Biblical Hebrew Grammar Visualized

by Francis I. Andersen; A. Dean Forbes

Publisher:

Eisenbrauns

, 2012

Overview

In Biblical Hebrew Grammar Visualized, Francis Andersen and A. Dean Forbes approach the grammar of biblical Hebrew from the perspective of corpus linguistics. Their pictorial representations of the clauses making up the biblical texts show the grammatical functions and semantic roles of clausal constituents, as well as the grammatical relations that bind the constituents into coherent structures.

This book carefully introduces the Andersen-Forbes approach to text preparation and characterization. It describes and tallies the kinds of phrases and clauses encountered across all of biblical Hebrew. It classifies and gives examples of the major constituents that form clauses, focusing especially on the grammatical functions and semantic roles. The book presents the structures of the constituents and uses their patterns of incidence both to examine word order and to characterize the relations among verb corpora. It expounds in detail the characteristics of quasiverbals, verbless clauses, discontinuous and double-duty clausal constituents, and supra-clausal structures.

This volume is intended for students of biblical Hebrew at all levels. Beginning students will readily grasp the basic grammatical structures making up the clauses because they are few and fairly simple. Intermediate and advanced students will profit from the detailed descriptions and comparative analyses of the structures making up the biblical texts. Scholars will find fresh ways of addressing open problems, while gaining glimpses of new research approaches and topics along the way.

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Contents

Top Highlights

“Biblical Hebrew Grammar Visualized (BHGV) is an initial foray, trying out the corpus linguistics way of doing research on the grammar of Biblical Hebrew. While there is much in the book that beginning students of Biblical Hebrew will grasp, it is primarily intended for intermediate and advanced students of Biblical Hebrew, as well as researchers in the area.” (Page xi)

“Mathematically speaking, a phrase marker is a tree” (Page 11)

“The grammatical significance of the semantics of verb roots is not taken into account. Otherwise, what is called ‘verb syntax’ is engaged with the problem of tense and aspect in the Hebrew verbal system.” (Page 8)

“The enduring value of this tradition is appreciated. It takes each clause as a whole, as a discrete unit in discourse, but with little consideration of what is inside it.” (Page 9)

“We identify with the latter camp, seeing grammatical relations as transitioning smoothly into discourse” (Page 7)

Product Details

• Title: Biblical Hebrew Grammar Visualized
• Authors: Francis I. Andersen, A. Dean Forbes
• Series: Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic
• Publisher: Eisenbrauns
• Print Publication Date: 2012
• Logos Release Date: 2013
• Pages: 412
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Hebrew language › Grammar
• Resource ID: LLS:BBLCLHBRWGRMMRV
• Resource Type: Grammar
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-11T17:10:53Z

About the Authors

Francis I. Andersen is an Australian scholar and biblical Hebrew expert. Together with A. Dean Forbes, he pioneered computer analysis of biblical Hebrew syntax. He has taught and worked in leadership at several institutions across Australia and the United States. He is the author of Studies in Hebrew and Aramaic Orthography and has contributed to the Anchor Yale Bible, Tyndale Commentaries, and more.

A. Dean Forbes manages speech recognition research at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. He obtained his degrees from Harvard and the Pacific School of Religion. His interests include computer-assisted research in linguistics. Together with Francis I. Andersen, he pioneered computer analysis of biblical Hebrew syntax.