This volume is a revised and enlarged version of the author's Ph.D. dissertation (1999). It gives a comprehensive analysis of the morphosyntax and syntax of the tenses in the Hebrew text of Ben Sira. Due attention is paid to the heterogeneous character of the textual evidence (three manuscripts from the Desert of Judah and six mediaeval manuscripts from the Cairo Geniza), which complicates any linguistic study of Ben Sira. A descriptive analysis is complemented by a comparison with other contemporaneous, earlier, and later forms of Hebrew. It is argued that the Hebrew of Ben Sira is a literary language in its own right, rather than an imitation of Biblical Hebrew or a predecessor of Mishnaic Hebrew.
Format: Hardback
CONTRIBUTORS: Wido Th. Peursen
EAN: 9789004136670
COUNTRY: Netherlands
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WEIGHT: 1004 g
HEIGHT: 235 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Brill
DATE PUBLISHED: 2003-11-14
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GENRE: ARCHITECTURE / Interior Design / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern, REFERENCE / General, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Bible Study Guides
WIDTH: 155 cm
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Book Themes:
Hebrew, Language: reference and general, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Christianity, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts
Willem Th. van Peursen, Ph.D. (1999), Leiden University, is post-doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Theology, Leiden University. He has published on Ben Sira, Classical Hebrew and Syriac, and is co-editor of the Concordance to the Peshitta (in progress).
