# Diglossia in Ancient Hebrew

“Diglossia in Ancient Hebrew” (2025), by Gary A. Rendsburg. Arts and Humanities research paper. Original abstract below, unchanged. A free PDF is available.

- Authors: Gary A. Rendsburg
- Published: April 30, 2025
- Field: Arts and Humanities
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16050576
- Free PDF: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/16/5/576/pdf?version=1745999396

## 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.

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