The CAD and Biblical Hebrew Lexicography: The Role of Akkadian Cognates

2011 ◽  
pp. 719-730
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Hebrew

The Impact of Contact Languages on the Grammaticalization of the Modern Hebrew Superlative

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 271-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yael Reshef
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Hebrew ◽  
Comparison Class ◽  
Textual Evidence ◽  
Modern Hebrew ◽  
Positive Adjective ◽  
The Impact

Modern Hebrew grammatical constructions include a tripartite paradigm of degree comparison consisting of the positive adjective, the comparative, and the superlative. Such a paradigm did not exist in classical Hebrew, and the expression of the superlative in both Biblical Hebrew and Rabbinic Hebrew required reference to a comparison class by means of a noun. Based on an examination of textual evidence from the initial phases of the formation of Modern Hebrew, this article traces the emergence of the modern superlative constructions and evaluates the role of contact languages in the process.

Bound Pronominal Objects in Biblical Hebrew: Clarification and Critique

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 363-375
Author(s):  
Ethan Jones
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Hebrew ◽  
Prepositional Phrases ◽  
Do So

Abstract This article builds on the ideas of W.R. Garr who argues persuasively that bound pronominal objects are highly topical, patientive and central to predication. Garr has made an important contribution to the study of bound forms, concurring with Jou.on and countering Muraoka. In his argument, Garr assumes that prepositional phrases are non-obligatory participants (adjuncts). My analysis refutes his assumption about prepositional phrases yet shows his argument for bound pronominal objects still holds. I attempt to further Garrfs contribution by clarifying the role of prepositional phrases and thus strengthening his claim on bound forms. I do so by analysing (Piel), a frequently occurring verb.

Gender Equality in Yefet Ben ʿElī’s Commentary and Karaite Halakhah

AJS Review ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilana Sasson
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Tenth Century ◽  
Biblical Hebrew ◽  
Wisdom Literature ◽  
Logical Inference ◽  
Biblical Narrative ◽  
Inheritance Laws

Researching the translation and commentary of the tenth century Karaite scholar and exegete Yefet ben ʿElī on the Book of Proverbs, numerous statements that seemed to ring with egalitarianism were found. Some of these statements found in Yefet's commentary on wisdom literature and biblical narrative will be examined in this article. One case in which he speculates on biblical Hebrew syntax will also be examined. Gender equality in Yefet's work is anchored in the principle of logical inference, also known as analogy,qiyās, which served as one of the three major sources for the determination of Karaite halakhah. This article includes also a brief discussion of the role ofqiyāsin Karaite halakhah on marriage, divorce, and inheritance laws.

What is universal and what is language-specific in emotion words?

1997 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Myhill
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Hebrew ◽  
Specific Component ◽  
Emotion Words ◽  
Emotion Word ◽  
Thought Pattern ◽  
Human Emotions ◽  
General Meaning

This paper proposes a model for the analysis of emotions in which each emotion word in each language is made up of a universal component and a language-specific component; the universal component is drawn from a set of universal human emotions which underlie all emotion words in all languages, and the language-specific component involves a language-particular thought pattern which is expressed as part of the meanings of a variety of different words in the language. The meanings of a variety of emotion words of Biblical Hebrew are discussed and compared with the meanings of English words with the same general meaning; it is shown that a number of the Biblical Hebrew words (though by no means all) directly represent the biblical conception of God and the role of God combined with one or another of the proposed universal emotions.

The death of a virtuous woman? Proverbs 31.10-31, gnomic qatal, and the role of translation in the analysis of the Hebrew verbal system

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 284-300
Author(s):  
Kasper Siegismund
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Content ◽  
Biblical Hebrew ◽  
Verbal System ◽  
Biblical Poetry ◽  
Relative Tense ◽  
Present Tense

This article draws attention to the phenomenon of translation-based interference in the analysis of Biblical Hebrew. It is argued that the so-called gnomic qatal only exists when we translate certain passages in a certain way. Based on Joüon’s approach to the verbs in Prov 31.10-31, it is demonstrated that it is possible to interpret the woman in the poem as deceased. Consequently, the predominant verbal forms in the passage ( qatal and wayyiqtol) are not gnomic, contrary to the almost universal rendering of the forms as present tense in modern translations. Rather, they have their usual anterior meaning. Other examples of translation-based interference in the analysis of Biblical Hebrew (including the question of the verbs in biblical poetry) are discussed, and a case is made for relative tense as the appropriate category for describing the semantic content of the basic opposition between the (non-volitive) finite verbal forms.

Linguistics, Philology, and the Role of Theory

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert D. Holmstedt
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Biblical Hebrew ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
Comprehensive Review ◽  
Is Research ◽  
Contemporary Research ◽  
Language Analysis ◽  
Theory Of Language ◽  
Reading Texts

What is “philology” in contemporary research? How does it relate to linguistics? Does studying language for the purpose of reading texts legitimise a pre-theoretical approach to language analysis? Is research without an explicit theoretical undergirding (no matter how deep beneath the overt layers of argument) anything more than naive empiricism? This essay addresses a long-standing issue in Biblical Hebrew studies that has recently flared up: is a theory of language necessary for the study of Biblical Hebrew grammar? Rather than a comprehensive review of literature on the study of Biblical Hebrew, this essay is programmatic, weaving questions of discipline, theory, and praxis together to present a case for how Biblical Hebrew linguists ought to orient themselves in the process of collecting and analysing their data.

Theoretical Approaches to Anaphora and Pronouns in Biblical Hebrew

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia L. Miller-Naudé ◽  
Jacobus A. Naudé
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Biblical Hebrew ◽  
Second Century ◽  
Human Language ◽  
Generative Linguistics ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Current State ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

Apollonius Dyscolus (second century C.E.) defined the pronoun not merely as a noun substitute but implied that a pronoun may refer to nouns anaphorically. The study of Latin scarcely improved the knowledge of anaphora and pronouns and, for centuries, thinking about anaphora and pronouns was essentially limited to the activity of compiling inventories of grammatical categories and virtually no attention was given to the role of anaphora and pronouns in syntax and discourse as such. New insights into the description and explanation of the distribution of anaphora and pronouns in human language came in the late twentieth century with the advent of Chomsky’s generative linguistics. This paper presents the current state of knowledge regarding anaphora and pronouns in Biblical Hebrew as well as the unresolved issues and questions open for further research.

scholarly journals THE PARADIGMATIC ROLE OF GENESIS 3 FOR READING BIBLICAL NARRATIVE ABOUT DESIRE

2019 ◽  
pp. 87-102
Author(s):  
CEPHAS TUSHIMA
Keyword(s):  
Deviant Behavior ◽  
Sexual Politics ◽  
Biblical Hebrew ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Biblical Narrative ◽  
Genesis 3 ◽  
Power Play

The biblical Hebrew texts of sexual politics (often involving sordid sexual violence, especially against women) have been studied in the last forty years with an ideological bent that employs contemporary literary analysis. This essay is an attempt to allow the biblical text to furnish strategies for reading its troubling narratives rather than imposing external ideologies over it. An ethical narrative close reading of the text of primeval desire (Gen 3) led me to the discovery of four themes—desire, particularly its derivative, sexual passion; power-play; alterity; and peril— and to the biblical authors’ characterization of God in divine response to human deviant behavior as heuristic tools for reading these texts of desire.

Role of dactinomycin in the improved survival of children with Wilms' tumor

JAMA ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 195 (12) ◽  
pp. 1005-1009 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. Fernbach
Keyword(s):  
Wilms Tumor
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