Lexham Hebrew Bible: Cantillation Analysis Documentation

by Rick Brannan

Publisher:

Faithlife

, 2017

Overview

The Hebrew/Aramaic writing system entails two sets of marks: nikudim (vowel points) and te‘amim, variously called cantillation marks, accents, or trop(e)s. This resource provides documentation for a suite of resources that visualize the cantillation marks as a hierarchy, using a “binary” tree diagram and other methods to annotate the cantillation marks in the Hebrew Bible.

Contents

Top Highlights

“The marks and rules are different for prose texts and poetry texts. There are three books that use rules for poetry. These are Job, Psalms, and Proverbs. All other books, from the perspective of application of mark system, are prose.” (source)

“The Hebrew/Aramaic writing system entails two sets of marks: nikudim (vowel points) and te‘amim, variously called cantillation marks, accents, or trop(e)s.” (source)

“While the mark system devised by the Masoretes over 1000 years ago is helpful, there are places where multiple analyses are possible. This application of the mark system generally follows the work of Helmut Richter in Hebrew Cantillation Marks and Their Encoding. Further, there are points of ambiguity within the system. Where ambiguities arise, the Lexham Hebrew Bible: Cantillation Analysis generally follows the same algorithm implemented in the Hebrew Cantillations Interactive.” (source)

“What emerges is a tree that conforms to a strict binary branching rule” (source)

“From the Documents menu, select Syntax Search. Make sure that Lexham Hebrew Bible: Cantillation Analysis Database is the selected database. Click on the Add search terms here text, and select from the desired rank objects. Once an object is active, properties can be added using the panel on the right of the window. When your search is structured to your satisfaction, click Search. The results will appear in a Search Results window.” (source)

Product Details

• Title: Lexham Hebrew Bible: Cantillation Analysis Documentation
• Author: Rick Brannan
• Publisher: Faithlife
• Print Publication Date: 2017
• Logos Release Date: 2017
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Grammar › Hebrew; Syntax › Hebrew
• Resource ID: LLS:CIDBDOCLEXHEBBIB
• Resource Type: Manual
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:22:57Z

About Rick Brannan

Rick Brannan is the translator of The Apostolic Fathers in English, author and translator of Greek Apocryphal Gospels, Fragments, and Agrapha, and managing editor of the Lexham English Septuagint. He has also published Greek Reader Editions of the Acts of Pilate and the First Apocryphal Apocalypse of John. He is currently researching the Greek text of the Shepherd of Hermas for a forthcoming publication.