Benjamin Noonan – Advances in the Study of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic

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).

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).

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

Advances in the Study of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic - Benjamin Noonan

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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