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urn:uuid:c2cf1745-1573-4edf-a4de-4d0609b65eb6 03 01 01 urn:uuid:c2cf1745-1573-4edf-a4de-4d0609b65eb6 15 9781783749553 06 10.11647/OBP.0210 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 01 01 The Linguistic Classification of the Reading Traditions of Biblical Hebrew A Phyla-and-Waves Model 1 A01 Benjamin Paul Kantor 01 eng 00 228 03 20 Biblical Hebrew B2 Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures 12 CFF 93 CFF 04 PJ4579 10 REL006020 12 CFP 10 LAN009010 B2 Linguistics 20 Philology 93 QRMF1 B2 Archaeology and Religion 20 Tiberian pointing 20 Leningrad Codex 20 Byzantine Palestine 20 Medieval Hebrew 03 00 <p>In recent decades, the field of Biblical Hebrew philology and linguistics has been witness to a growing interest in the diverse traditions of Biblical Hebrew. Indeed, while there is a tendency for many students and scholars to conceive of Biblical Hebrew as equivalent with the Tiberian pointing of the Leningrad Codex as it appears in Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS), there are many other important reading traditions attested throughout history. </p><p>Origen’s Secunda reflects a late Roman reading tradition of Biblical Hebrew transcribed into Greek letters. Occasional transcriptions of Biblical Hebrew into Latin letters in Jerome’s commentaries similarly reflect a reading tradition from early Byzantine Palestine. In the medieval period, alongside Tiberian Hebrew we also find the Babylonian tradition and the Palestinian tradition. The modern oral reading tradition of the Samaritan community also likely has roots in the Second Temple period. </p><p>Aside from these primary attestations of the reading traditions, there are a whole host of other modern reading traditions of Biblical Hebrew, from Ashkenazi, to Sephardi, and Yemenite. Despite the rich diversity of traditions of Biblical Hebrew at our fingertips, the linguistic relationship between them has never been mapped out. In this book, then, the phyla-and-waves methodology, which has been used for Semitic language classification, is used to map out the relationship between the main reading traditions of Biblical Hebrew throughout history.</p> 04 00 Acknowledgments Abbreviations 1. Introduction 2. Methodology 3. The Historical Attestations of the Biblical Hebrew Reading Traditions 4. PHYLA: ‘Shared Innovations’ among the Reading Traditions 5. WAVES: Influence, Contact, and Convergence 6. Relationship of the Reading Traditions Works Cited Index 20 00 Open Access Open Book Publishers 01 Open Book Publishers Cambridge, UK 04 01 20230830 13 15 9781783749546 09 Open Book Publishers 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0210 99 01 09 Open Book Publishers 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0210.pdf 99 01