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Article: Text-Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew.
- Article from:
- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Article date:
- July 1, 1997
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The purpose of this book is to provide scholars of Biblical Hebrew with ready access to a text-linguistic theory and methodology which they may bring to bear on the Hebrew Bible with creative results, but without the necessity of prolonged training in general linguistics. It is well done.
Two initial chapters evaluate linguistic studies of Biblical Hebrew by Niccacci, Eskhult, Andersen, Khan, and Longacre in terms of treatment of data and communication of results. A third summarizes the tagmemic school of linguistics and sets forth Dawson's own methodology. Tagmemics is the theoretical base from which Robert E. Longacre has elaborated his model of text-linguistics ...