Old Testament scholar Benjamin Noonan joins me in this episode to share about his important new book Advances in the Study of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic: New Insights for Reading the Old Testament (Zondervan Academic, 2020).
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About the Book: Advances in the Study of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic by Benjamin J. Noonan offers a much-needed introduction to the issues in the current world of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic scholarship. This book fills a gap in the field of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic linguistics and provides an accessible, comprehensive, up-to-date, and linguistically-informed investigation of our understanding of these languages.
Topics addressed include:
- Linguistics and linguistic theories
- History of scholarship of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic
- Lexical semantics and lexicography
- Verbal stems
- Tense, mood, and aspect in the verbal system
- Discourse analysis
- Register, dialect, style-shifting, and code-switching
- Word order in Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic
- Dating of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic texts
- Teaching and learning Biblical Hebrew
About the Author: Benjamin J. Noonan (PhD, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion) is Associate Professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at Columbia International University. Noonan is the author of Non-Semitic Loanwords in the Hebrew Bible: A Lexicon of Language Contact and the coeditor (with Hélène Dallaire and Jennifer E. Noonan) of of “Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?” A Grammatical Tribute to Professor Stephen A. Kaufman.
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