Biblical Hebrew : studies in chronology and typology

Part I: Studies Within the Chronological Framework: Pre-Exilic SBH and Post-Exilic LBH Mats Eskhult - 'The Importance of Loanwords for Dating Biblical Hebrew Texts' Avi Hurvitz - 'Hebrew and Aramaic in the Biblical Period: The Problem of Aramaisms in Linguistic Research on the Hebrew Bible' Frank Polak - 'Style is More than the Person- Sociolinguistics, Literary Culture, and the Distinction Between Written and Oral Narrative' Gary A. Rendsburg - 'Hurvitz Redux: On the Continued Scholarly Inattention to a Simple Principle of Hebrew Philology' Richard M. Wright - 'Further Evidence for North Israelite Contributions to Late Biblical Hebrew' Part II: Challenges to the Chronological Model Philip R. Davies - 'Biblical Hebrew and the History of Ancient Judah: Typology, Chronology and Common Sense' Martin Ehrensvard - 'Linguistic Dating of Biblical Texts' Jacobus A. Naude - 'The Transitions of Biblical Hebrew in the Perspective of Language Change and Diffusion' Robert Rezetko - 'Dating Biblical Hebrew: Evidence from Samuel-Kings and Chronicles' David Talshir - 'The Habitat and History of Hebrew during the Second Temple Period' Ian Young - 'Late Biblical Hebrew and Hebrew Inscriptions' Concluding Reflections