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Bits, Bytes, and Binyanim: A Quantitative Study of Verbal Lexeme Formations in the Hebrew Bible
Contributor(s): Verheij, Ajc (Author)
ISBN: 9042907835     ISBN-13: 9789042907836
Publisher: Peeters
OUR PRICE:   $57.00  
Product Type: Hardcover
Published: February 2000
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BISAC Categories:
- Foreign Language Study | Hebrew
- Religion | Theology
Dewey: 492.45
LCCN: 2002499773
Series: Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta
Physical Information: 177 pages
 
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This study offers a new approach to one of the central elements of Hebrew and Semitic grammar, viz. the binyanim or conjugations. Using various quantitative methods, the book analyzes the complete verbal vocabulary of the Hebrew Bible as contained in the machine-readable text developed at the Werkgroep Informatica (Department of Biblical Studies, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam) focusing on morphological characteristics as well as on some basic semantic and syntactic features. It is argued, i.a., that the Qal should be regarded as the default binyan of the Hebrew Bible, and that the Pi el acts to some extent as a rival to the Qal. Among the features discussed, it is transitivity which emerges as the most important one. The author (1959) reads theology at the University of Amsterdam, specializing in Old Testament studies and Biblical Hebrew. After his 1990 Leiden PhD on a linguistic comparison of the books of Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles, he joined the Werkgroep Informatica in 1992.