Browsing Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies (BRGS): Faculty Publications by Title
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דימון (Isa 15:9) and להמנות (Qoh 1:15): On Dialectal Wordplay and Nasal Spreading in the Bible
(Brill, 2021-05-14)Biblical punsters occasionally moved beyond the confines of Standard Biblical Hebrew, producing dialectal wordplay. In a number of cases, the nonstandard form is a phonological variant from another dialect. The best-known ... -
דת and עין: Two verbs masquerading as nouns in Moses' blessing (Deuteronomy 33:2, 28).
(Journal of Biblical Literature, 1996)Irregular spelling is not normally an obstacle to understanding the biblical text. Nevertheless, when the deviant spelling of a rare word coincides with the normal spelling of a common word, exegetes can be misled. I submit ... -
ויצלהו מידם: Proleptic Summaries, Conative Imperfects, and Harmonization in the Joseph Story and Other Biblical Narratives
(Society of Biblical Literature, 2021-12)Despite Rashbam’s solution, a good number of prominent source critics, from the eighteenth century to the present day, have followed Jerome in using the philologically flimsy conative interpretation of ו יַּ צַּלִהֵ וּ to ...
