Author | : Anson F. Rainey |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9789004105249 |
Author | : Anson F. Rainey |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9789004105249 |
Author | : Anson F. Rainey |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 1164 |
Release | : 2015-11-02 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 900429399X |
This four-volume reference work deals with the language of the Amarna letters written by scribes who had adopted a peculiar dialect mixture of Accadian and West Semitic syntax. In addition to the texts from Canaan, a few from Alashia are included along with the texts from Kamed el-Loz and Taanach. Each of the first three volumes is written as a separate monograph; together they treat the problems of morphology and syntax. The first volume covers writing, pronouns and nouns (substantives, adjectives and numerals); the second volume treats the verbal system; and the third volume discusses particles and adverbs with a chapter on word order. The fourth volume includes the bibliography and index to the set. Since these texts are the earliest witness to West Semitic syntax, they are an invaluable source for the historical study of the North West Semitic family, including biblical Hebrew.
Author | : John A. Cook |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2012-10-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1575066815 |
In this book John Cook interacts with the range of approaches to the perennial questions on the Biblical Hebrew verb in a fair-minded approach. Some of his answers may appear deceptively traditional, such as his perfective-imperfective identification of the qatal–yiqtol opposition. However, his approach is distinguished from the traditional approaches by its modern linguistic foundation. One distinguishing sign is his employment of the phrase “aspect prominent” to describe the Biblical Hebrew verbal system. As with almost any of the world’s verbal systems, this aspect-prominent system can express a wide range of aspectual, tensed, and modal meanings. In chap. 3, he argues that each of the forms can be semantically identified with a general meaning and that the expressions of specific aspectual, tensed, and modal meanings by each form are explicable with reference to its general meaning. After a decade of research and creative thinking, the author has come to frame his discussion not with the central question of “Tense or Aspect?” but with the question “What is the range of meaning for a given form, and what sort of contextual factors (syntagm, discourse, etc.) help us to understand this range in relation to a general meaning for the form?” In chap. 4 Cook addresses long-standing issues involving interaction between the semantics of verbal forms and their discourse pragmatic functions. He also proposes a theory of discourse modes for Biblical Hebrew. These discourse modes account for various temporal relationships that are found among successive clauses in Biblical Hebrew. Cook’s work addresses old questions with a fresh approach that is sure to provoke dialogue and new research.
Author | : Wolfgang Behn |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 732 |
Release | : 2004-12-01 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9047414357 |
This third and last of the three-volume Who’s Who in Islamic Studies presents the scholarly world at long last with its own biographical encyclopaedia. Taking as a starting point the inventory of authors from the renowned Index Islamicus, the author, Wolfgang Behn (Berlin), has systematically collected numerous data on the lives and works of the tens of thousands of authors listed in the Index Islamicus from 1665 to 1980. This Biographical Companion will be an indispensable reference tool for the serious student and scholar of Islamic Studies. It enables the user to quickly gain knowledge on the life, work, and professional background of almost every major and minor author, and thus to place each author in his/her proper perspective. A tremendous achievement and a true must for every library.
Author | : Clive Holes |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2021-06-09 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9047407954 |
The second volume of this three-volume series provides a fascinating insight into the life, culture and society, in their own words, of Gulf Arabs of the pre-oil generation, covering such subjects as pearl-diving, agriculture, marriage, communal relations, domestic life, and childhood.
Author | : Hans Daiber |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 554 |
Release | : 2023-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004534040 |
The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004113473).
Author | : Hans Daiber |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 554 |
Release | : 2023-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004534032 |
The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004113473).
Author | : Alan Avery-Peck |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2015-11-02 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9004294147 |
Thirteen foremost scholars describe the views of death, life after death, resurrection, and the world-to-come set forth in the literary evidence for late antique Judaism. The volume covers the vie w of Scripture as a whole as against other Israelite writings; distinct parts of Scripture such as Psalms and the Wisdom literature; apocalyptic and the non-apocalyptic pseudepigraphic literature, Philo; Josephus; the Dead Sea Scrolls; earliest Christianity (the Gospels in particular); the Rabbinic sources; the Palestinian Targums to the Pentateuch; and, out of material culture, the inscriptional evidence. The result is both to highlight the range of available perspectives on this important issue and to illuminate a central problem in the study of Judaism in late antiquity, phrased neatly as “One Judaism or many?” Here we place on display indicative components of Judaism in their full diversity, leaving it for readers to determine whether the notion of a single, coherent religion falls under the weight of a mass of documentary contradictions or whether an inner harmony shines forth from a repertoire of largely shared and only superficially-diverse data.