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Phonology and Morphology of Biblical Hebrew began as an introduction to biblical Hebrew first written 40 years ago. It has now been translated from modern Hebrew, thoroughly revised, and updated; it distills a lifetime of knowledge on the topic. The introduction locates biblical Hebrew in the Semitic family of languages. Blau then discusses methods of categorization and classification, and...

of the broken plural and of the verbal form pāʿala to be shared innovations characterizing Arabic, South Arabian, and Ethiopic and establishing them as a separate subgroup. 1.6.5. The overall structure of the Northwest Semitic branch has been widely discussed. There are no documents in Amorite. This language is entirely reconstructed from names occurring in Akkadian texts that do not fit the structure of Akkadian personal names but instead show Northwest Semitic name formations. At least two different
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