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A Concise Lexicon of Late Biblical Hebrew: Linguistic Innovations in the Writings of the Second Temple Period

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2014
ISBN
9004266119, 9789004266117
ISSN
0083-5889
Google Books ID
p1AMBAAAQBAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4191813 bytes)
Series
Supplements to Vetus Testamentum 160
Pages
x+270\281
Topic
Linguistics Foreign
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2015-03-13 17:13:46

Description

The Hebrew language may be divided into the Biblical, Mishnaic, Medieval, and Modern ‎periods. Biblical Hebrew has its own distinct linguistic profile, exhibiting a diversity of styles ‎and linguistic traditions extending over some one thousand years as well as tangible diachronic ‎developments that may serve as chronological milestones in tracing the linguistic history of ‎Biblical Hebrew. Unlike standard dictionaries, whose scope and extent are dictated by the contents of the ‎Biblical concordance, this lexicon includes only 80 lexical entries, chosen specifically for a ‎diachronic investigation of Late Biblical Hebrew. Selected primarily to illustrate the fifth-century ‘watershed’ separating Classical from ‎post-Classical Biblical Hebrew, emphasis is placed on ‘linguistic contrasts’ illuminated by a rich collection ‎of examples contrasting Classical Biblical Hebrew with Late Biblical Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew with Rabbinic Hebrew, and Hebrew with Aramaic.‎

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