The essays in this volume arose out of the Society of Biblical Literature section on linguistics and Biblical Hebrew and have been selected to provide a summary

Many linguistic tools and methods are applied to biblical texts in order to gain meaning from them. Such applications do not always take into account the perspe

Based on papers presented at the 16th World Congress of Jewish Studies.

Modern linguistics is a relative newcomer in the scientific world, and text-linguistics, or discourse analysis, is one of its youngest disciplines. This fact ha

This collection of articles by an international group of specialists presents original research, new lines of inquiry, and novel insights on subjects related to