Conservatism and Innovation in the Hebrew Language of the Hellenistic Period: Proceedings of a Fourth International Symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls & Ben Sira.

Octavo in dust jacket, xii, 252 pp., index of texts, index of Semitic words and phrases, index of modern authors Studies on the Texts of the Desert [73]. Articles are "Un group de mots en hebréu et quomranique: étude sémantique," Moshe Bar-Asher, "Amoraic Hebrew in the Light of Ben-Sira's Linguistic Innovations," Haim Dihi, "Some Aspects of the Verbal System in Qumran Hebrew," Mats Eskhult,"The Infinitive Absolute as Finite Verb and Standard Literary Hebrew of the Second Temple Period," Steven E. Fassberg, "Constituent Order in Existential Clauses," Pierre van Hecke, "Circumstantial qualifiers in Qumran Hebrew: Reflections on adjunct expressions in The Manual of Discipline (1QS)," Bo Isaksson, "L'excédent massorétique du livre de Jérémie et l'hébreu post-classique," Jan Joosten, "Remarques sur le vocabulaire hébreu de l'enseignement et de l'étude á Qumrân et dans Ben Sira," André Lemaire, "The morphosyntax of the construct phrase in Qumran Hebrew," Takamitsu Muraoka, "The word [tehalif] in Ben Sira," Wido van Peursen, "The Type [va-evneh] in the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls," Elisha Qimron, "Quelques particularités linguistiques communes á 4QInstruction et á Ben Sira," Jean-Sébastian Rey, "Spoken Hebrew of the Late Second Temple period according to oral and written Samaritan Tradition," Stefan Schorsch, "[Khen ne-eman lekhah im betulah](Ben Sira 20, 4; 30, 20) Meaning and Transmission," David Talshir and Zipora Talshir, "The weak consonants in the Language of the Dead Sea Scrolls and in the Hexapla Transliteration," Alexay (Eliyahu) Yuditsky.…