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Author:   W. Randall Garr ,  Steven E. Fassberg
Publisher:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Imprint:   Eisenbrauns
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.885kg
ISBN:  

9781575063713

ISBN 10:   1575063719
Pages:   348
Publication Date:   19 September 2016
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Volume 1 contains contains discussions of the various stages of Biblical Hebrew's development; Volume 2 contains sample texts and illustrations of the reading traditions Preface Part I Phases of Biblical Hebrew 1. Standard/Classical Biblical Hebrew Joseph Lam and Dennis Pardee 2. Archaic Biblical Hebrew Agustinus Gianto 3. Transitional Biblical Hebrew Aaron D. Hornkohl 4. Late Biblical Hebrew Matthew Morgenstern Part II Contemporary Hebrew Attestations 5. Epigraphic Hebrew Shmuel Aḥituv, W. Randall Garr, and Steven E. Fassberg 6. Ben Sira Wido van Peursen 7. The Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls Jan Joosten Part III Ancient and Medieval Reading Traditions 8. Hebrew in Greek and Latin Transcriptions Alexey Eliyahu Yuditsky 9. Samaritan Tradition Moshe Florentin 10. Babylonian Tradition Shai Heijmans 11. Karaite Transcriptions of Biblical Hebrew Geoffrey Khan 12. Palestinian Tradition Joseph Yahalom 13. Tiberian-Palestinian Tradition Holger Gzella Part IV Essays 14. The Tiberian Tradition of Reading the Bible and the Masoretic System Yosef Ofer 15. The Contribution of Tannaitic Hebrew to Understanding Biblical Hebrew Moshe Bar-Asher 16. Modern Reading Traditions of Biblical Hebrew Aharon Maman

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While handbooks of Hebrew abound, this collection of essays does not stop with a technical linguistic treatment but introduces readers to the communities using and preserving these texts. The authors collectively present a nuanced history of Biblical Hebrew that traces its evolution from a spoken and written Iron Age language to a language used in more specialized contexts. The handbook's primary achievement is the inclusion of lesser-known religious and scholarly communities. . . . This broad perspective could fill a lacuna in the education of most students, especially those unfamiliar with the reading traditions of the Samaritans, Karaites, and modern Jewish communities. -Alice Mandell, Review of Biblical Literature

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