Narrative syntax and the Hebrew Bible : : papers of the Tilburg conference 1996 / / edited by Ellen van Wolde.

• Superior document: Biblical Interpretation Series ; 29
• Author: Tilburg Conference on Narrative Syntax and the Hebrew Bible
• TeilnehmendeR: Wolde, Ellen van,; Tilburg Conference on Narrative Syntax and the Hebrew Bible (1996)
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, New York, New York : : Brill,, [1997]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 1997
• Language: English
• Series: Biblical Interpretation Series ; 29.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Biblical Hebrew grammar was until recently concentrated on the morpho-syntax within sentence boundaries. In the past few decades text-syntactic theories have been developed. At the conference Narrative Syntax and the Hebrew Bible (Tilburg 1996) six eminent scholars presented both a paper on Hebrew syntax and a workshop in which Exodus 19-24 or 1 Samuel 1 was studied. Both kinds of contributions are collected in this volume. They tend to lead towards one conclusion: traditional sentence-grammar and text-syntactic studies should not exclude, but include each other. The verb forms, word-order and other syntactic features need to be studied as functioning at more than one level. A combination of a morpho-syntactic study at the sentence level and a text-syntactic approach is thus defended. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.