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Author | : John A. Cook |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2012-10-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1575066815 |
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In this book John Cook interacts with the range of approaches to the perennial questions on the Biblical Hebrew verb in a fair-minded approach. Some of his answers may appear deceptively traditional, such as his perfective-imperfective identification of the qatal–yiqtol opposition. However, his approach is distinguished from the traditional approaches by its modern linguistic foundation. One distinguishing sign is his employment of the phrase “aspect prominent” to describe the Biblical Hebrew verbal system. As with almost any of the world’s verbal systems, this aspect-prominent system can express a wide range of aspectual, tensed, and modal meanings. In chap. 3, he argues that each of the forms can be semantically identified with a general meaning and that the expressions of specific aspectual, tensed, and modal meanings by each form are explicable with reference to its general meaning. After a decade of research and creative thinking, the author has come to frame his discussion not with the central question of “Tense or Aspect?” but with the question “What is the range of meaning for a given form, and what sort of contextual factors (syntagm, discourse, etc.) help us to understand this range in relation to a general meaning for the form?” In chap. 4 Cook addresses long-standing issues involving interaction between the semantics of verbal forms and their discourse pragmatic functions. He also proposes a theory of discourse modes for Biblical Hebrew. These discourse modes account for various temporal relationships that are found among successive clauses in Biblical Hebrew. Cook’s work addresses old questions with a fresh approach that is sure to provoke dialogue and new research.
Author | : Tal Goldfajn |
Publisher | : Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1998-07-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0191583456 |
Download Word Order and Time in Biblical Hebrew Narrative Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book addresses the problem of temporal interpretation within narrative of the biblical Hebrew verb, thus exploring the broader issue of the expression of time in language and the ways in which we can attempt to understand and represent it. Tal Goldfajn offers a summary of this controversy, which has been argued over since at least the tenth century, presenting previous scholarly opinions and theories. She argues that one possible way of understanding the fundamental meanings of the Hebrew verbs is by examining the role played in ordering time by the four main verb forms used in biblical Hebrew narrative. Accordingly, emphasis is given to the intersentential use of these forms and the variety of interesting ways in which they establish the order of events.
Author | : Tal Goldfajn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Bible |
ISBN | : 9780191683671 |
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This text addresses the problem of temporal interpretation within narrative of the Biblical Hebrew verb, thus exploring the broader issue of the expression of time in language and the ways in which we can attempt to understand and represent it.
Author | : Cynthia Miller-Naudé |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 545 |
Release | : 2012-10-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1575066831 |
Download Diachrony in Biblical Hebrew Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Diachrony in Biblical Hebrew is an indispensable publication for biblical scholars, whose interpretations of scriptures must engage the dates when texts were first composed and recorded, and for scholars of language, who will want to read these essays for the latest perspectives on the historical development of Biblical Hebrew. For Hebraists and linguists interested in the historical development of the Hebrew language, it is an essential collection of studies that address the language’s development during the Iron Age (in its various subdivisions), the Neo-Babylonian and Persian periods, and the Early Hellenistic period. Written for both “text people” and “language people,” this is the first book to address established Historical Linguistics theory as it applies to the study of Hebrew and to focus on the methodologies most appropriate for Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic. The book provides exemplary case studies of orthography, lexicography, morphology, syntax, language contact, dialectology, and sociolinguistics and, because of its depth of coverage, has broad implications for the linguistic dating of Biblical texts. The presentations are rounded out by useful summary histories of linguistic diachrony in Aramaic, Ugaritic, and Akkadian, the three languages related to and considered most crucial for Biblical research.
Author | : Ulf Bergström |
Publisher | : PSU Department of English |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2022-01-20 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1646021886 |
Download Aspect, Communicative Appeal, and Temporal Meaning in Biblical Hebrew Verbal Forms Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book provides a new explanation for what has long been a challenge for scholars of Biblical Hebrew: how to understand the expression of verbal tense and aspect. Working from a representative text corpus, combined with database queries of specific usages and surveys of examples discussed in the scholarly literature, Ulf Bergström gives a comprehensive overview of the semantic meanings of the verbal forms, along with a significant sample of the variation of pragmatically inferred tense, aspect, or modality (TAM) meanings. Bergström applies diachronic typology and a redefined concept of aspect to demonstrate that Biblical Hebrew verbal forms have basic aspectual and derived temporal meanings and that communicative appeal, the action-triggering function of language, affects verbal semantics and promotes the diversification of tense meanings. Bergström’s overarching explanation of the semantic development of the Biblical Hebrew verbal system is an important contribution to the study of the evolution of the verbal system and meanings of individual verbs in the Hebrew Bible. Accessibly written and structured for seminar use, Bergström’s study brings new perspectives to a debate that, in many ways, had reached a stalemate, and it challenges scholars working with TAM and the Biblical Hebrew verb to revisit their theoretical premises. Advanced students and scholars of Biblical Hebrew and other Semitic languages will find the study thought provoking, and linguists will appreciate its contributions to linguistic theory and typology.
Author | : John A. Cook |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Hebrew language |
ISBN | : |
Download The Biblical Hebrew Verbal System Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Page H. Kelley |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1994-07-08 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780802808288 |
Download A Handbook to Biblical Hebrew Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Written to facilitate study in Kelley's widely used Biblical Hebrew: An Introductory Grammar, this handbook provides a complete answer key to the exercises in the grammar as well as practical helps, footnotes, word lists, test suggestions, and other supplementary material--all written to free up valuable class time and to aid individuals studying Hebrew on their own.
Author | : Elizabeth Robar |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2014-09-18 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9004283110 |
Download The Verb and the Paragraph in Biblical Hebrew Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Research on the function and semantics of the verbal system in Hebrew (and Semitics in general) has been in constant ferment since McFall’s 1982 work The Enigma of the Hebrew Verbal System. Elizabeth Robar's analysis provides the best solution to this point, combining cognitive linguistics, cross-linguistics, diachronic and synchronic analysis. Her solution is brilliant, innovative, and supremely satisfying in interpreting all the data with great explanatory power. Let us hope this research will be quickly implemented in grammars of Hebrew." Peter J. Gentry, Donald L. Williams Professor of Old Testament Interpretation, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, KY. In The Verb and the Paragraph in Biblical Hebrew, Elizabeth Robar employs cognitive linguistics to unravel the notorious grammatical quandary in biblical Hebrew: explaining the waw consecutive, as well as other poorly understood verbal forms (e.g. with paragogic suffixes). She explains that languages must communicate the shape of thought units: including the prototypical paragraph, with its beginning, middle and ending; and its message. She demonstrates how the waw consecutive is both simpler and more nuanced than often argued. It neither foregrounds nor is a preterite, but it enables highly embedded textual structures. She also shows how allegedly anomalous forms may be used for thematic purposes, guiding the reader to the author’s intended interpretation for the text as it stands.
Author | : Jill E. Zwyghuizen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Bible |
ISBN | : |
Download Time Reference of Verbs in Biblical Hebrew Poetry Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Mark David Futato |
Publisher | : Eisenbrauns |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1575060221 |
Download Beginning Biblical Hebrew Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Achieving the right balance of amount of information, style of presentation, and depth of instruction in first-year grammars is no easy task. But Mark Futato has produced a grammar that, after years of testing in a number of institutions, will please many, with its concise, clear, and well-thought-out presentation of Biblical Hebrew. Because the teaching of biblical languages is in decline in many seminaries and universities, Futato takes pains to measure the amount of information presented in each chapter in a way that makes the quantity digestible, without sacrificing information that is important to retain. The book includes exercises that are drawn largely from the Hebrew Bible itself. Fourth printing, 2012.