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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...

This is the most ancient layer of Canaanite known to us, spoken nearly on the eve of the invasion of the Israelite tribes. W. L. Moran (1950, 2003) has unearthed several facts that show various features of Hebrew and Phoenician in a new light, and A. F. Rainey (1996) has recently summarized the state of our understanding. 1.7.1. The family-tree model of Semitic is not without difficulties. According to it, one would expect languages appearing on two remote branches to
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