LINGUIST List 26.3618

Thu Aug 13 2015

Books: The Verbal System of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Penner

Editor for this issue: Sara Couture <saralinguistlist.org>

Date: 13-Aug-2015
From: Marjolein Schaake <schaakebrill.com>
Subject: The Verbal System of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Penner
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Title: The Verbal System of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Subtitle: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in Qumran Hebrew Texts
Series Title: Studia Semitica Neerlandica
Published: 2015
Publisher: Brill
                http://www.brill.com

Book URL: http://www.brill.com/products/book/verbs-dead-sea-scrolls

Author: Ken M Penner
Hardback: ISBN: 9789004298439 Pages: 240 Price: Europe EURO 99
Hardback: ISBN: 9789004298439 Pages: 240 Price: U.S. $ 128
Abstract:

In The Verbal System of the Dead Sea Scrolls Ken M. Penner determines whether Qumran Hebrew finite verbs are primarily temporal, aspectual, or modal.

Standard grammars claim Hebrew was aspect-prominent in the Bible, and tense-prominent in the Mishnah. But the semantic value of the verb forms in the intervening period in which the Dead Sea Scrolls were written has remained controversial.

Penner answers the question of Qumran Hebrew verb form semantics using an empirical method: a database calculating the correlation between each form and each function, establishing that the ancient author’s selection of verb form is determined not by aspect, but by tense or modality. Penner then applies these findings to controversial interpretations of three Qumran texts.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                            Semantics
                            Typology

Subject Language(s): Hebrew, Ancient (hbo)
Language Family(ies): Semitic

Written In: English (eng)

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