A Guide to Biblical Hebrew Syntax

by Bill T. Arnold , John H. Choi

• ISBN13: 9780521533485
• ISBN10: 0521533481
• Edition: Bilingual
• Format: Paperback
• 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

Part I. Introduction: Part II. Nouns: 1. Nominative

2. Genitive

3. Accusative

4. Apposition

5. Adjectives

6. Determination

Part III. Verbs: 7. Stem

8. Aspect

9. Modals

10. Non-finites

11. Verbal coordination

Part IV. Particles: 12. Prepositions

13. Adverbs

14. Conjunctions

15. Particles of existence/non-existence

16. The Particle of hinneh

Part V. Clauses: 17. Nominal clauses

18. Verbal clauses

19. Interrogative clauses

20. Oath formulae

21. Disjunctive clauses

22. Desiderative or optative clauses

23. Existential clauses

24. Elliptical clauses

25. Negative clauses

26. Subordinate clauses

Part VI. Appendixes: 27. Stem chart

28. Expanded Stem chart.