Narrative Syntax and the Hebrew Bible: Papers of the Tilburg Conference 1996: 29 (Biblical Interpretation) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004107878 ISBN 13: 9789004107878

Publisher: Brill, 1997

Synopsis

Biblical Hebrew grammar was until recently concentrated on the morpho-syntax within sentence boundaries. In the past few decades text-syntactic theories have been developed. At the conference Narrative Syntax and the Hebrew Bible (Tilburg 1996) six eminent scholars presented both a paper on Hebrew syntax and a workshop in which Exodus 19-24 or 1 Samuel 1 was studied. Both kinds of contributions are collected in this volume. They tend to lead towards one conclusion: traditional sentence-grammar and text-syntactic studies should not exclude, but include each other. The verb forms, word-order and other syntactic features need to be studied as functioning at more than one level. A combination of a morpho-syntactic study at the sentence level and a text-syntactic approach is thus defended.

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About the Author

Ellen van Wolde, Ph.D. (1989) in Biblical Studies, University of Nijmegen, is Professor of Old Testament Exegesis and Hebrew at the Tilburg University. She has published on literary and linguistic methodology and semiotics, and on Genesis, Ruth and Job, including Words become Worlds. Semantic Studies of Genesis 1-11 (Brill, 1994).

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004107878
• ISBN 13: 9789004107878
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 280
• Editor: Van Wolde Ellen