> a conference on Qumran Hebrew held in October 1999 at Ben Gurion > University, Beer Sheva, during which Qimron, Hurvitz, Blau and others > addressed your question. a volume of proceedings appeared last year > published by Brill > that's
Diggers at the well : proceedings of the third International Symposium of the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ben Sira. Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah ; 36 / ed. by T. Muraoka and J. F. Elwolde, Leiden : E.J. Brill , 2000 there are two previous volumes: The Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ben Sira : proceedings of a symposium held at Leiden University 11-14 December 1995 / ed. by T. Muraoka and J. F. Elwolde. - Leiden : E.J. Brill, 1997 (Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah ; 26) Takamitsu Muraoka and John Elwolde (eds.), Sirach, Scrolls and Sages. Proceedings of a Second International Symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Ben Sira and the Mishnah, held at Leiden University,15-17 December 1997 (STDJ 33), Leiden: Brill, 1999 Apart from that, here's my limited contribution. I'm not saying it all touches equally directly on Ross' inquiry -- nor that I agree with all of it or even have understood all of it :-) I'm much interested in hearing what others have to add - and thanks, Ross, for raising the question regards Soren, Copenhagen ------------ Abegg, M.C., Jr., 'The Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls', in F.W. Flint and J.C. Vanderkam (eds.), The Dead Sea Scrolls after Fifty Years. A Comprehensive Assessment (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1998), pp. 325-58 Margain, J., 'L'hébreu à Qoumrân', in E.-M. Laperrousaz, ed., Qoumrân et les Manuscrits de la mer Morte. Un cinquantenaire (Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf 1997), pp. 159-73 Morag, S., 'Qumran Hebrew: Some Typological Observations', VT 38 (1988), pp. 148-64 Muraoka, T., 'The Participle in Qumran Hebrew with special Reference to its Periphrastic Use', in , Sirach, Scrolls and Sages, pp. 188-204 Also an entry by professor Muraoka in the wonderful "Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls", Oxford: OUP 2000, don't have the exact reference here Naudé, J.A., 'Towards a Typology of Qumran Hebrew', JNWSL 20/2 (1994), pp. 61-78 Qimron, E., 'Observations on the History of Early Hebrew (1000 B.C.E.-200 C.E.) in the Light of the Dead Sea Documents', in D. Dimant and U. Rappaport, eds., The Dead Sea Scrolls. Forty years of research (Leiden: E.J. Brill/Jerusalem: Magnes a.o., 1992), pp. 349-61 Schniedewind, William M., 'Qumran Hebrew as an Antilanguage', JBL 118 (1999), pp. 235-52 Smith, Mark, 'Grammatically Speaking: The Participle as a Main Verb of Clauses (Predicative Participle) in Direct Discourse and NArrative in pre-Mishnaic Hebrew', in Sirach, Scrolls and Sages, pp. 278-332 For private reply, e-mail to =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Holst?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from Orion, e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: "unsubscribe Orion." Archives are on the Orion Web site, http://orion.mscc.huji.ac.il. (PLEASE REMOVE THIS TRAILOR BEFORE REPLYING TO THE MESSAGE)
