Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface Or, Why Did We Write This Book? ix
4. Abbreviations xiii
5. 1. All Things Change: Language and Method 1
6. 2. Kinds and Causes of Linguistic Change 11
7. 3. How to Handle Linguistic Variation 31
8. 4. Textual History and Linguistic History 47
9. 5. Inscriptions and Preexilic Hebrew Literature 60
10. 6. Transitional Biblical Hebrew 73
11. 7. Pseudoclassicism: Late Biblical Hebrew and Qumran Hebrew 85
12. 8. Consilience and Cultural History: The Ages of Biblical Literature 98
13. Appendix 1. Historical Linguistics and the Books of the Hebrew Bible: A Bibliographical Survey 127
14. Appendix 2. A Critique of the Revisionist Model 135
15. Notes 145
16. Bibliography 181
17. Index of Scripture and Other Ancient Sources 201
18. Index of Authors 210
19. Index of Subjects 215
20. Index of Words and Expressions 218