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A Concise Lexicon of Late Biblical Hebrew
Linguistic Innovations in the Writings of the Second Temple Period
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The Hebrew language may be divided into the Biblical, Mishnaic, Medieval, and Modern âperiods. Biblical Hebrew has its own distinct linguistic profile, exhibiting a diversity of styles âand linguistic traditions extending over some one thousand years as well as tangible diachronic âdevelopments that may serve as chronological milestones in tracing the linguistic history of âBiblical Hebrew. Unlike standard dictionaries, whose scope and extent are dictated by the contents of the âBiblical concordance, this lexicon includes only 80 lexical entries, chosen specifically for a âdiachronic investigation of Late Biblical Hebrew. Selected primarily to illustrate the fifth-century âwatershedâ separating Classical from âpost-Classical Biblical Hebrew, emphasis is placed on âlinguistic contrastsâ illuminated by a rich collection âof examples contrasting Classical Biblical Hebrew with Late Biblical Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew with Rabbinic Hebrew, and Hebrew with Aramaic.â
Avi Hurvitz, Ph.D. (1967). Professor Emeritus, Bible & Hebrew Language Departments, Hebrew University. He has published extensively on the linguistic nature and historical setting of Post-Classical Biblical Hebrew and its contribution for dating purposes. Hurvitz has been on the Editorial Board of Vetus Testamentum (Brill) and a member of the Israel Academy of the Hebrew Language.
"Provided that there are those readers out there who sympathize with diachronic approaches to Hebrew (indeed there are many) and those who are concerned with semantic change rather than the kind of information that lexica typically have on offer (there are some), Hurvitzâs lexicon will undoubtedly be a milestone for the research of Late Biblical Hebrew in the years to come."
Kurtis Peters, Vancouver, Canada
Kurtis Peters, Vancouver, Canada
Research institutes, academic libraries, Biblical philologists, Hebrew linguists, Semiticists, scholars of Bible and the Second Temple period