Hebrew of the late Second Temple period
An edition of Hebrew of the late Second Temple period (2015)
proceedings of a sixth international symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea scrolls and Ben Sira
By Belgium) International Symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ben Sira (6th 2011 Louvain
Publish Date
2015
Publisher
Brill
Language
eng
Pages
211
Description:
"The Hebrew of the Late Second Temple Period is directly attested in the Scrolls from Qumran and other manuscripts discovered in the Judaean Desert. Indirectly, it is also found in some manuscripts copied in later times, which still preserve linguistic elements of the Hebrew from the period in which the texts were authored. Often referred to as the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls or Qumran Hebrew, and positioned chronologically between Biblical Hebrew and Mishnaic Hebrew, its nature remains disputed. Some essays in this volume deal with linguistic and philological problems of this Late Second Temple Period Hebrew. Other papers discuss the nature and linguistic profile of the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls"--