A handbook of biblical Hebrew / edited by W. Randall Garr and Steven E. Fassberg. [print]

This title consists of 2 physical volumes sold only as a set.

Includes bibliographical references.

VOLUME ONE

Part I: Phases of Biblical Hebrew Standard/Classical Biblical Hebrew Joseph Lam and Dennis Pardee Archaic Biblical Hebrew Agustinus Gianto Transitional Biblical Hebrew Aaron D. Hornkohl Late Biblical Hebrew Matthew Morgenstern

Part II: Contemporary Hebrew Attestations Epigraphic Hebrew Shmuel Ahituv, W. Randall Garr, and Steven E. Fassberg Ben Sira Wido van Peursen The Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls Jan Joosten

Part III: Ancient and Medieval Reading Traditions Hebrew in Greek and Latin Transcriptions Alexey Eliyahu Yuditsky Samaritan Tradition Moshe Florentin Babylonian Tradition Shai Heijmans Karaite Transcriptions of Biblical Hebrew Geoffrey Khan Palestinian Tradition Joseph Yahalom Tiberian-Palestinian Tradition Holger Gzella

Part IV: Essays The Tiberian Tradition of Reading the Bible and the Masoretic System Yosef Ofer The Contribution of Tannaitic Hebrew to Understanding Biblical Hebrew Moshe Bar-Asher Modern Reading Traditions of Biblical Hebrew Aharon Maman.

VOLUME TWO

Part I: Phases of Biblical Hebrew Standard/Classical Biblical Hebrew Joseph Lam and Dennis Pardee Archaic Biblical Hebrew Agustinus Gianto Transitional Biblical Hebrew Aaron D. Hornkohl Late Biblical Hebrew Matthew Morgenstern

Part II: Contemporary Hebrew Attestations Epigraphic Hebrew Shmuel Ahituv, W. Randall Garr, and Steven E. Fassberg Ben Sira Wido van Peursen The Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls Jean-Sebastien Rey and Jan Joosten

Part III: Ancient and Medieval Reading Traditions Hebrew in Greek and Latin Transcriptions Alexey Eliyahu Yuditsky Samaritan Tradition Moshe Florentin Babylonian Tradition Shai Heijmans Karaite Transcriptions of Biblical Hebrew Geoffrey Khan Palestinian Tradition Joseph Yahalom Tiberian-Palestinian Tradition Holger Gzella

Part IV: Essays The Tiberian Tradition of Reading the Bible and the Masoretic System Yosef Ofer Modern Reading Traditions of Biblical Hebrew Aharon Maman.

Volume 1. Periods, corpora, and reading traditions Volume 2. Selected texts.

"Biblical Hebrew is studied worldwide by university students, seminarians, and the educated public. It is also studied, almost universally, through a single prism--that of the Tiberian Masoretic tradition, which is the best attested and most widely available tradition of biblical Hebrew. Thanks in large part to its endorsement by Maimonides, it also became the most prestigious of vocalization tradition in the Middle Ages. For most, biblical Hebrew is synonymous with Tiberian biblical Hebrew. There are, however, other vocalization traditions. What is still lacking is a comprehensive and systematic overview of the different periods, sources, and traditions of biblical Hebrew. This handbook provides students and the public with easily accessible, reliable, and current information in English concerning the multi-faceted nature of biblical Hebrew. Noted scholars in each of the various fields contributed their expertise. The result is the present two-volume work. The first contains an in-depth introduction to each tradition; and the second presents sample accompanying texts that exemplify the descriptions of the parallel introductory chapters"--

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In English and Hebrew.