Mova0.5 pre-release⌕
☰
home / docs / papers / Ancient Hebrew / Hebrew Linguistics and Biblical Criticism: A Minimalist Programme

Hebrew Linguistics and Biblical Criticism: A Minimalist Programme

What it is about

A polemical first half calls for a "minimalist" historical linguistics of Hebrew, independent of theological dating. The second half is a concrete case. In Qumran Hebrew two changes act on the first-person wayyiqtol: apocopation of final-weak verbs (wayyivke > wayyevk) and spread of the modal ending ־ָה to all first-person forms (wāʾextov > wāʾextəvâ). Yet final-weak first-person forms keep their ־ה, as if immune to both. DeCaen resolves it by rule ordering: apocopation came first, then the suffix re-added a ־ה that now spells -a, not -e. This predicts an apparent "return" of final ה over time. He cross-tabulates the two rates book by book, finds the prediction met in roughly datable prophets, and then places Pentateuchal sources and other books on the same two-dimensional profile.

Ideas

For Mova

I1 is a measure on torah-wlc-macula using HebBinyan, person and MISC Type=wayyiqtol (the Torah has few 1st-person narrative forms, mostly in Deuteronomy; report the n). I2 goes into 12. Biblical, Mishnaic and Modern Hebrew compared (dating debate); I3 into 07-weak-verbs.md (III-he) and any future Hebrew analyser.

Cite

The paper itself, not this card. BibTeX from the library's record of the work. DOI 10.5508/jhs.2001.v3.a6

@article{caen2001hebrew,
  title = {{Hebrew Linguistics and Biblical Criticism: A Minimalist Programme}},
  author = {Caën, Vincent De},
  journal = {Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 3},
  year = {2001},
  doi = {10.5508/jhs.2001.v3.a6},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.5508/jhs.2001.v3.a6}
}

References

40 references, 0 of them with a card of ours. ↗ leads to the work, «find» searches for one we have no id for yet.

