Author : Yoo-Ki Kim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 10,46 MB
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004370064
This volume examines the tautological infinitive construction in Classical Biblical Hebrew in order to give a coherent and consistent explanation of its function.
Author : Scott N. Callaham
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 41,26 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9783447061582
Alongside several related ancient languages, Biblical Hebrew possesses two infinitive forms. The rarer of the two is the infinitive absolute, for which no analogous structure exists in modern translation receptor languages such as English. In studying its use, Hebrew grammarians have long noted that the infinitive absolute often appears in modal contexts. However, until the present study this phenomenon has not received further scholarly attention. Employing contemporary cross-linguistic research on modality, Callaham's study presents a new and comprehensive analysis of the function of the infi nitive absolute in Biblical Hebrew. Collected data strongly imply that the combination of an infinitive absolute and a cognate verb is a construction expressing verb focus, which includes focus on any modality present in the cognate verb. Infinitives absolute can also function as full substitutes for finite verbs. Accordingly, these independent uses are also highly modal. Through wide-ranging interaction with previous research and exhaustive examination of textual data, this study advances new findings on the interplay of modality and infinitive absolute employment in the Hebrew Bible.
Author : Iriarte Díez, Ana
Publisher : Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 39,27 MB
Release : 2022-01-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 8413404134
Cognate Infinitives have been identified and described as productive linguistic features within Arabic language and along the Semitic continuum. However, their full range of function remains largely unstudied in the spoken varieties of Arabic. This study proposes a new grammatical model for the analysis and description of Cognate Infinitives in Lebanese Arabic that accounts for this feature’s semantic, informational, affective and social functions. It suggests that Cognate Infinitives function as focus markers and are efficient communicative tools for a variety of attention management actions as well as for ‘face’ management strategies. The findings of this study therefore replace the omnipresent notion of “adverbial emphasis” with a definition of “focus” that comprises both informational and affective factors.
Author : Leonid E. Kogan
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 20,24 MB
Release : 2016-08-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1575064499
This is the ninth volume of Babel und Bibel, an annual of ancient Near Eastern, Old Testament, and Semitic studies. The principal goal of the annual is to reveal the inherent relationship between Assyriology, Semitics, and biblical studies—a relationship that our predecessors comprehended and fruitfully explored but that is often neglected today. The title Babel und Bibel is intended to point to the possibility of fruitful collaboration among the three disciplines, in an effort to explore the various civilizations of the ancient Near East. This volume includes as a major portion of its contents selected papers from the 6th Biannual Meeting of the International Association for Comparative Semitics.
Author : H. H. II Hardy
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 10,89 MB
Release : 2019-07-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1493418041
After spending countless hours studying Hebrew vocabulary, paradigms, and grammar, students may wonder how they can begin to reap the rewards of their hard work. H. H. Hardy II presents 30 grammatical concepts and their exegetical payoff to demonstrate the importance of learning Hebrew for interpreting the Old Testament. In the process, students will realize the practical value of what they have learned. This book is perfect for students looking to apply their Hebrew and for past students who wish to review the essentials of Hebrew grammar.
Author : Christo H. van der Merwe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 39,91 MB
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567663345
This new and fully revised edition of the A Biblical Hebrew Reference Grammar serves as a user-friendly and up-to-date source of information on the morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics of Biblical Hebrew verbs, nouns and other word classes (prepositions, conjunctions, adverbs, modal words, negatives, focus particles, discourse markers, interrogatives and interjections). It also contains one of the most elaborate treatments of Biblical Hebrew word order yet published in a grammar. Compiled by authors with extensive experience in the teaching of Hebrew, the text is rendered both easily accessible and a fascinating examination of the language, building upon the initial publication by incorporating up-to-date developments in the study of the Hebrew Bible. This grammar will be of service both to students who have completed an introductory or intermediate course in Biblical Hebrew, and also to more advanced scholars seeking to take advantage of traditional and recent descriptions of the language that go beyond the basic morphology of Biblical Hebrew.
Author : Stephen Huebscher
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,90 MB
Release : 2024-10-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004693696
This is the first major study of the Biblical Hebrew verbal system of a prophetic book. It is also the first book-length study in over 60 years to focus on how genre affects the Hebrew verbal system. It advances a data-driven argument that Biblical Hebrew verb forms do not function one way in prose and another way in poetry. Lastly, the author addresses the diachronic development of Hebrew between the destruction of the First Temple and the writing of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Author : Martti Nissinen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 27,51 MB
Release : 2012-01-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004205144
This volume brings together the main contributions to the 20th congress of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament (IOSOT) held in Helsinki, Finland in August, 2010, focusing on archaeology, textual history, Deuteronomistic texts, and Wisdom and apocalypticism.
Author : Marieke Dhont
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 39,61 MB
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004358498
In Style and Context of Old Greek Job, Marieke Dhont offers a new understanding of the linguistic and stylistic diversity in the Septuagint corpus. To this end, the author innovatively uses Polysystem Theory, which has been developed in the field of modern literary studies. After discussing the appropriateness of a systemic approach to understanding Jewish-Greek literature, the author reflects on the Jewishness of Greek-language texts. Dhont then presents a thorough literary analysis of the Old Greek version of the book of Job. On this basis, she explains the dynamics that produced the translation of Old Greek Job and its position within the development of a Jewish-Greek literary tradition.
Author : Peter Bekins
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 36,80 MB
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004370161
Based on author's dissertation (doctoral--Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, 2012).
