Sirach, Scrolls, and Sages : : Proceedings of a Second International Symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Ben Sira, and the Mishnah, Held at Leiden University, 15-17 December 1997 / / edited by T. Muraoka and J.F. Elwolde.

• Superior document: Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah Series ; Volume 33
• Author: International Symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Ben Sira, and the Mishnah Leiden University)
• TeilnehmendeR: Muraoka, T.,; Elwolde, J. F.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, [1999]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 1999
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English; Hebrew
• Series: Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah ; Volume 33.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vi, 364 pages)
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; PREFACE --; THE SEMANTICS OF ‘GLORY’ IN BEN SIRA—RACES OF A DEVELOPMENT IN POST-BIBLICAL HEBREW? /; NOMINAL CLAUSES WITH LOCATIVE AND POSSESSIVE PREDICATES IN QUMRAN HEBREW /; THE HEBREW TEXTS OF BEN SIRA 32[35].16–33[36].2 --; AN UNUSUAL USE OF THE DEFINITE ARTICLE IN BIBLICAL AND POST-BIBLICAL HEBREW --; SOME LEXICAL STRUCTURES IN 1QH: TOWARDS A DISTINCTION OF THE LINGUISTIC AND THE LITERARY --; ON SYNTAX AND STYLE IN BEN SIRA: WORD ORDER /; FURTHER COMMENTS ON THE LINGUISTIC PROFILE OF BEN SIRA: SYNTACTIC AFFINITIES WITH LATE BIBLICAL HEBREW --; PSEUOO-CLASSICISMS IN LATE BIBLICAL HEBREW, IN BEN SIRA, AND IN QUMRAN HEBREW /; SOME NOTES ON BIBLICAL EXPRESSIONS AND ALLUSIONS AND THE LEXICOGRAPHY OF BEN SIRA /; THE PARTICIPLE IN QUMRAN HEBREW WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ITS PERIPHRASTIC USE /; 4QMMT: LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF REDACTIONAL FORMS RELATED TO BIBLICAL AND RABBINIC LANGUAGE /; NEGATION IN THE HEBREW OF BEN SIRA /; THE DERIVATION OF THE NOUN תחובשת IN THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS /; THE HEBREW OF BEN SIRA INVESTIGATED ON THE BASIS OF HIS USE OF תדכ: A SYNTACTIC, SEMANTIC AND LANGUAGE-HISTORICAL CONTRIBUTION /; GRAMMATICALLY SPEAKING: THE PARTICIPLE AS A MAIN VERB OF CLAUSES (PREDICATIVE PARTICIPLE) IN DIRECT DISCOURSE AND NARRATIVE IN PRE-MISHNAIC HEBREW /; QUMRAN AND MISHNAH: A COMPARISON OF PRESCRIPTIVE TEXT TYPES /; THE LANGUAGE OF THE HEBREW BIBLE CONTRASTED WITH THE LANGUAGE OF THE BEN SIRA MANUSCRIPTS AND OF THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS /; INDEX OF TEXTS --; INDEX OF HEBREW AND ARAMAIC WORDS AND PHRASES --; INDEX OF SUBJECTS --; STUDIES ON THE TEXTS OF THE DESERT OF JUDAH.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
• ISBN: 9004350357
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by T. Muraoka and J.F. Elwolde.

Following a successful symposium held in Leiden in 1995 a second international gathering took place, also in Leiden, two years later. The volume contains revised papers covering a wide range of linguistic and textual subjects and presented by scholars from eight countries: Austria (Reiterer), Denmark (Ehrensvärd), France (Joosten), Israel (Fassberg, Hurvitz, Kister, Qimron), Netherlands (Baasten, Beentjes, Muraoka, van Peursen, van Uchelen, Wesselius), Spain (Pérez Fernández), UK (Aitken, Elwolde), USA (M. Smith). A subject index and an index locorum are included.