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Subject(s)

• Hebrew language—Tense [Browse]
• Hebrew poetry, Biblical—History and criticism [Browse]

Series

• Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; 68. [More in this series]
• Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics, 0081-8461 ; v. 68 [More in this series]

Summary note

The Verb in Archaic Biblical Poetry: A Discursive, Typological, and Historical Investigation of the Tense System offers a comprehensive analysis of the syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, and discursive properties of the verb in the corpus of archaic\' biblical poetry (The Song of Moses, Song of the Sea, Song of Deborah, Song of David, Blessing of Jacob, Oracles of Balaam, Blessing of Moses, and Song of Hannah). The approach integrates modern research on tense, aspect, and modality, while also addressing the complicated philological issues in these texts. The study presents discursive analysis of biblical poetic texts, systemic description of each text’s tense system, and reconstruction of the archaic verbal tenses as attested in part of the corpus.

Notes

Title from PDF title page (viewed on July 25, 2013).

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• pt. 1. Introduction : the linguistic analysis of verbal tenses in Biblical poetic texts
• pt. 2. Corpus analyses
• pt. 3. The verb tenses in archaic Hebrew : a typological and historical evaluation.

ISBN

90-04-25335-1

OCLC

• 853238598
• 853684022

Doi

• 10.1163/9789004253353

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