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An Introduction to Andalusi Hebrew Metrics
Throughout the last two centuries, Hebrew metrics was studied by leading linguists and specialists in medieval Hebrew poetry. Nowadays, it has disappeared from the academic discussion such that it is sometimes even difficult to find scansions or the name of the meter in new editions of poems. This book aims to rectify this gap, helping readers to understand the metric structure of this poetry i…
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- 9781805110682
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- 212 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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The mythical serpents of Hebrew literature
There seems to be no limit to human credulity as to the forms which animals may assume, or the attributes which they may possess.^ Three stages in the development of fabulous creatures may be traced: The animal is first credited with (pertain powers it does not, and probably cannot have;^ then animals altogether fabulous, but still belonging to a definite and well-known class, are supposed to e…
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- 80232599
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- cdl; americana
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- nrlf_ucb:GLAD-117547907
Ancient Prophecy Near Eastern, Biblical, and Greek Perspectives
This book is a comprehensive treatment of the ancient prophetic phenomenon as it comes to us through biblical, Near Eastern, and Greek sources. Once a distinctly biblical concept, prophecy is today acknowledged as yet another form of divination and a phenomenon that can be found all over the ancient Eastern Mediterranean. Even Greek oracle, traditionally discussed separately from biblical and M…
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Voice at the interfaces : The syntax, semantics, and morphology of the Hebrew…
This books presents the most comprehensive description and analysis to date of Hebrew morphology, with an emphasis on the verbal templates. Its aim is to develop a theory of argument structure alternations which is anchored in the syntax but has systematic interfaces with the phonology and the semantics. Concretely, the monograph argues for a specific formal system centered around possible valu…
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- 9783961102570
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- Open Generative Syntax 8
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A Guide to Biblical Hebrew Syntax
This introduces and abridges the syntactical features of the original language of the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament. Scholars have made significant progress in recent decades in understanding Biblical Hebrew syntax. Yet intermediate readers seldom have access to this progress due to the technical jargon and sometimes-obscure locations of the scholarly publications. This Guide is an intermediate…
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A Guide to Biblical Hebrew Syntax
A Guide to Biblical Hebrew Syntax introduces and abridges the syntactical features of the original language of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. An intermediate-level reference grammar for Biblical Hebrew, it assumes an understanding of elementary phonology and morphology, and it defines and illustrates the fundamental syntactical features of Biblical Hebrew that most intermediate-level readers s…
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- 9781139939591
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A Dictionary of Bible Plants
This book describes and illustrates each plant mentioned in both the Old and New Testaments and the Apocrypha. Drawing on Lytton John Musselman's extensive field investigations from Beirut to Borneo and from the Atlas to the Zagros mountains, it also includes his original images of each plant. Incorporating new research on their use, reviews are made of recent analytical studies of plants used …
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