INTRODUCTION

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. TABLE OF CONTENTS vii
3. INTRODUCTION ix
4. ABBREVIATIONS xv
5. SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS: PATTERNS AND MEANINGS OF THE BIBLICAL HEBREW VERB שׂ 1
6. DEPENDENCY RELATIONS IN BIBLICAL HEBREW GRAMMAR1 31
7. ARAMAIC VERBAL PARTICIPLES AS AN ASSOCIATIVE DEVICE IN THE NARRATIVE OF DANIEL 2:4b–7:28 49
8. THE THRONE VISION IN DANIEL 7:9–10 IN THE OLD GREEK VERSION 61
9. THE PERFECT INDICATIVE AS A RHETORICAL DEVICE IN NEW TESTAMENT GREEK 93
10. “THE WORD WILL NOT WAIT”: SPECIALIZED VOCABULARY IN SYRIAC DIVINATORY TEXTS (HERMENEIAI) 117
11. BIBLICAL CORRESPONDENCES TO SYRIAC MEKKĒL 133
12. Q^ETAL (H)WĀ FOR THE GREEK CONJUNCT PARTICIPLE 141
13. THE RHETORICAL PLACE OF CONJUNCTIONS AND CONJUNCTIVE ADVERBS IN THE LITERARY LANDSCAPE OF CLASSICAL SYRIAC 153
14. THE CLASSICAL SYRIAC PARTICLE : A SYNTACTIC AND SEMANTIC ANALYSIS 165
15. NEW READINGS OF THE PESHITTA TEXT OF REVELATION 211
16. BRIDGING ANCIENT TEXTS AND MODERN LINGUISTICS: A SYNTAX OF SYRIAC OBJECTS IN CONTRAST TO HEBREW AND ARABIC 219
17. REFLECTIONS ON THE SYRIAC PSALTER IN LIGHT OF THE ANTIOCH BIBLE PROJECT 255
18. INDEX OF BIBLICAL REFERENCES 271