Sirach, Scrolls, And Sages: Proceedings Of A Second International Symposium On The Hebrew Of The Dead Sea Scrolls, Ben Sira, And The Mishnah, Held At Leiden University, 15-17 December 1997 (studies Of The Texts Of The Desert Of Judah)

SIRACH, SCROLLS, AND SAGES STUDIES ON THE TEXTS OF THE DESERT OF JUDAH E D I T E D BY F. G A R C I A MARTINEZ A. S. V A N D E R V O L U M E W O U D E XXXIII ' / 6 8 ‫' ל‬ SIRACH, SCROLLS, AND SAGES Proceedings of a Second International Symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Ben Sira, and the Mishnah, held at Leiden 15-17 December iggy E D I T E D BY T. MURAOKA & J.F. ELWOLDE ' 6 8 ‫ ׳‬V BRILL LEIDEN · BOSTON 1999 ‫ ־‬KÖLN University, This book is printed on acid-free paper. Die D e u t s c h e Bibliothek - C I P - E i n h e i t s a u f n a h m e Sirach, scrolls, and s a g e s : proceedings of a Second International Symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Ben Sira and the Mishnah, held at Leiden University, 15-17 December 1997 / ed. by T . Muraoka & J . F. Elwolde. - Leiden ; Boston; Köln : Brill, 1999 (Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah ; Vol. 33) ISBN 90-04-11553-6 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is also available ISSN 0169-9962 ISBN 90 04 11553 6 © Copyright 1999 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Brill provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910 Danvers MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. PRINTED IN T H E NETHERLANDS TABLE O F C O N T E N T S Preface vii J.K. Aitken, The S e m a n t i c s of 'Glory' in Ben Sira—Traces of a D e v e l o p m e n t in Post-Biblical H e b r e w ? 1 M.F.J. Baasten, N o m i n a l C l a u s e s w i t h Locative a n d P o s s e s s i v e Predicates in Q u m r a n H e b r e w 25 P.C. Beentjes, The H e b r e w Texts of Ben Sira 32[35].16-33[36].2 53 M. Ehrensvärd, A n U n u s u a l U s e of the D e f i n i t e Article in Biblical a n d Post-Biblical H e b r e w 68 J.F. E l w o l d e , S o m e Lexical Structures in 1QH: T o w a r d s a Distinction of the Linguistic a n d the Literary 77 S.E. Fassberg, O n Syntax a n d Style in Ben Sira: W o r d Order 117 A. Hurvitz, Further C o m m e n t s o n the Linguistic Profile of Ben Sira: Syntactic Affinities w i t h Late Biblical Hebrew 132 J. Joosten, P s e u d o - C l a s s i c i s m s in Late Biblical H e b r e w , in Ben Sira, a n d in Q u m r a n H e b r e w 146 M. Kister, S o m e N o t e s o n Biblical Expressions a n d A l l u s i o n s and the L e x i c o g r a p h y of Ben Sira 160 T. Muraoka, The Participle in Q u m r a n H e b r e w w i t h Special Reference to its Periphrastic U s e 188 M. Pérez Fernandez, 4 Q M M T : Linguistic A n a l y s i s of Redactional Forms Related to Biblical a n d Rabbinic L a n g u a g e 205 W.T. v a n Peursen, N e g a t i o n in the H e b r e w of Ben Sira 223 vi TABLE OF CONTENTS E. Q i m r o n , T h e D e r i v a t i o n of the N o u n ‫ ת ש מ ח ת‬in the D e a d