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urn:uuid:eb3ec30b-4957-45e2-8356-06045f349fa7 03 01 01 urn:uuid:eb3ec30b-4957-45e2-8356-06045f349fa7 15 9781800649828 06 10.11647/OBP.0310 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 10 01 02 17 Semitic Languages and Cultures 01 01 The Historical Depth of the Tiberian Reading Tradition of Biblical Hebrew 1 A01 Aaron D. Hornkohl First edition. 01 eng 00 558 03 04 BS718 B2 Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures 12 HRAX 10 REL006020 12 HRCG B2 Literature 10 REL006630 12 HRCG9 B2 Linguistics 10 REL006700 B2 Archaeology and Religion 12 CFF 10 LAN009010 01 06 03 00 <p>This volume explores an underappreciated feature of the standard Tiberian Masoretic tradition of Biblical Hebrew, namely its composite nature. Focusing on cases of dissonance between the tradition’s written (consonantal) and reading (vocalic) components, the study shows that the Tiberian spelling and pronunciation traditions, though related, interdependent, and largely in harmony, at numerous points reflect distinct oral realisations of the biblical text. Where the extant vocalisation differs from the apparently pre-exilic pronunciation presupposed by the written tradition, the former often exhibits conspicuous affinity with post-exilic linguistic conventions as seen in representative Second Temple material, such as the core Late Biblical Hebrew books, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Ben Sira, rabbinic literature, the Samaritan Pentateuch, and contemporary Aramaic and Syriac material. On the one hand, such instances of written-reading disharmony clearly entail a degree of anachronism in the vocalisation of Classical Biblical Hebrew compositions. On the other, since many of the innovative and secondary features in the Tiberian vocalisation tradition are typical of sources from the Second Temple Period and, in some cases, are documented as minority alternatives in even earlier material, the Masoretic reading tradition is justifiably characterised as a linguistic artefact of profound historical depth.</p> 04 00 Acknowledgments............................................................. ix Abbreviations ................................................................... xi Introduction....................................................................... 1 Part I: Conscious Replacement ........................................ 43 1. The Tetragrammaton................................................... 45 and Similar........................................ 55 לֵ רָ אֹות אֶ ת־פְּ נֵ י יְּהוָ ה .2 3. Ketiv-Qere Euphemisms................................................ 67 Part II: Linguistic Developments...................................... 81 4. The Proper Name Issachar ........................................... 83 5. את ַר ְּק ִל Liqra(ʾ)ṯ............................................................. 93 6. The 2MS Endings........................................................ 101 7. The 2FS Endings......................................................... 145 8. The Qere Perpetuum וא ִה.............................................. 161 9. The 2/3FPL Endings ................................................... 171 10. Nifalisation .............................................................. 183 11. Hifilisation............................................................... 209 12. Pielisation................................................................ 253 13. Hitpaelisation .......................................................... 289 14. Ṭɛrɛm Qaṭal.............................................................. 319 15. Ha-Qaṭal...................................................................347 16. Wayyiqṭol .................................................................373 17. 1st-person Wayyiqṭol................................................385 18. I-y We-yiqṭol for Weqaṭal..........................................441 Conclusion .....................................................................463 References......................................................................481 Index..............................................................................519 20 00 Open Access Open Book Publishers 01 Open Book Publishers Cambridge, UK 04 01 20230206 2023 06 15 9781800649804 06 15 9781800649811 06 15 9781800649828 09 Open Book Publishers 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/OBP.0310 99 01 09 Open Book Publishers 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0310.pdf 99 01