Diggers at the Well : : Proceedings of a Third International Symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ben Sira / / edited by T. Muraoka and J.F. Elwolde.

• Superior document: Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah Series ; Volume 36
• Author: International Symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ben Sira Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
• TeilnehmendeR: Muraoka, T.,; Elwolde, J. F.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, [2000]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English; Hebrew; Ancient Greek; Latin
• Series: Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah ; Volume 36.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 307 pages)

The accelerated publication of the Dead Sea Scrolls makes it essential for scholars working with these texts to have reliable and up-to-date information over the nature of Qumran Hebrew and Aramaic. This volume presents results of current investigations in this field presented at a third, four-day symposium on the Hebrew of the Scrolls and Ben Sira held in October 1999 at the Ben-Gurion University in Beer-Sheva with as many as 27 papers presented, some of which deal with questions of general and fundamental importance such as the nature of Qumran Hebrew, the linguistic symbiosis in Qumran, the position of Qumran Hebrew in the history of Hebrew, the future directions of philological and linguistic investigation of Qumran Hebrew and the Scrolls. Participants, many of whom are reputed specialists in the field, came from not only Israel, but also the U.S.A. , U.K., Sweden, the Netherlands, and France.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- EXISTENTIAL CLAUSES IN QUMRAN HEBREW / Martin F.J. Baasten -- A FEW REMARKS ON MISHNAIC HEBREW AND ARAMAIC IN QUMRAN HEBREW / Moshe Bar-Asher -- A CONSERVATIVE VIEW OF THE LANGUAGE OF THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS / Joshua Blau -- SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE יששה םוי SYNDROME IN THE HEBREW OF THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS / Alexander Borg -- A PHILOLOGICAL REEVALUATION OF SOME SIGNIFICANT DSS VARIANTS OF THE MT IN ISA 1-5 / Chaim Cohen -- NON-BIBLICAL VERBAL USAGES IN THE BOOK OF BEN SIRA / Haim Dihi -- RWQMHIN THE DAMASCUS DOCUMENT AND PS 139:15 / John Elwolde -- VERBAL SYNTAX IN LATE BIBLICAL HEBREW / Mats Eskhult -- THE SYNTAX OF THE BIBLICAL DOCUMENTS FROM THE JUDEAN DESERT AS REFLECTED IN A COMPARISON OF MULTIPLE COPIES OF BIBLICAL TEXTS / S.E. Fassberg -- WAS QH A “SPOKEN” LANGUAGE? ON SOME RECENT VIEWS AND POSITIONS: COMMENTS / Avi Hurvitz -- THE KNOWLEDGE AND USE OF HEBREW IN THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD QUMRAN AND THE SEPTUAGINT / Jan Joosten -- SOME COGNITIVE AND TYPOLOGICAL SEMANTIC REMARKS ON THE LANGUAGE OF 4QMMT / Pablo-Isaac Kirtchuk -- SOME OBSERVATIONS ON VOCABULARY AND STYLE IN THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS / Menahem Kister -- BIBLICAL APOCRYPHA AND PSEUDEPIGRAPHA AND THE HEBREW OF THE SECOND TEMPLE PERIOD / James Kugel -- ON SOME CONCEPTS IN THE WORLD OF QUMRAN: POLYSEMY AND SEMANTIC DEVELOPMENT / Shelomo Morag -- AN APPROACH TO THE MORPHOSYNTAX AND SYNTAX OF QUMRAN HEBREW / Takamitsu Muraoka -- CONDITIONAL SENTENCES WITH ﬦא IN THE PROTASIS IN QUMRAN HEBREW / Wido T. van Peursen -- THE NATURE OF DSS HEBREW AND ITS RELATION TO BH AND MH / Elisha Qimron -- LINGUISTIC IDEOLOGY IN QUMRAN HEBREW / William M. Schniedewind -- THE INFINITIVE ABSOLUTE AS PREDICATIVE VERB IN BEN SIRA AND THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS: A PRELIMINARY SURVEY / Mark S. Smith -- INDICES -- WORKS CITED -- STUDIES ON THE TEXTS OF THE DESERT OF JUDAH.