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urn:uuid:cdb4338a-df04-425e-a17b-d383d96f2cb3 03 15 9781805114376 00 EB E107 10 10 02 26326914 01 02 Semitic Languages and Cultures 01 01 Diachronic Diversity in Classical Biblical Hebrew 1 A01 Aaron D. Hornkohl <p>Aaron D. Hornkohl (PhD, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2012) is University Associate Professor in Hebrew, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge. His research focuses on ancient Hebrew philology and linguistics, especially historical linguistics and ancient Hebrew periodisation; the components of the standard Tiberian Masoretic biblical tradition; and that tradition’s profile in the context of other biblical traditions and extrabiblical sources. This is his third single-author monograph after The Historical Depth of the Tiberian Reading Tradition of Biblical Hebrew (Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2023) and Ancient Hebrew Periodization and the Book of Jeremiah (Leiden: Brill 2014). He has also co-edited several volumes and written numerous articles.</p> 01 eng 00 270 03 23 Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures 23 Classical Biblical Hebrew 04 PJ4527 10 REL006210 23 Diachronic linguistics 23 Linguistics 10 REL006630 23 Archaeology and Religion 23 Historical Hebrew language 10 REL006090 10 LAN009010 23 Textual analysis 23 Language evolution 01 06 03 00 <p>According to the standard periodisation of ancient Hebrew, the division of Biblical Hebrew as reflected in the Masoretic tradition is basically dichotomous: pre-exilic Classical Biblical Hebrew (CBH) versus post-Restoration Late Biblical Hebrew (LBH). Within this paradigm, the chronolectal unity of CBH is rarely questioned—this despite the reasonable expectation that the language of a corpus encompassing traditions of various ages and comprising works composed, edited, and transmitted over the course of centuries would show signs of diachronic development. From the perspective of historical evolution, CBH is remarkably homogenous. Within this apparent uniformity, however, there are indeed signs of historical development, sets of alternant features whose respective concentrations seem to divide CBH into two sub-chronolects. The most conspicuous typological division that emerges is between the CBH of the Pentateuch and that of the relevant Prophets and Writings. The present volume investigates a series of features that distinguish the two ostensible CBH sub-chronolects, weighs alternative explanations for distribution patterns that appear to have chronological significance, and considers broader implications for Hebrew diachrony and periodisation and for the composition of the Torah.</p> 04 00 Acknowledgements.......................................................... vii Abbreviations ................................................................... ix Preface.............................................................................. xi Introduction....................................................................... 1 Part I: Variation Perceptible in the Combined Tiberian biblical Reading-Written tradition .................... 25 1. The Onomasticon with and without yahu Names........ 27 2. 1st-person wayyiqṭol Morphology ................................ 39 3. Qal versus hifʿil Forms of ף"יס ...................................... 57 89 ............................. מֵ אָ ה versus Absolute מְ אַ ת 4. Construct 5. Qal Internal Passive versus nifʿal Morphology........... 107 127 ......................................................... זע"ק versus צע"ק .6 139 ................................................. אֲ נַ חְ נו versus נַ חְ נו 7. 1CPL Part II: Variation Limited to the Written Component of the Tiberian Biblical Tradition .................................. 143 8. FS הוא versus יא ִה ........................................................ 145 9. FPL ן- versus ה ָנ- .......................................................... 155 10. נער versus נערה with Feminine Singular Referent .... 167 11. Abstract Nouns Ending in -ūt................................... 177 12. Orthography ............................................................183 Conclusion .....................................................................203 References......................................................................209 Passage Index.................................................................229 Subject Index .................................................................249 Open Book Publishers 01 Open Book Publishers 04 01 20241111 02 WORLD 06 15 9781805114352 06 15 9781805114369 06 15 9781805114376 WORLD 09 Open Book Publishers 20 01