Text-Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew

by David Allan Dawson

Book Overview

Modern linguistics is a relative newcomer in the scientific world, and text-linguistics, or discourse analysis, is one of its youngest disciplines. This fact has inclined many toward scepticism of its value for the Hebraist, yet much benefit is thereby overlooked. In this work, the author examines recent contributions to Hebrew text-linguistics by Niccacci, Andersen, Eskhult, Khan, and Longacre, evaluating them against a twofold standard of theoretical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0567226859
• ISBN13: 9780567226853
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"