  1. Barr, James. 1995. “The Synchronic, the Diachronic and the Historical: A Triangular Relationship?” Oudtestamentische studiכn 34: 1-14. find
  2. Biber, Douglas, Susan Conrad and Randi Reppen. 1998. Corpus Linguistics: Investigating Language Structure and Use. Cambridge Approaches to Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. find
  3. Blenkinsopp, Joseph. 1992. The Pentateuch: An Introduction to the First Five Books of the Bible. The Anchor Bible Reference Library. New York: Doubleday. find
  4. de Caכn, Vincent. 1995. “On the Placement and Interpretation of the Verb in Standard Biblical Hebrew Prose.” Ph.D. diss., University of Toronto. find
  5. Chomsky, Noam. 1995. The Minimalist Program. Current Studies in Linguistics, no. 28. Cambridge MA: MIT Press. find
  6. Davies, Philip R. 1995. In Search of “Ancient Israel”. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Supplement Series, no. 148. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic. find
  7. Dewar, Elaine. 2001. Bones: Discovering the First Americans. Toronto: Random House. find
  8. Deist, Ferdinand E. 1995. “On “Synchronic” and “Diachronic”: Wie es eigentlich gewesen”. Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages 21.1: 37-48. find
  9. Epstein, Samuel David, and Norbert Hornstein. 1999. Working Minimalism. Current Studies in Linguistics, no. 32. Cambridge MA: MIT Press. find
  10. Finkelstein, Israel, and Neil Asher Silberman. 2001. The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of its Sacred Texts. New York: Free Press. find
  11. Fischer, David Hackett. 1970. Historians’ Fallacies: Toward a Logic of Historical Thought. New York: Harper Colophon. find
  12. Fredericks, Daniel C. 1988. Qoheleth's Language: Re-evaluating its Nature and Date. Ancient Near Eastern Texts and Studies, no. 3. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen. find
  13. Gogel, Sandra Landis. 1998. A Grammar of Epigraphic Hebrew. Society of Biblical Literature, Resources for Biblical Study, no. 23. Atlanta: Scholars. find
  14. Gutting, Gary, ed. 1994. The Cambridge Companion to Foucault. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. find
  15. Halpern, Baruch. 1988. The First Historians: The Hebrew Bible and History. San Francisco: Harper & Row. find
  16. Hayes, John H., and Carl R. Holladay. 1982. Biblical Exegesis: A Beginner's Handbook. Atlanta: John Knox. find
  17. Howells, Christina. 1999. Derrida: Deconstruction from Phenomenology to Ethics. Key Contemporary Thinkers. Cambridge: Polity. find
  18. Hurvitz, Avi. 1982. A Linguistic Study of the Relationship between the Priestly Source and the Book of Ezekiel. Cahiers de la Revue Biblique, no. 20. Paris: J. Gabalda. find
  19. Jenkins, Keith. 1991. Re-thinking History. London: Routledge. find
  20. Jo on, Paul. 1996. A Grammar of Biblical Hebrew. [2d corrected edition.] 2 vols. Subsidia biblica, no. 14/I-II. Translated and revised by T. Muraoka. Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute. find
  21. Lemche, Niels Peter. 1998. The Israelites in History and Tradition. Library of Ancient Israel. London: SPCK. find
  22. Mazar, Amihai. 1992. Archaeology of the Land of the Bible: 10,000-586 B.C.E. The Anchor Bible Reference Library. New York: Doubleday. find
  23. McCann, J. Clinton, Jr. 1993. A Theological Introduction to the Book of Psalms: The Psalms as Torah. Nashville: Abingdon. find
  24. McCarter, P. Kyle, Jr. 1984. II Samuel. The Anchor Bible, vol. 9. Garden City NY: Doubleday. find
  25. McEnery, T., and A. Wilson. 1996. Corpus Linguistics. Edinburgh Textbooks in Empirical Linguistics. Edinburgh. find
  26. McKenzie, Steven L., Thomas Rצmer with Hans Heinrich Schmid. 2000. Rethinking the Foundations: Historiography in the Ancient World and in the Bible: Essays in Honour of John Van Seters. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift f r die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, no. 294. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. find
  27. Mickelsen, A. Berkeley and Alvera M Mickelsen. 2d ed. 1992. Understanding Scripture: How to Read and Study the Bible. Peabody MA: Hendrikson. find
  28. Myers, Jacob M. 1965. Ezra-Nehemiah. The Anchor Bible, vol. 14. Garden City NY: Doubleday. find
  29. Neusner, Jacob. 2001. Recovering Judaism: The Universal Dimension of Judaism. Minneapolis: Fortress. find
  30. Oden, Robert A., Jr. 1987. The Bible Without Theology: The Theological Tradition and Alternatives to It. New Voices in Biblical Studies. San Francisco: Harper & Row. find
  31. Peckham, Brian. 1993. History and Prophecy: The Development of Late Judean Literary Traditions. The Anchor Bible Reference Library. New York: Doubleday. find
  32. Polzin, Robert. 1976. Late Biblical Hebrew: Toward an Historical Typology of Biblical Hebrew Prose. Harvard Semitic Monographs, no. 12. Missoula: Scholars. [revised Ph.D. diss., Harvard 1971.] find
  33. Qimron, Elisha. 1986. The Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Harvard Semitic Studies. Atlanta: Scholars. find
  34. Rast, Walter E. 1972. Tradition History and the Old Testament. Guides to Biblical Scholarship: Old Testament Guides. Philadelphia: Fortress. find
  35. Rooker, Mark F. 1990. Biblical Hebrew in Transition: The Language of the Book Ezekiel. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Supplement Series, no. 90. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic. find
  36. Schniedewind, William M. 1999. “Qumran Hebrew as Antilanguage”. Journal of Biblical Literature 118.2: 235-252. find
  37. Shulman, Ahouva. 1996. “The Use of the Modal Verb Forms in Biblical Hebrew Prose”. Ph.D. diss., University of Toronto. find
  38. Thompson, Thomas L. 1994 [2d impression]. Early History of the Israelite People: From the Written and Archaeological Sources. Studies in the History of the Ancient Near East, no. 4. Leiden: E.J. Brill. find
  39. Van Seters, John. 1983. In Search of History: Historiography in the Ancient World and the Origins of Biblical History. New Haven: Yale University Press. find
  40. Waltke, Bruce K., and M. O'Connor. 1990. An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax. Winona Lake IN: Eisenbrauns. find

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/hbo-2001-caen-hebrew-linguistics-biblical-criticism-minimalist/