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)

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- PREFACE -- THE SEMANTICS OF ‘GLORY’ IN BEN SIRA—RACES OF A DEVELOPMENT IN POST-BIBLICAL HEBREW? / James K. Aitken -- NOMINAL CLAUSES WITH LOCATIVE AND POSSESSIVE PREDICATES IN QUMRAN HEBREW / Martin F.J. Baasten -- 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 / S.E. Fassberg -- 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 / Jan Joosten -- SOME NOTES ON BIBLICAL EXPRESSIONS AND ALLUSIONS AND THE LEXICOGRAPHY OF BEN SIRA / Menahem Kister -- THE PARTICIPLE IN QUMRAN HEBREW WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ITS PERIPHRASTIC USE / Takamitsu Muraoka -- 4QMMT: LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF REDACTIONAL FORMS RELATED TO BIBLICAL AND RABBINIC LANGUAGE / Miguel Pérez Fernández -- NEGATION IN THE HEBREW OF BEN SIRA / W. Th. van Peursen -- THE DERIVATION OF THE NOUN תחובשת IN THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS / Elisha Qimron -- THE HEBREW OF BEN SIRA INVESTIGATED ON THE BASIS OF HIS USE OF תדכ: A SYNTACTIC, SEMANTIC AND LANGUAGE-HISTORICAL CONTRIBUTION / Friedrich V. Reiterer -- GRAMMATICALLY SPEAKING: THE PARTICIPLE AS A MAIN VERB OF CLAUSES (PREDICATIVE PARTICIPLE) IN DIRECT DISCOURSE AND NARRATIVE IN PRE-MISHNAIC HEBREW / Mark S. Smith -- QUMRAN AND MISHNAH: A COMPARISON OF PRESCRIPTIVE TEXT TYPES / N.A. van Uchelen -- THE LANGUAGE OF THE HEBREW BIBLE CONTRASTED WITH THE LANGUAGE OF THE BEN SIRA MANUSCRIPTS AND OF THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS / Jan-Wim Wesselius -- INDEX OF TEXTS -- INDEX OF HEBREW AND ARAMAIC WORDS AND PHRASES -- INDEX OF SUBJECTS -- STUDIES ON THE TEXTS OF THE DESERT OF JUDAH.