Early Biblical Hebrew, late Biblical Hebrew, and linguistic variability : a sociolinguistic evaluation of the linguistic dating of Biblical texts / / by Dong-Hyuk Kim.

• Author: Kim, Dong-Hyuk.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Supplements to Vetus Testamentum, v. 156; Vetus Testamentum, Supplements 156.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (202 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In Early Biblical Hebrew, Late Biblical Hebrew, and Linguistic Variability , Dong-Hyuk Kim attempts to adjudicate between the two seemingly irreconcilable views over the linguistic dating of biblical texts. Whereas the traditional opinion, represented by Avi Hurvitz, believes that Late Biblical Hebrew was distinct from Early Biblical Hebrew and thus one can date biblical texts on linguistic grounds, the more recent view argues that Early and Late Biblical Hebrew were merely stylistic choices through the entire biblical period. Using the variationist approach of (historical) sociolinguistics and on the basis of the sociolinguistic concepts of linguistic variation and different types of language change, Kim convincingly argues that there is a third way of looking at the issue.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Linguistic Dating of Biblical Hebrew Texts: A Survey of Scholarship -- 3. The Variation Analysis of the Hebrew Bible Corpus: The Method -- 4. Variability, Linguistic Change, and Two Types of Changes: A Theoretical Assessment -- 5. Variables of Biblical Hebrew: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of the Purported EBH and LBH Features -- 6. A Sociolinguistic Evaluation of the Linguistic Dating of Biblical Texts: Summary and Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index of Authors -- Index of Scriptural References.