Research Catalog

Title

Biblical Hebrew and discourse linguistics / edited by Robert D. Bergen.

Publication

Dallas, TX : Summer Institute of Linguistics ; Winona Lake, IN : Distributed by Eisenbrauns, ©1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

Bergen, Robert D.

Description

560 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"This book includes twenty-two papers selected from a 1993 Seminar in Dallas, attended by a combination of professional Bible translators, biblical scholars and discourse linguists, are divided into three parts: Grammatical, Syntactical and Accent Studies; Narrative Genre; and Topics Related to Nonnarratives Genres. There is an introductory essay by C.H.J. van der Merwe which will help non-specialists. The authors are translation personnel and consultants from SIL International and the United Bible Societies, as well as scholars from Denmark, Sweden, Holland, South Africa, Israel, and the United States. Shares interaction of linguists and biblical scholars to provide exciting insights into the understanding of biblical texts." -- BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Bible. > Language, style > Congresses
• Bible
• Bibel
• Bible > Language, style > Congresses
• Hebrew language > Discourse analysis > Congresses
• Direct discourse in the Bible > Congresses
• Narration in the Bible > Congresses
• Language and languages > Style
• Direct discourse in the Bible
• Hebrew language > Discourse analysis
• Narration in the Bible
• Grammatik
• Linguistik
• Hebräisch
• Textkohärenz
• Oudhebreeuws
• Taalkunde
• Letterkunde
• Hebrew language, Biblical > Discourse analysis > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Congress
• proceedings (reports)
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Congresses.
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

pt. 1. 1. Discourse linguistics and Biblical Hebrew grammar / Christo H.J. von der Merwe. -- 2. Weqatal forms in Biblical Hebrew prose / Robert E. Longacre. -- 3. Salience, implicature, ambiguity, and redundancy in clause-clause relationships in Biblical Hebrew / Francis I. Andersen. -- 4. On the Hebrew verbal system / Alviero Niccacci. -- 5. Methodological collision between source criticism and discourse analysis / Randall Buth. -- 6. A discourse perspective on the significance of the masoretic accents / Lars Lode. -- pt. 2. 7. Analysis of Biblical narrative / Alviero Niccacci. -- 8. Introducing direct discourse in Biblical Hebrew narative / Cynthia L. Miller. -- 9. Genealogical prominence and the structure of Genesis / T. David Andersen. -- 10. Some literary and grammatical aspects of genealogies in Genesis / Nicholas Andrew Bailey. -- 11. Is Genesis 27:46 P or J? And how the answer affects translation / Hanni Kuhn. -- 12. The miraculous grammar of Joshua 3-4 / Nicolai Winther-Nielsen. -- 13. Evil spirits and eccentric grammar / Robert D. Bergen. -- 14. A textlinguistic approach to the Biblical Hebrew narrative of Jonah / Robert E. Longacre and Shin Ja J. Hwang. pt. 3. 15. Functions and implications of rhetorical questions in the book of Job / Lenart J. de Regt. -- 16. Genre criticism and the Psalms / Ernst R. Wendland. -- 17. Genre and form criticism in Old Testament exegesis / Bo-Krister Ljungberg. -- 18. Hebrew proverbs and how to translate them / Murray Salisbury. -- 19. Units and flow in the Song of Songs 1:1-2:6 / John Callow. -- 20. Some discourse functions of prophetic quotation formulas in Jeremiah / H. Van Dyke Parunak. -- 21. The poetic properties of prophetic discourse in the book of Micah / Francis I. Andersen. -- 22. Vision and oracle in Zechariah 1-6 / David J. Clark.

ISBN

• 1556710070
• 9781556710070

LCCN

94068219

OCLC

• ocm32168845
• 32168845
• SCSB-2047038

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library