: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives on Diachrony
B. Elan Dresher: Methodological Issues in the Dating of Linguistic Forms: Considerations from the Perspective of Contemporary Linguistic Theory
T. Givón: Biblical Hebrew as a Diachronic Continuum
Jacobus A. Naudé: Diachrony in Biblical Hebrew and a Theory of Language Change and Diffusion
John A. Cook: Detecting Development in Biblical Hebrew Using Diachronic Typology
Robert D. Holmstedt: Historical Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew

Part 3: Examining Diachrony in Biblical Hebrew
Orthographic Features
A. Dean Forbes and Francis I. Andersen: Dwelling on Spelling
Morphological Features
Yigal Bloch: The Third-Person Masculine Plural Suffixed Pronoun -mw and Its Implications for the Dating of Biblical Hebrew Poetry
Steven E. Fassberg: The Kethiv/Qere הִוא, Diachrony, and Dialectology
Martin Ehrensvärd: Discerning Diachronic Change in the Biblical Hebrew Verbal System
Tania Notarius: The Archaic System of Verbal Tenses in "Archaic” Biblical Poetry
Syntactic Features
Elitzur A. Bar-Asher Siegal: Diachronic Syntactic Studies in Hebrew Pronominal Reciprocal Constructions
Naˁama Pat-El: Syntactic Aramaisms as a Tool for the Internal Chronology of Biblical Hebrew
Lexical Features
Avi Hurvitz: The “Linguistic Dating of Biblical Texts”: Comments on Methodological Guidelines and Philological Procedures
Jan Joosten: The Evolution of Literary Hebrew in Biblical Times: The Evidence of Pseudo-classicisms
Shalom M. Paul: Signs of Late Biblical Hebrew in Isaiah 40-66
Sociological and Dialectal Considerations
Frank H. Polak: Language Variation, Discourse Typology, and the Sociocultural Background of Biblical Narrative
Gary A. Rendsburg: Northern Hebrew through Time: From the Song of Deborah to the Mishnah
Text-Critical Considerations
Chaim Cohen: Diachrony in Biblical Hebrew Lexicography and Its Ramifications for Textual Analysis

Part 4: Comparative Semitic Perspectives on Diachrony
Michael Sokoloff: Outline of Aramaic Diachrony
Joseph Lam and Dennis Pardee: Diachrony in Ugaritic
N. J. C. Kouwenberg: Diachrony in Akkadian and the Dating of Literary Texts

Part 5: Afterword
Ziony Zevit: Not-So-Random Thoughts Concerning Linguistic Dating and Diachrony in Biblical Hebrew

✦ Subjects

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