Hebrew Texts and Language of the Second Temple Period: Proceedings of an Eighth Symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ben Sira

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Hebrew Texts and Language of the Second Temple Period presents discussions on textual and linguistic aspects of the Dead Sea Scrolls and of Second Temple Hebrew corpora. Contents Preface Figures Abbreviations Chapter 1 On Some Words in Two of the Dead Sea Scrolls Chapter 2 The Aramaic Influence on Mishnaic Hebrew: Borrowing or Interference? Chapter 3 A Reappraisal of Three Philological Comparisons between Biblical Hebrew and the Hebrew of Ben Sira Chapter 4 Sixty Years of Publications on the Dead Sea Scrolls: Discoveries in the Judaean Desert in Perspective Chapter 5 Trends and Methodologies in the Study of Qumran Hebrew Chapter 6 The Word אמת in the Dead Sea Scrolls Chapter 7 The wqatal Form in Sectarian Instructive Texts Chapter 8 The Linguistic Profile of Select Reworked Bible Material vis-à-vis Masoretic Hebrew and Some Ramifications Thereof Chapter 9 The Hebrew of the Book of Jubilees at Qumran Chapter 10 The Discoveries in the Judaean Desert (DJD) Series and the Linguistic Study of Ancient Hebrew Chapter 11 Hidden and Evident Aramaic Influences on Qumran Hebrew Chapter 12 Verbal Rection in Qumran Hebrew Chapter 13 The Significance of the Finite Verb Conjugations in the Hebrew Dead Sea Scrolls Chapter 14 Aramaisms in Hymn 32 (1QHa 24:2–25:33) Chapter 15 Geminate Verbs in the Hebrew of the Wisdom of Ben Sira Chapter 16 Language and Group Identity in the Dead Sea Scrolls: The Case for an “Essene Hebrew” Chapter 17 The Infinitive Absolute in Samaritan Hebrew Chapter 18 The Use of גם and אף in Qumran Hebrew Chapter 19 Orthographic Practices in the Biblical Texts Chapter 20 Promises and Challenges in Designing Stylometric Analyses for Classical Hebrew Chapter 21 New Readings in the “Commentary on Genesis D” (4Q254a) Scroll Index of Words and Phrases Index of Ancient Texts Index of Subjects