Table of Contents

Abbreviations

Publisher’s Foreword

1. Introduction

1.1. Linguistics: Historical, Comparative, Synchronic

1.2. A Short Description of Biblical Hebrew

1.3. Dialect Diversity in Biblical Hebrew

1.4. The Later History of Hebrew

1.5. Biblical Hebrew and Semitic

1.6. A Family-Tree Model for Semitic

1.7. A Wave Model for Semitic

1.8. Afro-Asiatic

1.9. Sound Shifts and Relative Chronology

1.10. Etymology and Sound Shifts

1.11. Change in Language

1.12. Reconstruction of Proto-Semitic Forms

1.13. Internal Reconstruction

1.14. Exceptions to Sound Shifts, Real and Apparent

1.15. Analogy

1.16. Sound Shifts, Analogy, and Exceptions

1.17. Loan Words, ‘Weak’ Phonetic Change, and Pseudo-Corrections

1.18. Conflicts of Function and Language Change

1.19. Assimilation, Dissimilation, Metathesis

1.20. Divisions of the Study of Language

2. Phonetics

2.1. Introduction

2.2. Consonants and Vowels

2.3. Duration

2.4. Place of Articulation

2.5. Resonance Chamber

2.6. Voiced and Unvoiced

2.7. Emphatics

2.8. Summary of the Consonants

2.9. Stress and Syllabification

3. Phonology

3.1. Introduction

3.2. Hebrew and the Proto-Semitic Consonants

3.3. The Consonants of Hebrew

3.4. The Semi-Consonants

3.5. The Vowels of Hebrew

4. Morphology

4.1. Introduction

4.2. Pronouns

4.3. Verbs

4.4. The Noun

4.5. Remarks on the Numerals

5.1. Remarks on Prepositions

5.2. Remarks on Connective and Conversive Waw

Paradigms

Bibliography

Index of Authors

Index of Scripture Citations

Index of Topics