Full Description
The essays in this volume arose out of the Society of Biblical Literature section on linguistics and Biblical Hebrew and have been selected to provide a summary and statement of the state of the question with regard to a number of areas of investigation. The sixteen articles are organized into sections on phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, discourse analysis, historical/comparative linguistics, and graphemics.
Contents
Editor's Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Walter R. Bodine - The Study of Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew
Phonology: Structural
Monica S. Devens - What Descriptive Phonologists Do: One Approach to the Study of Language, with Particular Attention to Biblical Hebrew
E. J. Revell - The Development of Segol in an Open Syllable as a Reflex of a: An Exercise in Descriptive Phonology
Phonology: Generative
Edward L. Greenstein - An Introduction to a Generative Phonology of Biblical Hebrew
Gregory Enos - Phonological Considerations in the Study of Hebrew Phonetics: An Introductory Discussion
Morphology
W. Randall Garr - The Linguistic Study of Morphology
Gary A. Rendsburg - Morphological Evidence for Regional Dialects in Ancient Hebrew
Syntax
Walter R. Bodine - How Linguists Study Syntax
Barry L. Bandstra - Word Order and Emphasis in Biblical Hebrew Narrative: Syntactic Observations on Genesis 22 from a Discourse Perspective
Semantics
Harold P. Scanlin - The Study of Semantics in General Linguistics
James Barr - Hebrew Lexicography: Informal Thoughts
Discourse Analysis
Peter J. MacDonald - Discourse Analysis and Biblical Interpretation
R. E. Longacre - Discourse Perspective on the Hebrew Verb: Affirmation and Restatement
Historical/Comparative Linguistics
Alice Faber - Innovation, Retention, and Language Comparison: An Introduction to Historical/Comparative Linguistics
John Huehnergard - Historical Phonology and the Hebrew Piel
Graphemics
M. O'Connor - Writing Systems and Native-Speaker Analyses
Stephen J. Lieberman - Toward a Graphemics of the Tiberian Bible
Appendix
Walter R. Bodine - Bibliography
Indexes
Index of Authorities
Index of Scripture References
