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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 12:37:27
From: Marjolein Schaake [schaake at brill.com]
Subject: The Verbal System of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Penner

 


Title: The Verbal System of the Dead Sea Scrolls 
Subtitle: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in Qumran Hebrew Texts 
Series Title: Studia Semitica Neerlandica  

Publication Year: 2015 
Publisher: Brill
	   http://www.brill.com
	

Book URL: http://www.brill.com/products/book/verbs-dead-sea-scrolls 


Author: Ken M Penner

Hardback: ISBN:  9789004298439 Pages: 240 Price: Europe EURO 99
Hardback: ISBN:  9789004298439 Pages: 240 Price: U.S. $ 128


Abstract:

In The Verbal System of the Dead Sea Scrolls Ken M. Penner determines whether Qumran Hebrew finite verbs are primarily temporal, aspectual, or modal. 

Standard grammars claim Hebrew was aspect-prominent in the Bible, and tense-prominent in the Mishnah. But the semantic value of the verb forms in the intervening period in which the Dead Sea Scrolls were written has remained controversial.

Penner answers the question of Qumran Hebrew verb form semantics using an empirical method: a database calculating the correlation between each form and each function, establishing that the ancient author’s selection of verb form is determined not by aspect, but by tense or modality. Penner then applies these findings to controversial interpretations of three Qumran texts. 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Semantics
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Hebrew, Ancient (hbo)

Language Family(ies): Semitic


Written In: English  (eng)

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