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Semitic languages and cultures, Feb 6, 2023
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Journal for Semitics, Jan 28, 2022
A development in verbal morphology common to multiple forms of ancient Hebrew involves the shift ... more A development in verbal morphology common to multiple forms of ancient Hebrew involves the shift of stative, intransitive, and weakly transitive verbs from G-stem (qal) to N-stem (niphal). Like other Hebrew traditions that crystallised in the Second Temple period, the reading tradition of the Samaritan Pentateuch (consisting of the oral realisation of the constituent consonantal, vocalic, and prosodic components) presents a relatively advanced stage of the shift. Against this tendency, however, Samaritan Hebrew also at times appears to preserve archaic qal morphology. This study surveys salient manifestations of “niphalisation” in Samaritan Hebrew, contrasting them with parallel features in Tiberian Hebrew and other forms of ancient Hebrew and Aramaic, especially Second Temple varieties, and seeks to reveal salient commonalities. While highlighting pertinent secondary features common to Second Temple period sources, the paper also emphasises the historical depth of the shift from qal to niphal.
Journal for Semitics, May 10, 2017
The accepted ancient Hebrew diachronic paradigm and the standard linguistic approach for the peri... more The accepted ancient Hebrew diachronic paradigm and the standard linguistic approach for the periodization of biblical texts are today heavily criticized, the criticism most recently centering on the textual situation of the sources. Critics argue that the high degree of textual instability and linguistic fluidity characterizing the extant witnesses preclude any reliable tracing of the history of the language and make even the most approximative attempts at linguistic dating impossible. However, much of this textual argument is abstract, since the effect of secondary intervention on the stability of diachronically significant features has been studied in detail in the case of only a few texts, the investigations reaching conflicting conclusions. After a brief survey of foregoing investigations, the present study compares Pentateuchal material from the MT and Qumran, concluding that (a) preservation of diachronically meaningful detail is still very much the norm and (b) differences between editions of the Torah often indicate the linguistic conservatism of one edition, here the MT, as opposed to linguistic development of the other, here the Qumran material. 1 This paper is an expansion of a lecture, entitled "Historical Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew: Observations from the Perspective of Reworked Pentateuch Material," given in the context of a joint session of the Society for Biblical Literature and the National Association of Professors of Hebrew at the 2015 SBL-AAR meetings in Atlanta, Georgia. I wish to express my gratitude to Jacobus Naudé for both chairing the session and arranging for the publication of the proceedings, to the editors and anonymous readers of Journal for Semitics for their helpful observations, and to the SBL-AAR session participants, presenters and audience alike, for their valuable questions, advice, and criticism. 2 The studies in Young 2003a-on both sides of the issue-were salvos in what may be considered the first major skirmish of the conflict, which continued in collections of articles published in Hebrew Studies 46 (2005) and 47 (2006). The most comprehensive and sustained attack on approaches to ancient Hebrew diachrony and linguistic periodization, along with elaboration of an alternative view, may be found in Young
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Papers by Aaron D . Hornkohl
This volume brings together papers relating to the pronunciation of Semitic languages and the representation of their pronunciation in written form. The papers focus on sources representative of a period that stretches from late antiquity until the Middle Ages. A large proportion of them concern reading traditions of Biblical Hebrew, especially the vocalisation notation systems used to represent them. Also discussed are orthography and the written representation of prosody.
Beyond Biblical Hebrew, there are studies concerning Punic, Biblical Aramaic, Syriac, and Arabic, as well as post-biblical traditions of Hebrew such as piyyuṭ and medieval Hebrew poetry. There were many parallels and interactions between these various language traditions and the volume demonstrates that important insights can be gained from such a wide range of perspectives across different historical periods.