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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Biblical Hebrew"”.
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A Linguistic Reappraisal of the Biblical Hebrew Accusative
This study applies generative linguistics to the Biblical Hebrew (BH) accusative. The standard BH grammars have treated accusative noun phrases under two broad categories, roughly object/complement and adverbial/adjunct. Not only do they disagree about which are objects and which are adverbial, but …
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Grammatical Analysis of Various Biblical Hebrew Texts According to a Traditional Semitic Grammar
Abstract GRAMMATICAL ANALYSIS OF VARIOUS BIBLICAL HEBREW TEXTS ACCORDING TO A TRADITIONAL SEMITIC GRAMMAR Richard Charles McDonald, Ph.D. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2014 Chair: Dr. Russell T. Fuller Although linguistic Hebraists are dissatisfied with traditional grammatical …
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Polysemy in Biblical Hebrew: Examining the Semantic Domain of Fear in the Book of Job
Cognitive linguistics has opened new avenues for Biblical studies in the last several decades. In particular, prototype theory, metaphor theory, and polysemy studies can shed light on the Biblical text. Prototype theory aids the Biblical scholar in understanding how semantic domains are organized …
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Aspects of the collocational analysis of meaning with special reference to some Biblical Hebrew anatomical idioms
Although the biblical data presented can be properly assessed only by a Hebraist/Old Testament exegete, I have attempted to make the work a little more accessible to linguistic scientists without specialization in Hebrew through provision of English glosses of Hebrew passages (rarely of more than a …
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III-h verbs in biblical Hebrew: A study of short and long forms with special attention to the wayyiqtol conjugation
This dissertation studies III-h verbs in Biblical Hebrew that may be rendered as either short or long in the Hebrew Masoretic text ( wayyiqtol , yiqtol , Imperative). In chapter 1, a general examination of all 5,027 possible verbal forms is conducted and preliminary observations are set forth. In …
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Seeking Meaning in the Hebrew Bible: A Lexicographical Study of בקש and דרש using Structuralist and Cognitivist Linguistic Tools.
… integrates lexical and grammatical aspects of Biblical Hebrew with insights from contemporary Structuralist and Cognitive Linguistics, to present an original diachronic analysis of the relationship between the Hebrew Bible’s verbs of ‘Seeking’ and their semantic interdependence. Key concepts …
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Unsupervised multilingual learning
… the historical relationship between Ugaritic and Biblical Hebrew, a known related language.
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An Investigative Comparison Between Four Approaches to Discourse Analysis Using MT Esther as a Test Case
This dissertation compares four approaches to Biblical Hebrew discourse analysis using the Masoretic Text of Esther as a test case: the tagmemic, distributional, information structure, and interclausal approaches. Whereas traditional exegesis tends to focus on grammar and syntax at the level of the …
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Hebrew Verbal System and the Use of Weqatal and Wayyiqtol in Discourse-Thematic Analysis
… to uncover the prototypical features of the Hebrew verb forms qatal, yiqtol, weqatal, and wayyiqtol. The theory encourages viewing the prefixed waw of weqatal and wayyiqtol as one constituent and their corresponding qatal or yiqtol as the other constituent. Aspectuality and deixis are two …
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Davidic references in the Book of Mormon as evidence against its historicity
… of literary elements that may suggest ancient Hebrew authorship. Chapter 2 surveys current Latter-day Saint scholarship and arguments for internal evidence in support of the historicity of the Book of Mormon. Chapter 3 assesses the importance of King David’s influence over the biblical and …
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Hendiadys in the Hebrew Bible. An Investigation of the Applications of the Term
… and combinations of components in the Hebrew Bible. This study investigates on which constructions and components in the Hebrew Bible that the term hendiadys is applied to, and hence which phenomena that prompt the use of the term. For that purpose a large amount of examples of …
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Putting Tamar in her Place
… Genesis? - What does Genesis 38 tell us of the Hebrew understanding of God? - In particular, what is Tamar’s role in answering both these questions? A significant breakthrough in understanding the text occurred when it became clear that the chapter had to be approached both diachronically and …
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Written Convergence in the Greek Pentateuch: Studies at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface
This thesis defends the following argument: 1\. Signs of macro-structural planning indicate a translator has monitored the performance of the product as Greek discourse. 2\. Unique target language items that generate inferences in the product are one sign of macro-structural planning. 3\. The …