Early Biblical Hebrew, Late Biblical Hebrew, and Linguistic Variability: A Sociolinguistic Evaluation of the Linguistic Dating of Biblical TextsIn "Early Biblical Hebrew, Late Biblical Hebrew, and Linguistic Variability," Dong-Hyuk Kim attempts to adjudicate between the two seemingly irreconcilable views over the linguistic dating of biblical texts. Whereas the traditional opinion, represented by Avi Hurvitz, believes that Late Biblical Hebrew was distinct from Early Biblical Hebrew and thus one can date biblical texts on linguistic grounds, the more recent view argues that Early and Late Biblical Hebrew were merely stylistic choices through the entire biblical period. Using the variationist approach of (historical) sociolinguistics and on the basis of the sociolinguistic concepts of linguistic variation and different types of language change, Kim convincingly argues that there is a third way of looking at the issue. |
Contents
Chapter One Introduction | 1 |
A Survey of Scholarship | 11 |
The Method | 45 |
A Theoretical Assessment | 85 |
A Sociolinguistic Analysis of the Purported EBH and LBH Features | 97 |
Summary and Conclusions | 151 |
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according to books/texts Aramaic argue argument Ben Sira biblical texts Book of Esther book of Ezekiel challengers chapter Chronicler’s Chronicles chronological const corpus correlation dating of biblical Deuteronomy diachronic diglossia discussion DtrH early exilic EBH and LBH EBH texts EBH to LBH Ehrensvärd Emphasis original English Esther example exilic period Ezra genre guistic Hebrew Bible Hebrew in Transition Hebrew Language historical sociolinguistics Hurvitz Hurvitz’s method idem independent variable Isaiah Kutscher Labov language Late Biblical Hebrew LBH features lexical linguistic change Linguistic Dating linguistic variable narration Non-P noun numbers occurs Pentateuch Polak Polzin postexilic period Priestly Source proclitic recorded speech Rendsburg Rezetko Rooker Samuel–Kings Schniedewind scholars Source and Ezekiel style stylistic synoptic passages syntax text types understanding variation analysis variationist approach Yahwistic Young Zechariah אאא ךְלמּה הדע הוהי תיבּ הכלממ יהיו יהיו/היהו ךְלמּה אאא להק םהיתוֹ םיהלֹאה תיבּ םתוֹ ןיבּ ןיבוּ ןיבוּ...ןיבּ קעז קעצ תוּכלמ