Contextual Priority in Biblical Hebrew Philology

An Application of the Held Method for Comparative Semitic Philology
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-90-04-11670-2
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, Band 84, 180 Seiten

Reihe: Vetus Testamentum, Supplements

According to the author, a contextual approach should be taken when determining the meaning of Biblical Hebrew. This volume introduces the concept of contextual priority, offers a complete held method for comparative Semitic philology, and presents eighteen individual word studies. Furthermore, it contains comprehensive bibliography and indices.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cohen, Chaim

Über Autor(innen)

Chaim (Harold R.) Cohen, Ph.D. (1975) in Ancient Semitic Languages, Columbia University, is Associate Professor of Biblical Hebrew and Ancient Semitic Languages at Ben-Gurion University (Beer-Sheva, Israel). He has published extensively on Biblical Hebrew, and Ugaritic philology including Biblical Hapax Legomena in the Light of Akkadian and Ugaritic (Scholars Press, 1978).