The Historical Depth of the Tiberian Reading Tradition of Biblical Hebrew

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dc.contributor.authorHornkohl, Aaron D.
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-16T13:52:54Z
dc.date.available2024-05-16T13:52:54Z
dc.date.issued2023-02-06
dc.date.updated2024-05-16T13:52:53Z
dc.descriptionPublication status: ACTIVE
dc.description.abstractThis volume explores an underappreciated feature of the standard Tiberian Masoretic tradition of Biblical Hebrew, namely its composite nature. Focusing on cases of dissonance between the tradition’s written (consonantal) and reading (vocalic) components, the study shows that the Tiberian spelling and pronunciation traditions, though related, interdependent, and largely in harmony, at numerous points reflect distinct oral realisations of the biblical text. Where the extant vocalisation differs from the apparently pre-exilic pronunciation presupposed by the written tradition, the former often exhibits conspicuous affinity with post-exilic linguistic conventions as seen in representative Second Temple material, such as the core Late Biblical Hebrew books, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Ben Sira, rabbinic literature, the Samaritan Pentateuch, and contemporary Aramaic and Syriac material. On the one hand, such instances of written-reading disharmony clearly entail a degree of anachronism in the vocalisation of Classical Biblical Hebrew compositions. On the other, since many of the innovative and secondary features in the Tiberian vocalisation tradition are typical of sources from the Second Temple Period and, in some cases, are documented as minority alternatives in even earlier material, the Masoretic reading tradition is justifiably characterised as a linguistic artefact of profound historical depth.
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dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0310
dc.identifier.isbn9781800649804
dc.identifier.isbn9781800649811
dc.identifier.isbn9781800649828
dc.identifier.othereb3ec30b-4957-45e2-8356-06045f349fa7
dc.identifier.urihttps://thoth-arch.lib.cam.ac.uk/handle/1811/64
dc.languageENG
dc.publisherOpen Book Publishers
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectCFF
dc.subjectHRAX
dc.subjectHRCG
dc.subjectHRCG9
dc.subjectLAN009010
dc.subjectREL006020
dc.subjectREL006630
dc.subjectREL006700
dc.subjectBS718
dc.subjectCambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures
dc.subjectLinguistics
dc.subjectLiterature
dc.subjectHebrew Bible
dc.subjectreading components (vocalic)
dc.subjectstandard Tiberian Masoretic tradition
dc.subjectTiberian pronunciation
dc.subjectTiberian spelling
dc.subjectwritten components (consonantal)
dc.titleThe Historical Depth of the Tiberian Reading Tradition of Biblical Hebrew
dc.typehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2f33
dcterms.accessRightsEmbargo: none
organization.legalNameHebrew University of Jerusalem

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