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- Flying into the Trap: Syntactic Irony in Proverbs 7:23
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- “And the Fish Died and the Nile Stank”: A Hebrew Lesson from Egypt’s First Plague
- The Subtle Grammar of Possession in Biblical Hebrew
- Syntax and Strategy: Analyzing Poetic Combat Syntax in Judges 7:20
- Exceeding Might: When the Waters Conquered Syntax and Summit
- Sound and Fury: The Syntax and Strategy in Judges 7:18
- The Seductive Scents of Syntax: A Close Reading of Proverbs 7:17
- Too Righteous, Too Wise: The Binyanim of Overreach in Ecclesiastes 7:16
- “Two by Two, Breath of Life”: Pairing and Presence in the LXX Translation of Genesis 7:15
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The Hebrew character in used at the present day, and in which the oldest existing manuscripts of the Bible are found written, is not only the same that was employed at the time of Jerome, viz. in the fourth century and fifth centuries after Christ, but is even spoken of in the Talmud, and still earlier in the Mishna, by the name of כתב אשׁוּרית Assyrian writing, as consisting of the Assyrian or the Aramaean letters which they affirmed to have been brought by Ezra from Assyria on the returning with his fellow-exiles from the Babylonian captivity.… Learn Hebrew