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Biblical Studies, Second Temple Judaism, Intertextuality, Rabbinics, Midrash, and 10 more

Second Temple Judaism, Rabbinic Literature, Achaemenid History, Hellenistic Judaism, Diaspora Judaism, and 4 more

Publisher: gradworks.umi.com

Publication Date: Jan 1, 2009

Philology, Archaeology, Talmud, Late Antique Archaeology, Late Antiquity, and 6 more

Sex and Gender

Archaeology, Near Eastern Studies, and Linguistics

Publisher: Journal of Near Eastern Studies

Publication Date: Oct 1, 2013

Diachronic Linguistics (Or Historical Linguistics), Hebrew Language, Biblical Hebrew (Languages And Linguistics), Mishnaic Hebrew, Mishnah, and 4 more

Persian Literature, Aramaic, Early Christianity, History of Religions, Kingship (Medieval History), and 9 more

Levantine Archaeology, Hebrew Bible, Archaeology of drinking places, History of Drinking, Late Bronze Age archaeology, and 4 more

A short paper that shows that the book of Esther never claimed that Mordecai was exiled from Jerusalem - but rather that his great-grandfather Kish was. Therefore, there is no historical problem in the chronology of ... more abstractA short paper that shows that the book of Esther never claimed that Mordecai was exiled from Jerusalem - but rather that his great-grandfather Kish was. Therefore, there is no historical problem in the chronology of the book.

Ancient Hebrew, Bible, Relative Clauses, Book of Esther, Hebrew syntax, and 1 more

State of the fields: Hebrew language, Aramaic language, and the Aramaic texts at Qumran.

Hebrew Language, Aramaic Dialectology, Aramaic, Qumranic Studies, Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East, and 1 more

More Info: co-authored with Moshe Bernstein

Because of the different verbal systems in the Hebrew of the Bible and the Hebrew of the Mishnah, reading the Bible as if written in Mishnaic Hebrew can produce interesting results. This paper analyzes rabbinic commen... more abstractBecause of the different verbal systems in the Hebrew of the Bible and the Hebrew of the Mishnah, reading the Bible as if written in Mishnaic Hebrew can produce interesting results. This paper analyzes rabbinic comments on stative verbs and participles. The uses of both differ significantly in the Mishnah from the uses in the Bible. In the Mishnah, but not in the Bible, the participle participates in a full-blown tense system. Numerous midrashim rely on reading biblical participles they would have been used in later Hebrew, as a present or future tense verb. Many verbs which were morphologically and syntactically stative in biblical Hebrew have been “normalized” by Mishnaic Hebrew, and this, too, created opportunities for midrash. In conclusion, the paper offers some thoughts on the rabbinic conceptions of language that allowed for such midrashim, suggesting that although the Rabbis were aware of diachronic linguistic change, they believed that multiple readings were simultaneously possible for the biblical text.

Diachronic Linguistics (Or Historical Linguistics), Hebrew Language, Language Variation and Change, Hebrew Bible, Midrash, and 3 more

More Info: Journal of Semitic Studies 57 (2012), 265-294

Sexuality, Virginity, and Biblical Law

More Info: Published in Zeitschrift für altorientalische und biblische Rechtsgeschichte 16 (2010), 279-296.

More Info: published in the proceedings of a conference in Vienna, 2/2008.

Phonology, Semitic languages, Ancient Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew (Languages And Linguistics), Hebrew, and 1 more

Phonology, Semitic languages, Ancient Hebrew, Hebrew, Phonetics and Phonology, and 1 more

Aramaic, Mishnaic Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew, Mishnaic hebrew, Aramaic, and Semitic Languages (Mishnaic Hebrew, Modern Hebrew)

Talmud, Aramaic, Rabbinical literature (The Mishnah, Babylonian and Palestinian Talmudim, aggadic midrashim), and Babylonian Jewish Aramaic

Rabbinic Literature, Mishnah, Sotah, and Rabbinical literature (The Mishnah, Babylonian and Palestinian Talmudim, aggadic midrashim)

Dead Sea Scrolls (Religion), Angelology, Angels, The Book of Daniel, and Dead Sea Scrolls

Talmud, Rabbinical literature (The Mishnah, Babylonian and Palestinian Talmudim, aggadic midrashim), Geonim, and Babylonian Jewish Aramaic

Aramaic and Neo-Aramaic

History of Ideas, Theology, Hebrew Bible, Biblical Studies, Jewish Philosophy, and 2 more

Northwest Semitic Epigraphy and Historical Development of Halakhah

Jewish Law, Dead Sea Scrolls, History of Halakhah, and Tefillin

Aramaic, Aramaic Papyri, Wadi Daliyeh, and Aramaic law

Semitic languages, Hebrew Language, Ancient Hebrew, Ancient Hebrew (Languages And Linguistics), and Semitic Historical Linguistics