Hebrew Texts and Language of the Second Temple Period: Proceedings of an Eighth Symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ben Sira

Contents
Preface
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Chapter 1 On Some Words in Two of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Chapter 2 The Aramaic Influence on Mishnaic Hebrew: Borrowing or Interference?
Chapter 3 A Reappraisal of Three Philological Comparisons between Biblical Hebrew and the Hebrew of Ben Sira
Chapter 4 Sixty Years of Publications on the Dead Sea Scrolls: Discoveries in the Judaean Desert in Perspective
Chapter 5 Trends and Methodologies in the Study of Qumran Hebrew
Chapter 6 The Word אמת in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Chapter 7 The wqatal Form in Sectarian Instructive Texts
Chapter 8 The Linguistic Profile of Select Reworked Bible Material vis-à-vis Masoretic Hebrew and Some Ramifications Thereof
Chapter 9 The Hebrew of the Book of Jubilees at Qumran
Chapter 10 The Discoveries in the Judaean Desert (DJD) Series and the Linguistic Study of Ancient Hebrew
Chapter 11 Hidden and Evident Aramaic Influences on Qumran Hebrew
Chapter 12 Verbal Rection in Qumran Hebrew
Chapter 13 The Significance of the Finite Verb Conjugations in the Hebrew Dead Sea Scrolls
Chapter 14 Aramaisms in Hymn 32 (1QHa 24:2–25:33)
Chapter 15 Geminate Verbs in the Hebrew of the Wisdom of Ben Sira
Chapter 16 Language and Group Identity in the Dead Sea Scrolls: The Case for an “Essene Hebrew”
Chapter 17 The Infinitive Absolute in Samaritan Hebrew
Chapter 18 The Use of גם and אף in Qumran Hebrew
Chapter 19 Orthographic Practices in the Biblical Texts
Chapter 20 Promises and Challenges in Designing Stylometric Analyses for Classical Hebrew
Chapter 21 New Readings in the “Commentary on Genesis D” (4Q254a) Scroll
Index of Words and Phrases
Index of Ancient Texts
Index of Subjects