Bits, Bytes, and Binyanim: A Quantitative Study of Verbal Lexeme Formations in the Hebrew Bible Contributor(s): Verheij, Ajc (Author) |
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ISBN: 9042907835 ISBN-13: 9789042907836 Publisher: Peeters OUR PRICE: $57.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: February 2000 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | Hebrew - Religion | Theology |
Dewey: 492.45 |
LCCN: 2002499773 |
Series: Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta |
Physical Information: 177 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |