New Perspectives in Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew

Description

Most of the papers in this volume originated as presentations at the conference Biblical Hebrew and Rabbinic Hebrew: New Perspectives in Philology and Linguistics, which was held at the University of Cambridge, 8–10th July, 2019. The aim of the conference was to build bridges between various strands of research in the field of Hebrew language studies that rarely meet, namely philologists working on Biblical Hebrew, philologists working on Rabbinic Hebrew and theoretical linguists. This volume is the published outcome of this initiative. It contains peer-reviewed papers in the fields of Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew that advance the field by the philological investigation of primary sources and the application of cutting-edge linguistic theory. These include contributions by established scholars and by students and early career researchers. Contents Contributors Preface Abstracts Aaron Koller - The Alphabetic Revolution, Writing Systems, and Scribal Training in Ancient Israel Nick Posegay - Hissing, Gnashing, Piercing, Cracking: Naming Vowels in Medieval Hebrew Steven E. Fassberg - III-y Imperatives in Ancient Hebrew Jorik (F. J.) Groen - Frequency, Analogy, and Suppletion: √hlk in the Semitic Languages Ariel Gabbay - On the Morphology of the Guttural Verbs in Sephardic Traditions in the Early Modern Period Na’ama Pat-El - Comparative Semitic and Hebrew Plural Morphemes Elisheva Jeffay - Proper Names as Predicates in Biblical Hebrew Chanan Ariel - The Shift from the Biblical Hebrew Far Demonstrative ההוא to Mishnaic Hebrew אותו Bo Isaksson - Biblical Hebrew Short Yiqṭol and the ‘Consecutive Tenses’ Elizabeth Robar - The Rise of Wayyiqṭol Ambjörn Sjörs - Notes on the Lengthened Imperfect Consecutive in Late Biblical Hebrew Geoffrey Khan - The Coding of Discourse Dependency in Biblical Hebrew Consecutive Weqaṭal and Wayyiqṭol Aaron D. Hornkohl - A Tense Question: Does Hebrew Have a Future? Ethan Jones - On Pragmatics and Grammar in Biblical Hebrew: Predicate Adjectives and Stative Verbs Ellen van Wolde - Nifʿal Verbs in the Book of Genesis and Their Contribution to Meaning Daniel Wilson - הָיָה in Biblical Hebrew Lutz Edzard - The Coordination of Biblical Hebrew Finite Verb Forms and Infinitives in Comparative Semitic and Typological Perspective Cody Kingham - Parts of Speech in Biblical Hebrew Time Phrases: A Cognitive-Statistical Analysis Christian Locatell - Polysemous Adverbial Conjunctions in Biblical Hebrew: An Application of Diachronic Semantic Maps Cynthia L. Miller-Naudé and Jacobus A. Naudé - Differentiating Left Dislocation Constructions in Biblical Hebrew Christo H. J. van der Merwe - Biblical Hebrew and Cognitive Linguistics: A General Orientation Tania Notarius - From לוּ חַ to סֵפֶר and Back: An Episode in Biblical Hebrew Historical Linguistics Gary A. Rendsburg - Israelian Hebrew in the Book of Amos Yehonatan Wormser - Attitudes towards Rabbinic Hebrew as Reflected in Hebrew Grammars during the Jewish Enlightenment Index