Many linguistic tools and methods are applied to biblical texts in order to gain meaning from them. Such applications do not always take into account the perspective of the investigators, the presuppositions of the methods used and the nature of the material to which it is applied. These are all factors that influence the meaning obtained from the text.
Linguistic Analysis of Biblical Hebrew takes us through the pitfalls and limitations of the methods available, considering textual transmission, comparative philology, diachronic and dialectal variation, and the impact this has on the relationship between reader, author and text. Combining a critical account of long-established approaches to Hebrew meanings with a lucid introduction to newer and more recent methods such as lexical semantics and text-linguistics, this substantial volume provides an in-depth linguistic analysis of biblical Hebrew.
This illuminating read will be of interest to undergraduates, postgraduates, those who have previously studied Hebrew and those who know no Hebrew, but would like to start somewhere.
