Description
Book SynopsisThis book is the result of 15 years of research on the ancient Hebrew relative clause as well as the effective application of modern linguistic approaches to an ancient language corpus. Though the ostensible topic is the relative clause, including a full discussion of the various relative words used to introduce Hebrew relative clauses and a detailed presentation of the relevant comparative Semitic data, this work also carefully navigates the challenges of analyzing a “dead” language and offers a methodological road map for the analysis of any feature of Biblical Hebrew grammar. With the appendixes of relative clause data, including the author’s English translations, the work aims at comprehensiveness, exhaustiveness, and full transparency in data, method, and theory.
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Relative Clauses: Orientation
Chapter 2. Issues of Method and Theory
Chapter 3. Relative Words
Chapter 4. Relative Heads
Chapter 5. Relative Syntax
Chapter 6. Relative Semantics
Chapter 7. “Relative” Diachrony
Chapter 8. The Semitic Relative
Appendix A. Relative-Clause Data
Bibliography
Index of Authors
Index of Scripture
