A Guide to Biblical Hebrew Syntax

by Arnold, Bill T.

• ISBN13: 9780511189272
• ISBN10: 0511189273
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-11-24
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This introduces and abridges the syntactical features of the original language of the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament. Scholars have made significant progress in recent decades in understanding Biblical Hebrew syntax. Yet intermediate readers seldom have access to this progress due to the technical jargon and sometimes-obscure locations of the scholarly publications. This Guide is an intermediate-level reference grammar for Biblical Hebrew. As such, it assumes an understanding of elementary phonology and morphology, and defines and illustrates the fundamental syntactical features of Biblical Hebrew that most intermediate-level readers struggle to master. The volume divides Biblical Hebrew syntax, and to a lesser extent morphology, into four parts. The first three cover the individual words (nouns, verbs, and particles) with the goal of helping the reader move from morphological and syntactical observations to meaning and significance. The fourth section moves beyond phase-level phenomena and considers the larger relationships of clauses and sentences.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Nouns

Nominative

Genitive

Accusative

Apposition

Adjectives

Determination

Verbs

Stem

Aspect

Modals

Non-finites

Verbal coordination

Particles

Prepositions

Adverbs

Conjunctions

Particles of existence/non-existence

The Particle of hinneh

Clauses

Nominal clauses

Verbal clauses

Interrogative clauses

Oath formulae

Disjunctive clauses

Desiderative or optative clauses

Existential clauses

Elliptical clauses

Negative clauses

Subordinate clauses

Appendixes

Stem chart

Expanded Stem chart

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