Robert D. Holmstedt

2 paper cards in Mova's library · 2011–2014

Robert D. Holmstedt wrote 2 of the papers Mova reads, in 2011–2014.

The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart.

Papers

Analyzing זֶה Grammar and Reading זֶה Texts of Ps 68:9 and Judg 5:5 (2014)
The paper argues that grammar and literary reading must check each other, using the demonstrative זֶה. Following Diessel's typology, Hebrew זֶה is deictic and pronominal ("This is the sign of the covenant", Gen 9:12) or adnominal ("this land", Gen 12:7); it also grammaticalized into a copula-like element in questions…
The Typological Classification of the Hebrew of Genesis: Subject-Verb or Verb-Subject? (2011)
Most Hebraists call Biblical Hebrew a verb-subject language because VS clauses outnumber SV more than five to one in Genesis.