From ancient manuscripts to modern dictionaries : select studies in Aramaic, Hebrew, and Greek / edited by Tarsee Li, Keith Dyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Society of Biblical Literature. International Meeting.

Contributor:

Li, Tarsee, editor.

Dyer, Keith D., 1951- editor.

Series:

Perspectives on linguistics and ancient languages ; 9.

Perspectives on linguistics and ancient languages ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aramaic language--Lexicography--Congresses.

Aramaic language.

Hebrew language--Lexicography--Congresses.

Hebrew language.

Greek language--Lexicography--Congresses.

Greek language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 507 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Piscataway, New Jersey : Gorgias Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

These articles on Aramaic, Hebrew, and Greek lexicography have arisen from papers presented at the International Syriac Language Project's 14th International Conference in St. Petersburg in 2014.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Preface

Abbreviations

Introduction

Part 1: Aramaic Studies

What to Do About Citing Ambiguity in a Corpus-Specific Lexicon / Falla, Terry C.

The Jewish Recension of a Syriac Version of Aesop's Fables / Goldstein, Binyamin Y.

Syriac Manuscripts from Turfan: Public Worship and Private Devotion / Hunter, Erica C. D.

Greek Imperatives and Corresponding Expressions in Christian Palestinian Aramaic / Li, Tarsee

Reading the Bible with the Taḥtāyā ḏa-Ṯlāṯā / Loopstra, Jonathan

A New Mandaic Dictionary: Challenges, Accomplishments, and Prospects / Morgenstern, Matthew

Qlido d-Leshono-Key of Language: A Comprehensive Syriac Lexicon by Abbot Yuyakim of Tur Islo / Augin Aydin, Mor Polycarpus

Psalm 2 in Syriac: Issues of Text and Language / Taylor, Richard A.

Part 2: Hebrew Studies

A Few Notes concerning the Reading of הסירותי in the Great Isaiah Scroll (Isa 50:6b) / Von Buettner, Cyrill

Cognitive Methodology in the Study of an Ancient Language: Impediments and Possibilities / Burton, Marilyn E.

Towards a Science of Comparative Classical Hebrew Lexicography / Clines, David J. A.

On Dating Biblical Hebrew Texts: Sources of Uncertainty / Analytic Options / Forbes, A. Dean

A Re-Examination of Grammatical Categorization in Biblical Hebrew / Miller-Naudé, Cynthia L. / Naudé, Jacobus A.

Internationalisms in the Hebrew Press 1860s-1910s as a Means of Language Modernization / Yampolskaya, Sonya

Part 3: Greek Studies

Preventing Drunkenness in the Christian Gathering: Hints from the Graeco- Roman World and the New Testament / Alikin, Valeriy

Basileia or Imperium? Rome and the Rhetoric of Resistance in the Revelation to John / Dyer, Keith

The Birth of European Linguistic Theory: The Idea of Language in the Sophists / Grintser, Nikolay P.

Amazement, Fear and Being Troubled in Responses in Gospel Miracle Stories: Establishing the Semantic Contours of the Terms and their Interrelations / Kiffiak, Jordash

The Ass and the Lyre: On a Greek Proverb / Levinskaja, Olga

Constituent Order in and Usages of εἰμί - Participle Combinations in the Synoptics and Acts / Levinsohn, Stephen H.

Redundancy, Discontinuity and Delimitation in the Epistle of James / Runge, Steven E.

An Examination of Metarepresentation as an Essential Feature of Written and Oral Communication / Sim, Margaret

Prayer and the Papyri at Oxyrhynchus / Theophilos, Michael P.

The Lexicographic Editor and the Problem of Consistency / Thompson, Anne

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781463237073

1463237073

OCLC:

1100457339