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description: Twenty-two papers selected from a 1993 Seminar in Dallas attended by a combination of professional Bible translators biblical scholars and discourse linguists are divided into three Grammatical Syntactical and Accent Studies; Narrative Genre; and Topics Related to Nonnarratives Genres. There is an introductory essay by C.H.J. van der Merwe which will help non-specialists. The authors are translation personnel and consultants from SIL International and the United Bible Societies as well as scholars from Denmark Sweden Holland South Africa Israel and the United States. Shares interaction of linguists and biblical scholars to provide exciting insights into the understanding of biblical texts. Foreward Francis I. AndersonPreface Robert D. BergenPart Grammatical Syntactical and Accent Studies1. Discourse Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew Grammar Christo H. J. van der Merwe2. Weqatal Forms in Biblical Hebrew Prose Robert E. Longacre3. Salience Implicature Ambiguity and Redundancy in Clause-Clause Relationships in Biblical Hebrew Francis I. Andersen4. On the Hebrew Verbal System Alviero Niccacci5. Methodological Collision between Source Criticism and Discourse Analysis Randall Buth6. A Discourse Perspective on the Significance of the Masoretic Accents Lars LodePart Narrative Genre7. Analysis of Biblical Narrative Alviero Niccacci8. Introducing Direct Discourse in Biblical Hebrew Narrative Cynthia L. Miller9. Genealogical Prominence and the Structure of Genesis T. David Andersen10.Some Literary and Grammatical Aspects of Genealogies in Genesis Nicholas Andrew Bailey11. Is Genesis 27:46 P or J? And How the Answer Affects Translation Hanni Kuhn12. The Miraculous Grammar of Joshua 3-4 Nicolai Winther-Nielsen13. Evil Spirits and Eccentric Grammar Robert D. Bergen14. A Textlinguistic Approach to the Biblical Hebrew Narrative of Jonah Robert E. Longacre and Shin Ja J. HwangPart Topics Relating to Nonnarrative Genres15. Functions and Implications of Rhetorical Questions in the Book of Job Lnart J. de Regt16. Genre Criticism and the Psalms Ernst R. Wendland17. Genre and Form Criticism in Old Testament Exegesis Bo-Krister Ljungberg18. Hebrew Proverbs and How to Translate Them Murray Salisbury19. Units and Flow in the Song of Songs 1:1-2:6 John Callow20. Some Discourse Functions of Prophetic Quotation Formulas in Jeremiah H. Van Dyke Parunak21. The Poetic Properties of Prophetic Discourse in the Book of Micah Francis I. Andersen22. Vision and Oracle in Zechariah 1-6 David J. Clark
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title: Biblical Hebrew and Discourse Linguistics
publisher: Summer Institute of Linguistics