Grammar of Biblical Hebrew

339 Pages·2015·11.138 MB·English

by  Wolfgang Schneider

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STUDIES IN BIBLICAL HEBREW
Dennis R. Magary
General Editor
Vol. 1
This book is a volume in a Peter Lang monograph series.
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Wolfgang Schneider
Grammar of Biblical Hebrew
Translated and Revised by
Randall L. McKinion
PETER LANG
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Brussels · Vienna · Oxford · Warsaw
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Schneider, Wolfgang | McKinion, Randall L., translator.
Title: Grammar of biblical Hebrew / Wolfgang Schneider;
translated and revised by Randall L. McKinion.
Other titles: Grammatik des biblischen hebräisch. English
Description: New York: Peter Lang Publishing, [2015] |
Series: Studies in biblical Hebrew, ISSN 1081-0536; volume 1 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015003551 | ISBN 9781433125287 (hardcover: alk. paper)
|
ISBN 9781453915721 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Hebrew language—Grammar.
Classification: LCC PJ4567 .S3613 2015 | DDC 492.4/5—dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015003551
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This book is an English version of the German original edition,
Grammatik des biblischen Hebräisch: Ein Lehrbuch by Wolfgang
Schneider,
published by Claudius Verlag, Munich, Germany © 2001.
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About the author
Wolfgang Schneider (1933–2009) served as lecturer in linguistics and
Hebrew at the Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal from 1970 until he retired in
1995. He became a member of the Societas Hebraica Amstelodamensis in 1991
and was given an honorary Doctor of Theology by the Kirchliche Hochschule
Wuppertal in 2001. His other works include Debarim: Ein Übungsbuch für
den Hebräisch-Unterricht.
Randall L. McKinion has served as Associate Professor of Old Testament at
Cedarville University in Cedarville, Ohio, since 2014. Previously he served for
11 years as Associate Professor of Old Testament and Biblical Languages and
Vice President of Academic Affairs at Shepherds Theological Seminary in Cary,
North Carolina. He received his Ph.D. in Biblical studies from Southeastern
Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina.
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About the book
Although Wolfgang Schneider’s Grammatik des biblischen Hebräisch: Ein
Lehrbuch serves primarily as an introductory textbook to biblical Hebrew,
it makes an invaluable contribution to the text-linguistic study of Hebrew
Bible. Schneider’s understanding of narrative syntax and discourse
linguistics continues to influence such grammarians as Niccacci and
Talstra, through whom his work is validated. His discussion of clauses and
text syntax remains pertinent to Hebrew students and professors alike.
With this English translation, Schneider’s work may now make a
worldwide contribution to biblical studies by clarifying for the student the
contribution of text grammar to the reading of the biblical text.
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This ebook can be cited
This edition of the eBook can be cited. To enable this we have marked the
start and end of a page. In cases where a word straddles a page break, the
marker is placed inside the word at exactly the same position as in the
physical book. This means that occasionally a word might be bifurcated by
this marker.
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Contents
Foreword
From the Foreword to the First Edition
PART I ELEMENTS
SPEAKING—WRITING—READING 01–10
01 Consonants
01.1 General Comments
01.2 Writing
01.3 Groups of Sounds
02 Vowels
02.1 Existence
02.2 Vowel Changes
03 Vowel Signs
03.1 Vowel Letters
03.2 The Tiberian Punctuation
04 The Schwa-Sign
04.1 Signs for Half-Vowels
04.2 Signs for Vowellessness
04.3 Differentiation of Schwa Mobile and Schwa Quiescens
05 Signs of Articulation
05.1 Mappíq
05.2 Dagesch
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06 Accent Signs
06.1 Méteg
06.2 Maqqéf
06.3 Accents
07 Masoretic Notes on the Text of the Bible
07.1 Ketíb and Qeré
07.2 Qeré perpetuum
07.3 Further Notes
08 Character and Vocalization of Syllables
08.1 Basic Rules
08.2 Open Syllables
08.3 Closed Syllables
08.4 On the Right Reading of the Qamets
09 Gutturals and Resch
09.1 Disappearance of Vowels
09.2 Doubling
09.3 End of a Syllable
09.4 Further Special Features
10 Accent and Vocalization in Words with Changeable Vowels
10.1 Tone Syllable and Pre-Tone Syllable
10.2 Unaccented Syllable before the Pre-Tone Syllable
10.3 Construct State
10.4 Rule of Thumb
10.5 Special Places of Stress
PART II FORMS
PARTICLES 11–15, NOMINALS 16–23, VERBS 24–43
11 Pronouns
11.1 Overview
11.2 Personal Pronouns
11.3 Suffixes
11.4 Demonstrative Pronouns
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