The Linguistic Dating of the Joseph Story
Establishing a probable date for the Joseph story has proven difficult, and until the present day widely divergent temporal horizons continue to be proposed. An approach based on historical linguistics promises to narrow down the window of probability. Like all human languages, Biblical Hebrew chang...
| Published in: | Hebrew bible and ancient Israel |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
Mohr Siebeck
[2019]
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| In: |
Hebrew bible and ancient Israel
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Joseph Patriarch
/ Hebrew language
/ Linguistics
/ Oral tradition
/ Literature
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament HD Early Judaism |
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| Summary: | Establishing a probable date for the Joseph story has proven difficult, and until the present day widely divergent temporal horizons continue to be proposed. An approach based on historical linguistics promises to narrow down the window of probability. Like all human languages, Biblical Hebrew changed over time in ways that can be tracked and recorded. The present paper proposes a detailed analysis of the language of the Joseph story in diachronic perspective. |
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| ISSN: | 2192-2284 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Hebrew bible and ancient Israel
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1628/hebai-2019-0004 |