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Subject(s)

• Bible—Language, style [Browse]

Series

• Semitic Languages and Cultures [More in this series]
• Semitic Languages and Cultures ; v.17 [More in this series]

Summary note

"This volume explores an underappreciated feature of the standard Tiberian Masoretic tradition of Biblical Hebrew, namely its composite nature. Focusing on cases of dissonance between the tradition's written (consonantal) and reading (vocalic) components, the study shows that the Tiberian spelling and pronunciation traditions, though related, interdependent, and largely in harmony, at numerous points reflect distinct oral realisations of the biblical text. Where the extant vocalisation differs from the apparently pre-exilic pronunciation presupposed by the written tradition, the former often exhibits conspicuous affinity with post-exilic linguistic conventions as seen in representative Second Temple material, such as the core Late Biblical Hebrew books, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Ben Sira, rabbinic literature, the Samaritan Pentateuch, and contemporary Aramaic and Syriac material. On the one hand, such instances of written-reading disharmony clearly entail a degree of anachronism in the vocalisation of Classical Biblical Hebrew compositions. On the other, since many of the innovative and secondary features in the Tiberian vocalisation tradition are typical of sources from the Second Temple Period and, in some cases, are documented as minority alternatives in even earlier material, the Masoretic reading tradition is justifiably characterised as a linguistic artefact of profound historical depth."--Publisher's website.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-518) and index.

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Contents

• Intro
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I: Conscious Replacement
• 1. The Tetragrammaton
• 2. and Similar
• 3. Ketiv-Qere Euphemisms
• Part II: Linguistic Developments
• 4. The Proper Name Issachar
• 5 Liqra(ʾ)ṯ
• 6. The 2MS Endings
• 7. The 2FS Endings
• 8. The Qere Perpetuum
• 9. The 2/3FPL Endings
• 10. Nifalisation
• 11. Hifilisation
• 12. Pielisation
• 13. Hitpaelisation
• 14. Ṭɛrɛm Qaṭal
• 15. Ha-Qaṭal
• 16. Wayyiqṭol
• 17. 1st-person Wayyiqṭol
• 18. I-y We-yiqṭol for Weqaṭal
• Conclusion
• References
• Index.

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ISBN

• 9781800649828
• 1800649827

OCLC

1369663912

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