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.
Table of Contents
Contents
Contributors
Preface
Aaron D. Hornkohl and Geoffrey Khan
Abstracts
The Alphabetic Revolution, Writing Systems, and Scribal Training in Ancient Israel
Aaron Koller
Hissing, Gnashing, Piercing, Cracking: Naming Vowels in Medieval Hebrew
Nick Posegay
III-y Imperatives in Ancient Hebrew
Steven E. Fassberg
Frequency, Analogy, and Suppletion: √hlk in the Semitic Languages
Jorik (F. J.) Groen
On the Morphology of the Guttural Verbs in Sephardic Traditions in the Early Modern Period
Ariel Gabbay
Comparative Semitic and Hebrew Plural Morphemes
Na’ama Pat-El
Proper Names as Predicates in Biblical Hebrew
Elisheva Jeffay
The Shift from the Biblical Hebrew Far Demonstrative ההוא to Mishnaic Hebrew אותו
Chanan Ariel
Biblical Hebrew Short Yiqṭol and the ‘Consecutive Tenses’
Bo Isaksson
The Rise of Wayyiqṭol
Elizabeth Robar
Notes on the Lengthened Imperfect Consecutive in Late Biblical Hebrew
Ambjörn Sjörs
The Coding of Discourse Dependency in Biblical Hebrew Consecutive Weqaṭal and Wayyiqṭol
Geoffrey Khan
A Tense Question: Does Hebrew Have a Future?
Aaron D. Hornkohl
On Pragmatics and Grammar in Biblical Hebrew: Predicate Adjectives and Stative Verbs
Ethan Jones
Nifʿal Verbs in the Book of Genesis and Their Contribution to Meaning
Ellen van Wolde
הָיָה in Biblical Hebrew
Daniel Wilson
The Coordination of Biblical Hebrew Finite Verb Forms and Infinitives in Comparative Semitic and Typological Perspective
Lutz Edzard
Parts of Speech in Biblical Hebrew Time Phrases: A Cognitive-Statistical Analysis
Cody Kingham
Polysemous Adverbial Conjunctions in Biblical Hebrew: An Application of Diachronic Semantic Maps
Christian Locatell
Differentiating Left Dislocation Constructions in Biblical Hebrew
Cynthia L. Miller-Naudé and Jacobus A. Naudé
Biblical Hebrew and Cognitive Linguistics: A General Orientation
Christo H. J. van der Merwe
From לוּ חַ to סֵפֶר and Back: An Episode in Biblical Hebrew Historical Linguistics
Tania Notarius
Israelian Hebrew in the Book of Amos
Gary A. Rendsburg
Attitudes towards Rabbinic Hebrew as Reflected in Hebrew Grammars during the Jewish Enlightenment
Yehonatan Wormser
Index