Studies in Classical Hebrew / / Moshe Bar-Asher.

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• VerfasserIn: Bar-Asher, Moshe,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Studia Judaica : Forschungen zur Wissenschaft des Judentums , 71
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (475 p.)

Professor Moshe Bar-Asher, Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University and long-time president of the Academy of the Hebrew Language, has published more than 200 articles and sixteen books and edited aboout 90 books and collections. The vast majority of his work has been accessible, however, only to specialists who read modern Hebrew or French. Bar-Asher’s groundbreaking articles on the dialects of rabbinic literature are classics. In more recent years he has brought the same breadth and depth of grammatical knowledge, and philological acumen, to the study of older classical Hebrew texts, including literary and epigraphic texts.This volume presents studies of individual words and verses within the Bible, as well as broader thematic discussions of biblical language and its long reception-history, down through medieval scribes and modern lexicographers. Also represented are Bar-Asher’s penetrating studies of Qumran texts and languages, which illuminate both the linguistic traditions reflected in these texts and the scribal culture from which they emerged. The third section contains studies of Mishnaic Hebrew. There are both sweeping surveys of the field and its accomplishments and challenges, and studies of specific phonological, morphological, syntactic and lexical features.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- A. Biblical Hebrew -- 1 The Qal Passive Participle of Geminate Verbs in Biblical Hebrew -- 2. יריריה - וה׳ אהבז: The morphology and meaning of the word ידיד -- 3. The Bible Interpreting Itself -- 4. Gesenius’ Thesaurus and Mishnaic Hebrew Studies -- 5 : איש יהודי היה בשושך הבידה When did יהודי Come to Denote ‘Jew’? -- 6. Biblical Language in Mishnaic Texts -- 7. זצזמד אל יכבד לבד :Regarding One Sentence from the Letter to Pelatyahu -- 8. The verse שמע ישדאל (‘Hear, O Israel’) in Greek transcription on an ancient amulet -- B. Qumran Hebrew -- 9. A Few Remarks on Mishnaic Hebrew and Aramaic in Qumran Hebrew -- 10. On Several Linguistic Features of Qumran Hebrew -- 11. Qumran Hebrew Between Biblical and Mishnaic Hebrews: A Morphological Study -- 12. Mistaken Repetitions or Double Readings? -- 13. Two Issues in Qumran Hebrew: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives -- 14. Grammatical and Lexicographic Notes on a Qumran Fragment (4Q374 ii) -- 15. כיון הצלמים / כיניי הצלמים -- 16. The Patterns Pe‘ila and Pi“ul in Qumran Hebrew -- C. Mishnaic Hebrew and Aramaic -- 17. Mishnaic Hebrew: An Introductory Survey -- 18. The Study of Mishnaic Hebrew Grammar Based on Written Sources: Achievements, Problems, and Tasks -- 19. The Different Traditions of Mishnaic Hebrew -- 20. The System of binyanim in Mishnaic Hebrew (A Morphological Study) -- 21. The Formation of the Nif ‘al III-yod Participle in Mishnaic Hebrew -- 22. Comments on the Morphology of Nouns in Mishnaic Hebrew: Nouns Attested and Unattested in Biblical Hebrew -- 23. Mishnaic Hebrew and Biblical Hebrew -- 24. On the Language of the Beit ‘Amar Papyrus -- 25. From Oral Transmission to Written Transmission (Concerning the meaning of some orthographic forms in the manuscripts of the Mishnah and of Rabbinic Literature) -- Bibliography -- Indexes