Volume 1: Periods, Corpora, and Reading Traditions; Volume 2:
Selected Texts Biblical Hebrew is studied worldwide by university
students, seminarians, and the educated public. It is also studied,
almost universally, through a single prism-that of the Tiberian
Masoretic tradition, which is the best attested and most widely
available tradition of Biblical Hebrew. Thanks in large part to its
endorsement by Maimonides, it also became the most prestigious
vocalization tradition in the Middle Ages. For most, Biblical
Hebrew is synonymous with Tiberian Biblical Hebrew. There are,
however, other vocalization traditions. The Babylonian tradition
was widespread among Jews around the close of the first millennium
CE; the tenth-century Karaite scholar al-Qirqisani reports that the
Babylonian pronunciation was in use in Babylonia, Iran, the Arabian
peninsula, and Yemen. And despite the fact that Yemenite Jews
continued using Babylonian manuscripts without interruption from
generation to generation, European scholars learned of them only
toward the middle of the nineteenth century. Decades later,
manuscripts pointed with the Palestinian vocalization system were
rediscovered in the Cairo Genizah. Thereafter came the discovery of
manuscripts written according to the Tiberian-Palestinian system
and, perhaps most importantly, the texts found in caves alongside
the Dead Sea. What is still lacking, however, is a comprehensive
and systematic overview of the different periods, sources, and
traditions of Biblical Hebrew. This handbook provides students and
the public with easily accessible, reliable, and current
information in English concerning the multi-faceted nature of
Biblical Hebrew. Noted scholars in each of the various fields
contributed their expertise. The result is the present two-volume
work. The first contains an in-depth introduction to each
tradition; and the second presents sample accompanying texts that
exemplify the descriptions of the parallel introductory chapters.
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