This monograph is a literary study of the oracles against Babylon in Jeremiah chapters 50-51. They form the climax of the foreign oracle collection in the book of Jeremiah. Included are a survey of ea
The paucity of material, which has limited the study of Aramaic for too long, is gradually being alleviated. An ever growing body of well-edited texts is being made available to the scholarly world. T
Now a protestant minister in the Netherlands, Mol has revised and translated from Dutch his 2002 doctoral thesis in theology for the University of Utrecht. He grapples with the close proximity of two
This new historical study begins with the earliest stages of the process of forming the canon rather than its final stages as most studies do. It shows how the canon, in essence, was already formed in
Biblical scholars explore changes and continuity in the Bible itself, in the reception of it, and in linguistic and computational approaches to it. Among the topics are a remarkable example of text-re
In this volume, Ken M. Penner uses an empirical method to establish that the Qumran authors’ selection of finite verb forms is determined not by aspect, but by tense or modality.
In prophetic and poetic literature of the Old Testament references to textual participants are inconsistent with regard to their gender, number and person characteristics. Oliver Glanz for the first t
In this book, Godwin Mushayabasa employs a frame semantics approach to analyse the linguistic level of translation as well as the faithfulness with which the translation was handled.
A specialist in biblical narrative and theology, Gelander (emeritus, philosophy, Haifa U.) explores the range of differences and distinctions between the northern and southern tribes on the eve of the
Fokkelman presents a translation of The Book of Job bracketed by extensive notes and commentary on its poetic form. In this bilingual presentation Hebrew appears on the left and English on the right.
In "The Role of Zion/Jerusalem in Isaiah 40 55: A Corpus-Linguistic Approach" Reinoud Oosting offers a linguistic and literary analysis of the Biblical Hebrew text of Isaiah 40-55, focusing on the dep
In A Discourse and Register Analysis of the Prophetic Book of Joel, Colin M. Toffelmire presents a thorough analysis of the text of Joel from the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistics.
Kotze (ancient studies, U. of Stellenbosch, South Africa) has revised for publication the dissertation for his 2011 doctor of theology degree at the University of Stellenbosch, reformulating the argum
In The Semantics of Glory, Marilyn Burton offers a new model for a cognitive semantic approach to ancient languages, and in particular Classical Hebrew, demonstrating this model through its applicatio
This monograph exhaustively investigates the semantic domain or gift' in Ancient Hebrew, which comprises 28 substantives. The investigation firstly focuses on the syntagmatic and paradigmatic relation
The Shape of Hebrew Poetry explores foregrounding and structural cohesion as the dual discourse function of linguistic parallelism in biblical Hebrew poetry through a robust application of Roman Jakob
Hebrew Texts in Jewish, Christian and Muslim Surroundings offers a new perspective on Judaism, Christianity and Islam as religions of the book by showing that there is an intricate web of relations be
