Language contact, colonial administration, and the construction of identity in ancient Israel : : Language contact, coconstructing the context for contact / / by Samuel L. Boyd.

• Superior document: Harvard Semitic monographs ; Volume 66
• VerfasserIn: Boyd, Samuel L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : BRILL,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Harvard Semitic monographs ; Volume 66.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

"In Language Contact, Colonial Administration, and the Construction of Identity in Ancient Israel, Boyd addresses a long-standing critical issue in biblical scholarship: how does the production of the Bible relate to its larger historical, linguistic, and cultural settings in the ancient Near E...

Table of Contents

• Preface/Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations of Biblical Books and Other Ancient Sources
• Abbreviations for Linguistic Glosses and Terms
• Abbreviations Used in Citations and Bibliography
• 1 Introduction and Scope of the Project
• 1.1 Contact, Colonization, and the Bible
• 1.2 The Comparative Method, Language Contact, and Biblical Studies: an Overview
• 1.3 The Comparative Method and the Search for the Scribe
• 1.4 Contact in the Hebrew Bible: Linguistic Approaches
• 1.5 Scope and Purpose of This Book
• 2 Contact Linguistics: Methodological Introduction and Sociolinguistic Considerations
• 2.1 Introduction to Contact Linguistics
• 2.2 The Study of Language Contact in Its Initial Phases: Coming to Grips with History, Culture, and Power
• 2.3 Brief History of Contact Linguistics as a Field of Study in Modern Times
• 2.4 Major Types of Contact and Debates in the Field
• 2.5 Can Language Contact Theory Be Applied to Ancient Languages?
• 2.6 Conclusion
• 3 Setting the Sociohistorical Context: the Akkadian-Aramaic Situation
• 3.1 Historical Background for Contact
• 3.2 Scribes and Corroborating Evidence for Aramaic/Akkadian Contact
• 3.3 Assyrian Colonial Policy and the Role of Local Vernaculars
• 3.4 Bukhan and Sefire, VTE and D
• 3.5 Legal Texts, Genre, and Limits of Contact
• 3.6 Texts and Translations
• 3.7 Conclusion
• 4 Linguistic Evidences of Language Contact between Aramaic and Akkadian and Their Implications.
• 4.1 A Linguistic Definition of Aramaic
• 4.2 Akkadian and Aramaic Contact: the Linguistic Data
• 4.3 Lexical and Structural Contact-Induced Changes
• 4.4 The Linguistic Processes of Akkadian/Aramaic Contact
• 4.5 Conclusion
• 5 Language Contact and the Book of Ezekiel
• 5.1 Historical Background and the Study of the Book of Ezekiel
• 5.2 Ezekiel's Access to Mesopotamian Literature
• 5.3 Lexemes in Ezekiel
• 5.4 Structural Evidence of Contact
• 5.5 Conclusion
• 6 Language Contact and the Book of Isaiah
• 6.1 The Critical Study of Isaiah
• 6.2 Isa 2:10, 19, and 21, Contact-Induced Change, and Diachronic Approaches
• 6.3 Isaiah 13:4
• 6.4 Loans and Literary Layers in Isaiah
• 6.5 Isaiah's Oracles against the Nations, Dialectal Representation, and Language Contact
• 6.6 Second Isaiah, Navigating Empire and Language, and Structural Change in Biblical Hebrew
• 6.7 Conclusion
• 7 Contact, Translation, and the Formation of the Bible
• 7.1 Contact and History
• 7.2 Politics and Colonialism in Language, Literature, and History
• 7.3 Hybridity, Resistance, and Language Contact: How Language Change Helps Map the Navigation of Identity
• 7.4 The Legacy of Structuralism
• 7.5 Scribalism, Orality, and Contact
• 7.6 Language Contact and the Study of the Hebrew Bible
• Bibliography.