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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...

Chronicles in contrast with Kings and in the readings exhibited by “vulgar” Qumran biblical texts. 1.2.5. Such alteration stopped at some point, generally set in the Hellenistic-Roman period. (The assessment of the history of the biblical text, and thus the place of the Samaritan Pentateuch and the “vulgar” Qumran biblical texts, is beyond the scope of this book.) By the time of the Masoretic manuscripts (10th c. C.E. and later) the process was long over. The discrepancies among these manuscripts
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