Diglossia in Ancient Hebrew
Department of Jewish Studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
Religions 2025, 16(5), 576; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16050576
Submission received: 19 December 2024
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Revised: 25 March 2025
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Accepted: 26 March 2025
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Published: 30 April 2025
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Jewish Languages: Diglossia in Judaism)
Abstract
The present article summarizes the research assembled in my book Diglossia in Ancient Hebrew (1990), which in turn was based on my doctoral dissertation of a decade earlier, “Evidence for Spoken Hebrew in Biblical Times” (1980). The following linguistic issues are surveyed: gender neutralization (in both verbs and pronouns), the merger of III-ʾ and III-y verbs, the adjectival clause, and the genitive exponent.
Keywords:
Hebrew; Arabic; diglossia; parallel development
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