The reconfiguration of Hebrew in the Hellenistic period : : proceedings of the seventh International Symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ben Sira at Strasbourg University, June 2014 / / edited by Jan Joosten, Daniel Machiela, Jean-Sebastien Rey.

• Author: International Symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ben Sira Strasbourg University)
• TeilnehmendeR: Joosten, Jan.; Machiela, Daniel A.; Rey, Jean-Sébastien.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Boston ; Brill.; c2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 124.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Notes: Includes index.

The present volume of proceedings offers cutting-edge research on the Hebrew language in the late Persian, Hellenistic and Roman periods. Fourteen specialists of ancient Hebrew illuminate various aspects of the language, from phonology through grammar and syntax to semantics and interpretation. The research furthers the exegesis of biblical and non-biblical texts, it helps determine the chronological outline of Hebrew literature, and contributes to a better understanding of the sociolinguistic aspects of the language in the period of the Second Temple. Hebrew did not die out after the Babylonian exile, but continued to be used in speaking and writing in a variety of settings.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Preface / Jan Joosten , Daniel Machiela and Jean-Sébastien Rey -- The Clause “The Lord is a Man of War” (ה׳ אִישׁ מִלְחָמָה) and its Reflexes throughout the Generations / Moshe Bar-Asher -- Tense Forms and Time Frames in Qumran Hebrew Prose and Poetry / Mats Eskhult -- Gutturals and Gemination in Samaritan Hebrew / Steven E. Fassberg -- Writing a Descriptive Grammar of the Syntax and Semantics of the War Scroll (1QM)—Laying the Groundwork / Robert D. Holmstedt -- Diachronic Exceptions in the Comparison of Tiberian and Qumran Hebrew: The Preservation of Early Linguistic Features in Dead Sea Scrolls Biblical Hebrew / Aaron D. Hornkohl -- Late Biblical Hebrew and Qumran Hebrew: A Diachronic View / Jan Joosten -- The Hebrew of Tobit in 4Q200: A Contextual Reassessment / Daniel Machiela -- תכמי בשר “Body Parts”: The Semantic History of a Qumran Hebrew Lexeme / Noam Mizrahi -- Linguistically Significant Variants in Qumran Fragments of Psalms / Takamitsu Muraoka -- Rhetorical Markers in A Fortiori Argumentation in Biblical and Post-Biblical Hebrew / Tzvi Novick -- The Etymology of זעטוט “Youth, Young Man” / Gary A. Rendsburg -- Is the Hebrew of the Cairo Genizah Manuscripts of Ben Sira Relevant for the Study of the Hebrew of the Hellenistic Period? / Jean-Sébastien Rey -- Reflections on Orthography and Morphology in Ben Sira’s Hebrew: The 3ms Heh Pronominal Suffix / Eric D. Reymond -- Ṣade—Shin Change in the Dead Sea Scrolls / Alexey Eliyahu Yuditsky and Chanan Ariel -- Back Matter -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Ancient Sources.