The Verbal System of Biblical Hebrew

J. Joosten, The Verbal System of Biblical Hebrew

A New Synthesis Elaborated on the Basis of Classical Prose,
Simor, Jerusalem 2012, 525 pp. hard cover 

             Table of Contents

Part One: Forms and Functions

Chapter I -  Preliminaries

Chapter II - The verbal paradigm

Chapter III - Varying verbal meanings

Chapter IV - Inter-clausal relations

Part Two: Verbal Usage

Chapter V - WAYYIQTOL

Chapter VI - QATAL

Chapter VII - The predicative participle

Chapter VIII - YIQTOL and WEQATAL

Chapter IX - The volitives

Part Three: Perspectives and Open Questions

Chapter X - Verbal forms in textual perspective      

Chapter XI - Developments in Late Biblical Hebrew        

Chapter XII - Verbal usage in poetry

Bibliography

Index of biblical references

Detailed table of contents

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Professor Jan Joosten
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