“Diglossia in Ancient Hebrew” (2025), by Gary A. Rendsburg. Arts and Humanities research paper. Original abstract below, unchanged. A free PDF is available.
Diglossia in Ancient Hebrew
Gary A. Rendsburg · April 30, 2025 · Arts and Humanities
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.
Free PDF DOI: 10.3390/rel16050576
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