Editor’s Preface

Abbreviations

Introduction

Walter R. Bodine - The Study of Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew

Phonology: Structural

Monica S. Devens - What Descriptive Phonologists Do: One Approach to the Study of Language, with Particular Attention to Biblical Hebrew

E. J. Revell - The Development of Segol in an Open Syllable as a Reflex of a: An Exercise in Descriptive Phonology

Phonology: Generative

Edward L. Greenstein - An Introduction to a Generative Phonology of Biblical Hebrew

Gregory Enos - Phonological Considerations in the Study of Hebrew Phonetics: An Introductory Discussion

Morphology

W. Randall Garr - The Linguistic Study of Morphology

Gary A. Rendsburg - Morphological Evidence for Regional Dialects in Ancient Hebrew

Syntax

Walter R. Bodine - How Linguists Study Syntax

Barry L. Bandstra - Word Order and Emphasis in Biblical Hebrew Narrative: Syntactic Observations on Genesis 22 from a Discourse Perspective

Semantics

Harold P. Scanlin - The Study of Semantics in General Linguistics

James Barr - Hebrew Lexicography: Informal Thoughts

Discourse Analysis

Peter J. MacDonald - Discourse Analysis and Biblical Interpretation

R. E. Longacre - Discourse Perspective on the Hebrew Verb: Affirmation and Restatement

Historical/Comparative Linguistics

Alice Faber - Innovation, Retention, and Language Comparison: An Introduction to Historical/Comparative Linguistics

John Huehnergard - Historical Phonology and the Hebrew Piel

Graphemics

M. O’Connor - Writing Systems and Native-Speaker Analyses

Stephen J. Lieberman - Toward a Graphemics of the Tiberian Bible

Appendix

Walter R. Bodine - Bibliography

Indexes

Index of Authorities

Index of Scripture References