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The semantics of ancient Hebrew colour lexemes
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ISBN: 9789042923119 9042923113 Year: 2010 Volume: 33 Publisher: Leuven Paris Walpole, MA Peeters

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Colours play a vital role in the daily lives of all peoples. Truly remarkable is the human ability to see such a vast array of colours. Just as intriguing is the way languages develop lexemes to reference the colours that the eye sees. In recent years there have been many investigations into the way that languages add colour lexemes. This research has shown that languages, as a rule, follow similar definable steps in the addition of basic colour lexemes. Anthropologists have discovered that in languages of primitive cultures lexemes for colour play different roles than they do in languages of industrialised societies. Consequently studies of colour lexemes of such languages need to employ different methods of inquiry into such a language's colour vocabulary. Additional insights have been gained through the study of colour lexemes in ancient languages. This study makes a contribution to the field of the semantics of colour by investigating ancient Hebrew colour lexemes as found in the Hebrew Scriptures, ancient inscriptions, Ben Sira and Qumran. In part 1 there is a consideration of the physical phenomenon of colour and a review of recent research on languages' acquisition of colour terms. Part 2 presents the detailed analysis of each Hebrew colour lexeme according to the format of the Semantics in Ancient Hebrew Database; included is the position of each lexeme with its semantic field and the scholarly literature. This volume is produced as part of the international project, the Semantics of Ancient Hebrew Database.


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The gender challenge of Hebrew
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ISBN: 9789004282704 900428270X 9789004282711 9004282718 1322200319 Year: 2015 Volume: 42 Publisher: Leiden, Netherlands : Brill,

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The Gender Challenge of Hebrew is the first book to delve in depth into the problem of gender representation over the 3,000-year history of the Hebrew language. By analyzing and illustrating the grammatical characteristics of gender in Biblical, Mishnaic, Medieval and Modern Hebrew, Malka Muchnik reveals the social and cultural issues that they reflect. Gender discrimination in all periods of Hebrew is shown in sacred, liturgical and literary texts, as well as in the popular language spoken today. All of them testify to the problematic status of women, who were traditionally excluded from religious studies and public activities, and in recent decades have been struggling to change this practice. Malka Muchnik shows that linguistic change remains a challenging goal.

Chanting the Hebrew Bible : the art of cantillation
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ISBN: 9780827606937 0827606931 Year: 2002 Publisher: Philadelphia Jewish Publication Society

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The Greek of the ancient synagogue : an investigation on the Greek of the Septuagint, pseudepigrapha and the new testament
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ISBN: 9122019286 Year: 2001 Publisher: Stockholm : Almqvist & Wiksell,


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A syntax of Qumran Hebrew
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ISBN: 9789042940253 9042940255 Year: 2020 Publisher: Leuven Paris Bristol, CT Peeters

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This is the first, comprehensive description of the syntax of Qumran Hebrew, a language in which the Hebrew documents discovered in the eleven Qumran caves and at some sites in the Judaean desert are written. Features described include, for instance, the values and functions of the status constructus, tense, aspect and mood of the verb, the word order, the grammatical agreement or lack of it in gender and number, the concord or concatenation, the government of the verb. Comparison is constantly made with Biblical Hebrew and Mishnaic - Rabbinic Hebrew. This is important to see the position of Qumran Hebrew in the history of Hebrew. Copiously cited original texts are provided with an English translation by the author. That knowledge of the syntax of this Hebrew is important and has implications for textual criticism of these texts and other compartments such as orthography, phonology, morphology, lexicography, and stylistics is shown with concrete examples.0.


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The semantics of silence in biblical Hebrew
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ISSN: 00818461 ISBN: 9789004414174 9004414177 9789004414648 9004414649 Year: 2020 Volume: volume 100 Publisher: Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill,

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"In The Semantics of Silence in Biblical Hebrew, Sonja Noll explores the many words in biblical Hebrew that refer to being silent, investigating how they are used in biblical texts, Dead Sea Scrolls, and Ben Sira. She also examines the tradition of interpretation for these words in the early versions (Septuagint, Vulgate, Targum, Peshitta), modern translations, and standard dictionaries, revealing that meanings are not always straightforward and that additional work is needed in biblical semantics and lexicography. The traditional approach to comparative Semitics, with its over-simplistic assumption of semantic equivalence in cognates, is also challenged. The surprising conclusion of the work is that there is no single concept of silence in the biblical world; rather, it spans multiple semantic fields".


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The language environment of first century Judea
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ISBN: 9789004263406 9789004264410 9004263403 Year: 2014 Volume: 26/2 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill


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Aramaic in postbiblical Judaism and early Christianity : papers from the 2004 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar at Duke University
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ISBN: 1575066181 9781575066189 1575061783 9781575061788 Year: 2010 Publisher: Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns,


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The story of Hebrew
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ISBN: 9780691153292 0691153299 Year: 2017 Publisher: Princeton Princeton University Press


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Biblical Lexicology: Hebrew and Greek
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ISBN: 9783110312065 3110312069 9783110312164 9783110383119 Year: 2015 Volume: 443 Publisher: Berlin Boston

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Lexicography, together with grammatical studies and textual criticism, forms the basis of biblical exegesis. Recent decades have seen much progress in this field, yet increasing specialization also tends to have the paradoxical effect of turning exegesis into an independent discipline, while leaving lexicography to the experts. The present volume seeks to renew and intensify the exchange between the study of words and the study of texts. --

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