Hebrew Texts and Language of the Second Temple Period: Proceedings of an Eighth Symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ben Sira(134 Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah)

The 21 essays in this volume deal with the language and text of Hebrew corpora from the Second Temple period. They were originally presented at the Eighth International Symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ben Sira, held in January 2016 in Jerusalem. Most of the papers focus on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the light of First and Second Temple Hebrew. A few of the contributions are devoted primarily to the language of Ben Sira, Samaritan Hebrew, and Mishnaic Hebrew. You will find discussions of orthography, phonology, morphology, syntax, lexicon, language contact, and sociolinguistics.

Table of Contents:
Preface Abbreviations 1 On Some Words in Two of the Dead Sea Scrolls  Moshe Bar-Asher 2 The Aramaic Influence on Mishnaic Hebrew: Borrowing or Interference?  Edward M. Cook 3 A Reappraisal of Three Philological Comparisons between Biblical Hebrew and the Hebrew of Ben Sira  Haim Dihi 4 Sixty Years of Publications on the Dead Sea Scrolls: Discoveries in the Judaean Desert in Perspective  Devorah Dimant 5 Trends and Methodologies in the Study of Qumran Hebrew  Steven E. Fassberg 6 The Word אמת in the Dead Sea Scrolls  Steven D. Fraade 7 The wqatal Form in Sectarian Instructive Texts  Gregor Geiger 8 The Linguistic Profile of Select Reworked Bible Material vis-à-vis Masoretic Hebrew and Some Ramifications Thereof  Aaron D. Hornkohl 9 The Hebrew of the Book of Jubilees at Qumran  Daniel A. Machiela 10 The Discoveries in the Judaean Desert (DJD) Series and the Linguistic Study of Ancient Hebrew  Noam Mizrahi 11 Hidden and Evident Aramaic Influences on Qumran Hebrew  Matthew Morgenstern 12 Verbal Rection in Qumran Hebrew  Takamitsu Muraoka 13 The Significance of the Finite Verb Conjugations in the Hebrew Dead Sea Scrolls  Ken M. Penner 14 Aramaisms in Hymn 32 (1QHa 24:2–25:33)  Gary A. Rendsburg 15 Geminate Verbs in the Hebrew of the Wisdom of Ben Sira  Eric D. Reymond 16 Language and Group Identity in the Dead Sea Scrolls: the Case for an “Essene Hebrew”  William M. Schniedewind 17 The Infinitive Absolute in Samaritan Hebrew  Stefan Schorch 18 The Use of גם and אף in Qumran Hebrew  Christian Stadel 19 Orthographic Practices in the Biblical Texts  Emanuel Tov 20 Promises and Challenges in Designing Stylometric Analyses for Classical Hebrew  Pierre Van Hecke and Johan de Joode 21 New Readings in the “Commentary on Genesis D” (4Q254a) Scroll  Alexey Eliyahu Yuditsky Index of Words and Phrases Index of Authors Index of Ancient Texts Index of Subjects

About the Author :
Steven E. Fassberg, Ph.D. (1984), Harvard University, is the Caspar Levias Professor of Ancient Semitic Languages at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has written on Hebrew and Aramaic dialectology.