Development of the Syntax of Post-Biblical Hebrew

This volume is concerned with a historical development of the syntax of Hebrew in the post-biblical periods, more specifically from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries as used in non-artistic prose in Southern France and Spain, a period in which the language underwent some fundamental changes and developments. With his superb knowledge of all phases of Hebrew the author portrays and analyses these developments in relation to Biblical and Mishnaic Hebrew. This is a highly original and important contribution to a diachronic description of Hebrew syntax, and undoubtedly a necessary reading for any serious Hebraist and Semitist.

Chaim Rabin, Ph.D. (1939), London, D.Phil. (1943) Oxford, was a former Lecturer in Post-Biblical Hebrew at the University of Oxford and Professor of Hebrew Language at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His major publications include Ancient West-Arabian (London, 1951, Arabic translation, Kuwait 1986); Maimonides the Guide of the Perplexed (abr. translated from the Arabic) (London, 1952, Indianapolis/Cambridge, 1995); The Zadokite Documents (Oxford, 1954); Qumran Studies (Oxford, 1957, New York, 1975) and Safoth Sheimiyoth (Hebrew) Semitic Languages, an Introduction (Jerusalem, 1991).