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Syntax of the Verb in Classical Hebrew Prose
Continuum International Publishing 1990; US$ 90.00This paper attempts to describe the Hebrew verbal system by (1) giving a linguistic orientation for understanding the verb, (2) interacting with past theories and building on recent studies, (3) correlating form and function in a model which accounts adequately and simply for the range of usage. more...
Biblical Hebrew
Continuum International Publishing 2003; US$ 170.00Leading Hebrew language scholars outline various views on the phenomenon of variation in biblical Hebrew and its significance for biblical studies. An important question that is addressed is whether late biblical Hebrew is a distinct chronological phase within the history of biblical Hebrew. Articles explore both chronological and non-chronological... more...
Text-Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew
Continuum International Publishing 1994; US$ 140.00Modern linguistics is a relative newcomer in the scientific world, and text-linguistics, or discourse analysis, is one of its youngest disciplines. This fact has inclined many toward scepticism of its value for the Hebraist, yet much benefit is thereby overlooked. In this work, the author examines recent contributions to Hebrew text-linguistics by... more...
Studies in Medieval Jewish Poetry
BRILL 2008; US$ 175.00From Iraq to Spain, from Germany to Cataluna, from Italy to Yemen, poetry has been for centuries a privileged mode of expression in the Jewish world. This work analyses the different themes and authors of this tradition, providing fresh insights to well-known authors or proposing less celebrated works as equally worthy of study. more...
Scripture in Transition
BRILL 2008; US$ 247.00Offers evidence and examples of textual traditions and interpretations that were in use in various communities. This book illuminates the transitions that took place in one faction of Judaism. It covers topics divided into five parts including: Translation and Interpretation; Textual History; Hebrew and Greek Linguistics; and, Dead Sea Scrolls. more...
Conservatism and Innovation in the Hebrew Language of the Hellenistic Period
BRILL 2007; US$ 138.00Contains 15 contributions presented at a symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls & Ben Sira, held in Strasbourg on May 29 and 30, 2006. This title addresses linguistic and philological issues. more...
The Fall of a Sparrow
Stanford University Press 2009; US$ 67.50The Fall of a Sparrow recounts the life and times of Abba Kovner, partisan, poet, patriot, an unsung and largely unknown hero of the Second World War and Israel's War of Independence. more...
Faithful Renderings
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 25.00Faithful Renderings reads translation history through the lens of Jewish–Christian difference and, conversely, views Jewish–Christian difference as an effect of translation. Subjecting translation to a theological-political analysis, Seidman asks how the charged Jewish–Christian relationship—and more particularly the dependence... more...
Czernowitz at 100
Lexington Books 2010; US$ 69.99Czernowitz at 100 represents a collection that assesses the achievements and fate of those who participated in the 1908 Yiddish Language Conference that was held in Czernowitz, now known as Chernivtsi in Ukraine. Featuring contributions from a new generation of scholars re-examining eastern European Jewish life, each contributor examines the successes... more...
In Spite of Partition
Princeton University Press 2010; US$ 46.95Partition--the idea of separating Jews and Arabs along ethnic or national lines--is a legacy at least as old as the Zionist-Palestinian conflict. Challenging the widespread "separatist imagination" behind partition, Gil Hochberg demonstrates the ways in which works of contemporary Jewish and Arab literature reject simple notions of separatism and... more...









