The Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls

The Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls / Elisha Qimron......Page 2
Acknowledgements......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Abbreviations......Page 12
Symbols......Page 16
0.11 Previous Studies of the DSS Language......Page 17
0.13 The Method......Page 18
100.2. Waw as a Vowel Letter......Page 20
100.21 Special Defective Spellings......Page 21
100.33 Orthographic Representation of Medial e......Page 22
100.5 Digraphs -w'-, -'w-, -y'-, -'y- in Medial Position......Page 23
100.52 Analysis of the Digraph System......Page 24
100.61 Medial Alef Representing the Vowels a, e......Page 25
100.7 He and Alef as Final Vowel Letters for a, e......Page 26
100.9 Orthographic Representation of Consonantal Waw, Yod and Glides......Page 27
200.11 Weakening of the Gutterals......Page 28
200.14 Weakening of the Resh......Page 29
200.143 Addition and Elision of a Nasal in Final Position......Page 30
200.15 The Sibilants Shin, Sin, Samekh......Page 31
200.16 Assimilation of Nun......Page 33
200.17 Assimilation of Yod (and Waw)......Page 34
200.18 The Descending Dipthongs aw, uy in Final Position......Page 36
200.22 Recording of the Proto-Semitic Short u......Page 38
200.24 Pronunciation of the Qutl Pattern......Page 39
200.241 The Spellings of the Qutl Pattern (Singular without Suffixes)......Page 40
200.26 Waw (=o, u) instead of a, e......Page 42
200.27 Accentuation (and Vowel-Length)......Page 43
310.11 The Afformatives of the Perfect......Page 46
310.122 The n/'tl(h) Pattern......Page 47
310.129 The Imperfect with Waw......Page 48
310.13 The Afformatives of the Imperative......Page 49
310.14 The Infinitive......Page 50
310.16 The Conjugations (Binyanim)......Page 51
311.13 Imperfect Qal......Page 53
311.14 Imperative Qal......Page 56
311.15 Infinitive Qal......Page 57
311.5 Hithpael......Page 58
316.6 Verbs '-w Hifil......Page 59
321.13 3rd Person Singular......Page 60
322.12 2nd Person Singular......Page 61
322.141 -yw = o......Page 62
322.143 Imperfect Suffixes with and without Nun......Page 63
322.144 The Aramaic Suffix -why......Page 64
322.18 3rd Person Plural......Page 65
322.182 The Doublets -wtm / -wtyhm......Page 66
322.2* Conclusion......Page 67
330.1* Noun Formation......Page 68
330.3* The Plural Endings......Page 70
330.4* Nouns which Differ in Gender from their BH Counterparts......Page 71
340* He as a Locative Termination......Page 72
400.02* Pjredicative Use of the Infinitive......Page 73
400.03* Temporal Clauses of the Type wbqtlw......Page 75
400.04* Temporal Usage of 'm + Infinitive......Page 76
400.06* Doubly-marked Plural of Attributive Constructs......Page 77
400.08* Pronominal Direct Objects......Page 78
400.11* 'sr and s- Introducing Prohibitions and Commands......Page 80
400.12 Negation of the Infinitive......Page 81
400.13 Prohibitive use of 'l......Page 83
400.15 (kl) X w-X......Page 84
400.16 ('sr) l... / sl .........Page 85
400.18 Collective Nouns......Page 86
400.19 qatal Expressing the Future Perfect in Conditional Sentences......Page 87
400.20* On the Syntax of the Numerals......Page 88
500.01* In General......Page 90
500.1* Words Mainly Attested in the DSS and in the Late Biblical Books......Page 91
500.2 Words Mainly Attested in the DSS and in the Tannaitic and Amoraitic [MH2] Literature......Page 101
500.3 Words Not Attested either in BH or in MH......Page 108
600* The Nature of DSS Hebrew and its Position among the Other Traditions of the Hebrew Language......Page 119
Subject Index......Page 122
Word Index......Page 129