Diachrony in Biblical Hebrew / / ed. by Cynthia Miller-Naudé, Ziony Zevit.

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• MitwirkendeR: Andersen, Francis I.,; Bar-Asher Siegal, Elitzur A.,; Bloch, Yigal,; Cohen, Chaim,; Cook, John A.,; Dresher, B. Elan,; Ehrensvärd, Martin,; Fassberg, Steven E.,; Forbes, A. Dean,; Givón, T.,; Holmstedt, Robert D.,; Hurvitz, Avi,; Joosten, Jan,; Kouwenberg, N. J. C.,; Lam, Joseph,; Miller-Naudé, Cynthia L.,; Naudé, Jacobus A.,; Notarius, Tania,; Pardee, Dennis,; Pat-El, Naʿama,; Paul, Shalom M.,; Polak, Frank H.,; Rendsburg, Gary A.,; Sokoloff, Michael,; Zevit, Ziony,
• HerausgeberIn: Miller-Naudé, Cynthia,; Zevit, Ziony,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic ; 8
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (544 p.)

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

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Part 1: Introduction -- Diachrony in Biblical Hebrew: Linguistic Perspectives on Change and Variation -- Part 2: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives on Diachrony -- Methodological Issues in the Dating of Linguistic Forms: Considerations from the Perspective of Contemporary Linguistic Theory -- Biblical Hebrew as a Diachronic Continuum -- Diachrony in Biblical Hebrew and a Theory of Language Change and Diffusion -- Detecting Development in Biblical Hebrew Using Diachronic Typology -- Historical Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew -- Part 3: Examining Diachrony in Biblical Hebrew -- Orthographic Features -- Dwelling on Spelling -- Morphological Features -- The Third-Person Masculine Plural Suffixed Pronoun -mw and Its Implications for the Dating of Biblical Hebrew Poetry -- The Kethiv/Qere הִוא , Diachrony, and Dialectology -- Discerning Diachronic Change in the Biblical Hebrew Verbal System -- The Archaic System of Verbal Tenses in "Archaic" Biblical Poetry -- Syntactic Features -- Diachronic Syntactic Studies in Hebrew Pronominal Reciprocal Constructions -- Syntactic Aramaisms as a Tool for the Internal Chronology of Biblical Hebrew -- Lexical Features -- The "Linguistic Dating of Biblical Texts": Comments on Methodological Guidelines and Philological Procedures -- The Evolution of Literary Hebrew in Biblical Times: The Evidence of Pseudo-classicisms -- Signs of Late Biblical Hebrew in Isaiah 40-66 -- Sociological and Dialectal Considerations -- Language Variation, Discourse Typology, and the Sociocultural Background of Biblical Narrative -- Northern Hebrew through Time: From the Song of Deborah to the Mishnah -- Text-Critical Considerations -- Diachrony in Biblical Hebrew Lexicography and Its Ramifications for Textual Analysis -- Part 4: Comparative Semitic Perspectives on Diachrony -- Outline of Aramaic Diachrony -- Diachrony in Ugaritic -- Diachrony in Akkadian and the Dating of Literary Texts -- Part 5: Afterword -- Not‑So‑Random Thoughts Concerning Linguistic Dating and Diachrony in Biblical Hebrew -- Indexes