Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
מגילות; מחקרים במגילות מדבר יהודה
Angaben zur Quelle:
טו (תשף-תשפא) 303-308
Keywords:
Qimron, Elisha.
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Dead Sea scrolls Language, style
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Hebrew language, Post-Biblical
Abstract:
Ever since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, one line of inquiryinto these unique historical sources has been linguistic. While trying toaccurately describe the “new” Hebrew dialect, scholars have disagreed onthe exact nature of Qumran Hebrew and its relationship to the language ofthe Bible and tannaitic writings. In his Grammar of the Hebrew of the DeadSea Scrolls, Elisha Qimron – the eminent scholar of that language variety –presents his view of the language of the scrolls along with the most detaileddescription (yet) of its orthographic practices, phonology and morphology,as well as selected topics in syntax. Qimron essentially accords QumranHebrew the status of primus inter pares. Primus, because of the antiquityof the source texts (which unlike other attestations of Hebrew were notmediated by a chain of scribes for almost one millennium) and the sizeof the corpus. And inter pares, because Qimron readily acknowledges theimportance of the linguistic information contained in the other traditionsof Hebrew, to which he constantly refers for comparison. The volumebrims with innovative philological discussions of Qumran Hebrew (andBiblical Hebrew) forms, and will serve both Hebraists and scholars whostudy the scrolls from a literary angle.The grammar provides an importantcounterpoint to Qimron’s three-volume edition of the Scrolls.
Note:
With an English summary.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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