Topic, Focus and Foreground in Ancient Hebrew Narratives
Topic, Focus and Foreground in Ancient Hebrew Narratives

Author: Jean-Marc Heimerdinger

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 1999-08-01

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0567057941

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This study breaks new ground in describing how various linguistic and pragmatic mechanisms affect both the form of the narrative clause and the arrangement of the grammatical elements. The various possible forms that a narrative clause can take are classified in terms of their 'topic-comment' and 'focus-presupposition', and it is argued that the way in which these are articulated dictates the word order in the clause. The outcome of the study demonstrates that the traditional binary distinction between foreground and background, based purely on verb forms, is inadequate. A new model is offered showing how foregrounding is achieved by exploiting cognitive structures or by using specific evaluative devices.

Topic, Focus and Foreground in Ancient Hebrew Narratives
Topic, Focus and Foreground in Ancient Hebrew Narratives

Author: Jean-Marc Heimerdinger

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 1999-08-01

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0567057941

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This study breaks new ground in describing how various linguistic and pragmatic mechanisms affect both the form of the narrative clause and the arrangement of the grammatical elements. The various possible forms that a narrative clause can take are classified in terms of their 'topic-comment' and 'focus-presupposition', and it is argued that the way in which these are articulated dictates the word order in the clause. The outcome of the study demonstrates that the traditional binary distinction between foreground and background, based purely on verb forms, is inadequate. A new model is offered showing how foregrounding is achieved by exploiting cognitive structures or by using specific evaluative devices.

Parenthesis in Biblical Hebrew
Parenthesis in Biblical Hebrew

Author: Tamar Zewi

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9004162437

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In its examination of parenthesis in Biblical Hebrew, this book presents a linguistic description of Biblical Hebrew parenthetical units through integration of several research disciplines and scholarly approaches: linguistics, discourse studies, text linguistics, textual philology, comparative Semitics, Bible translations, and literature.

From Linguistics to Hermeneutics
From Linguistics to Hermeneutics

Author: Pierre van Hecke

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2010-12-07

Total Pages: 457

ISBN-13: 9004188355

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Drawing on the insights of functional grammar and cognitive semantics, this book offers a detailed linguistic analysis of Job 12-14 and a fresh exegetical reading of Job's longest and central speech in the book.

Linguistics & Biblical Exegesis
Linguistics & Biblical Exegesis

Author: Douglas Mangum

Publisher: Lexham Press

Published: 2017-11-01

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1577997050

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We rarely think about the way languages work because communicating in our native tongue comes so naturally to us. The Bible was written in ancient Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek—languages no modern reader can claim to have a native understanding of. A better understanding of how language works should help us understand the Bible better as we seek to discern the original intent and meaning of each biblical author. In this book, you will get a basic introduction to the field of linguistics—its history, its key concepts, its major schools of thought, and how its insights can shed light on various problems in biblical Hebrew and Greek. Numerous examples illustrate linguistic concepts, and technical terminology is clearly defined. Learn how the study of language can enhance your Bible study.

The Construction of Shame in the Hebrew Bible
The Construction of Shame in the Hebrew Bible

Author: Johanna Stiebert

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2002-06-01

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 056707868X

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This book explores the phenomenon of shame in the Hebrew bible. It focuses particularly on the major prophets, because shame vocabulary is most prominent there. Shame has been widely discussed in the literature of psychology and anthropology; the book discusses the findings of both disciplines in some detail. It emphasises the social-anthropological honour/shame model, which a considerable number of biblical scholars since the early 1990s have embraced enthusiastically. The author highlights the shortcomings of this heuristic model and proposes a number of alternative critical approaches.

The Descent from the Mountain
The Descent from the Mountain

Author: Martin Ravndal Hauge

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1841271772

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This 'close reading' of Exodus 19-40 focuses on the repetition of the 'encounter on the mountain'. This double encounter is expressed in a narrative structure of preparatory episodes climaxed by the theophany. The tension of the narrative is linked to 'the people' as the unlikely heroes of encounter and solved by the divine descent from the divine mountain to the man-made tent. The new situation of permanent encounter is foregrounded by the juxtaposed stories of pre- and post- Sinai journey, and the theme of the 'substitution of Moses' underlines a radical reinterpretation of traditional concepts, inviting the reader to embark on a process of identification.

The Origin of the History of Israel
The Origin of the History of Israel

Author: Jan-Wim Wesselius

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2002-07-01

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 0567564258

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This book demonstrates that Primary History, the historical work contained in the first nine books of the Hebrew Bible (Genesis-2 Kings), was written as one unitary work, in deliberate emulation of the Greek-language Histories of Herodotus of Halicarnassus (completed c. 440 BCE); the diversity of its books and sections is largely a literary device. The work was most likely written in the period 440-420 BCE, in the period of reform usually associated with the name of Nehemiah. Though this thesis does not directly affect questions of historicity, understanding the literary nature of primary history promises to open new vistas for research into the history of Israel, the Hebrew Bible in general and the history of the Hebrew language.

Sentence Conjunctions in the Gospel of Matthew
Sentence Conjunctions in the Gospel of Matthew

Author: Stephanie Black

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2002-04-30

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 1841272558

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An application of current linguistic research on discourse markers to sentence conjunctions in Matthew's Gospel. This treatment combines linguistic insights with a detailed examination of Matthew's use of kai, de and similar conjunctions in narrative passages, culminating in a verse by verse commentary on the structure of Matthew's ;miracle chapters', Matthew 8-9. Black breaks new ground in linguistic theory by modelling the interplay between features such as sentence conjunction, word order, and verb tense in the portrayal of continuity and discontinuity in Greek narrative. A volume of interest to New Testament scholars, classicists, discourse analysts and linguists alike.

Alleged Non-Past Uses of Qatal in Classical Hebrew
Alleged Non-Past Uses of Qatal in Classical Hebrew

Author: Rogland

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-07-17

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 9004358749

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This new monograph on the Hebrew verb examines those instances in which the qatal form (the so-called "perfect" or suffix conjugation) appears to refer to present or future events. The "gnomic", "prophetic", and "performative" perfects are each treated in turn. This study is especially intended for Hebrew linguists and scholars of the Old Testament, but its results will be of interest to scholars of other Semitic languages as well.