The Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ben Sira: Proceedings of a Symposium Held at Leiden University 11-14 December 1995 (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah)

In December 1995 an international symposium was held in Leiden, concerning the subject of the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the book of Ben Sira. The papers, presented at this symposium, are collected in this volume. The papers deal with various aspects of grammar, syntax, and lexicon of Hebrew texts of the Judean Desert. They include the first publications of a Nahal Hever text, and the important apocryphal book of Ben Sira. The Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls & Ben Sira / T. Muraoka & J.F. Elwolde......Page 1 Table of Contents......Page 6 Preface......Page 8 Bibliographical Abbreviations......Page 10 Nominal Clauses Containing a Personal Pronoun in Qumran Hebrew / M.F.J. Baasten......Page 12 Developments in Hebrew Vocabulary between Bible and Mishnah / J.F. Elwolde......Page 28 On the Syntax of Dependent Clauses in Ben Sira / S.E. Fassberg......Page 67 The Linguistic Status of Ben Sira as a Link between Biblical and Mishnaic Hebrew: Lexicographical Aspects / A. Hurvitz......Page 83 The Syntax of כי in the Language of Ben Sira / M.Z. Kaddari......Page 98 Verb Complementation in Qumran Hebrew / T. Muraoka......Page 103 Die hebräische Sprache der Naḥal Ḥever Dokumente 5/6Ḥev 44-46 / G.W. Nebe......Page 161 Periphrastic Tenses in Ben Sira / W.T. van Peursen......Page 169 A New Approach to the Use of Forms of the Imperfect Without Personal Endings / E. Qimron......Page 185 How To Write a Poem: The Case of Psalm 151A (11QPsa 28.3-12) / M.S. Smith......Page 193 Index of Texts Cited......Page 220 In December 1995 an international symposium was held in Leiden, concerning the subject of Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the book of Ben Sira. The papers, presented at this symposium and collected in this volume, deal with various aspects of grammar, syntax, and lexicon of Hebrew texts of the Judean Desert. They include the first publications of a Nahal Hever text, and the important apocryphal book of Ben Sira. This is a publication of papers presented and discussed at the first international congress on the Hebrew language of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the book of Ben Sira held in Leiden in December, 1995. The papers deal with various aspects of the grammar, syntax, and lexicon of the Hebrew of the post-biblical texts.