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Textual Analogies and Their Ramifications for a Diachronic Analysis of 1 Samuel 13:1–14:46 and Judges 6:1–8:35
Get PDFCompelling topical, conceptual, and linguistic analogies between Saul\u27s first military campaign against the Philistines at Michmash (1 Sam 13:1–14:46) and Gideon\u27s war against the Midianites (Judg 6–8) indicate direct dependence by the Michmash narrative on the Gideon story. These building blocks from the Gideon narrative serve as a foil for the actors in the Michmash narrative. These findings illuminate the early stages in the formation of the Gideon cycle as well as the growth of the Michmash narrative
Review of Ko, Grace, Theodicy in Habakkuk (Paternoster Biblical Monographs; Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2014).
No full textReview of Jacobs, Mignon R. and Raymond F. Person Jr. (eds.), Israelite Prophecy and the Deuteronomistic History: Portrait, Reality, and the Formation of a History (SBLAIL, 14; Atlanta: SBL, 2013).
No full textReview of Awabdy, Mark A., Immigrants and Innovative Law (FAT, 2/67; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014).
No full textSpeaking to One\u27s Heart: דבר and its Semantic Extension
No full textCognitive linguists are increasingly recognising the value of metonymy for understanding the way language works. This article applies recent advancements in the theory of metonymy to the Hebrew noun דבר in order to explain its broad semantic range. It argues that metonymy and its function in the processes of grammaticalization account for the majority of lexical senses listed for דבר. It also aids in the translation of this polysemous noun by highlighting some contextual features of speech that help determine the meaning of דבר in any given sentence
Review of Hurvitz, Avi, in collaboration with Gottlieb, Leeor, Hornkohl, Aaron, and Mastéy, Emmanuel, A Concise Lexicon of Late Biblical Hebrew: Linguistic Innovations in the Writings of the Second Temple Period (VTSup, 160; Leiden: Brill, 2014).
No full textReview of Olyan, Saul M. (ed.), Ritual Violence in the Hebrew Bible: New Perspectives (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016).
No full textReview of Tsai, Daisy Yulin, Human Rights in Deuteronomy with Special Focus on Slave Laws (BZAW, 464; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014).
No full textThe Biblical Hebrew wayyiqtol and the Evidence of the Amarna Letters from Canaan
Get PDFThe Amarna letters from Canaan (ca. the middle of the fourteenth century B.C.E.) contain several passages which employ the yaqtul forms in the narrative. These passages attest to the existence of the short prefix conjugation in contemporaneous Canaanite dialects. This conclusion is based on the close similarity of their syntax to the Biblical Hebrew wayyiqtol
