Robert L. Bergen, Biblical Hebrew and Discourse Linguistics, SIL International, 1994.

Table of Contents

  Foreword 7
  Preface 9
1 Discourse Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew Grammar 13
2 Weqatal Forms in Biblical Hebrew Prose 50
3 Salience, Implicature, Ambiguity, and Redundancy in Clause-Clause Relationships in Biblical Hebrew 99
4 On the Hebrew Verbal System 117
5 Methodological Collision between Source Criticism and Discourse Analysis 138
6 A Discourse Perspective on the Significance of the Masoretic Accents 155
7 Analysis of Biblical Narrative 175
8 Introducing Direct Discourse in Biblical Hebrew Narrative 199
9 Genealogical Prominence and the Structure of Genesis 242
10 Some Literary and Grammatical Aspects of Genealogies in Genesis 267
11 Is Genesis 27:46 P or J? And How the Answer Affects Translation 283
12 The Miraculous Grammar of Joshua 3-4 300
13 Evil Spirits and Eccentric Grammar 320
14 A Textlinguistic Approach to the Biblical Hebrew Narrative of Jonah 336
15 Functions and Implications of Rhetorical Questions in the Book of Job 361
16 Genre Criticism and the Psalms 374
17 Genre and Form Criticism in Old Testament Exegesis 415
18 Hebrew Proverbs and How to Translate Them 434
19 Units and Flow in the Song of Songs 1:1-2:6 462
20 Some Discourse Functions of Prophetic Quotation Formulas in Jeremiah 489
21 The Poetic Properties of Prophetic Discourse in the Book of Micah 520
22 Vision and Oracle in Zechariah 1-6 529