The verbal system in the Hebrew text of Ben Sira / / by W. Th. van Peursen.

• Superior document: Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; Volume 41
• VerfasserIn: Peursen, W. Th. van,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; Volume 41.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xix, 462)
• Notes: A Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Leiden University, 1999.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; PRELI MIN ARIES /; THE BOOK OF BEN SIRA AND ITS TEXTUAL TRANSMISSION /; ORTHOGRAPHY OF THE BEN SIRA MANUSCRIPTS /; STUDIES ON BEN SIRA'S LANGUAGE: A HISTORICAL SURVEY /; THE PERFECT ALONE /; PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS CONCERNING THE MORPHOLOGY OF THE IMPERFECT /; THE IMPERFECT ALONE /; THE CONSECUTIVE PERFECT /; THE CONSECUTIVE IMPERFECT /; THE COPULATIVE PERFECT /; THE COPULATIVE IMPERFECT /; THE VOLITIVES /; THE PARTICIPLE /; THE CONSTRUCT INFINITIVE /; THE ABSOLUTE INFINITIVE /; INTERROGATIVE AND EXCLAMATORY CLAUSES /; PRELIMINARY REMARKS ON SUBORDINATE CLAUSES /; SUBSTANTIVAL CLAUSES /; RELATIVE CLAUSES /; TEMPORAL CLAUSES /; CONDITIONAL CLAUSES /; FINAL AND CONSECUTIVE CLAUSES /; CAUSAL AND EXPLICATIVE CLAUSES /; COMPARATIVE CLAUSES /; CONCLUSIONS /; BIBLIOGRAPHY /; INDEX OF PASSAGES /; INDEX OF AUTHORS /; STUDIES IN SEMITIC LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9047412303
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by W. Th. van Peursen.

This volume is a revised and enlarged version of the author's Ph.D. dissertation (1999). It gives a comprehensive analysis of the morphosyntax and syntax of the tenses in the Hebrew text of Ben Sira. Due attention is paid to the heterogeneous character of the textual evidence (three manuscripts from the Desert of Judah and six mediaeval manuscripts from the Cairo Geniza), which complicates any linguistic study of Ben Sira. A descriptive analysis is complemented by a comparison with other contemporaneous, earlier, and later forms of Hebrew. It is argued that the Hebrew of Ben Sira is a literary language in its own right, rather than an imitation of Biblical Hebrew or a predecessor of Mishnaic Hebrew.