Some Uses of Deixis in Rabbinic Hebrew

I put forth two main arguments in the present study. First, that an adequate understanding of a number of Rabbinic Hebrew passages originating in Roman Palestine depends on a fuller appreciation of their employment of proximate and distant deixis. Interestingly, already the rabbinic scholars of Baby...

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Published in:Journal of Semitic studies
Main Author: Yadin-Israel, Azzan (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press [2015]
In: Journal of Semitic studies
RelBib Classification:BH Judaism
HB Old Testament
HD Early Judaism
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Summary:I put forth two main arguments in the present study. First, that an adequate understanding of a number of Rabbinic Hebrew passages originating in Roman Palestine depends on a fuller appreciation of their employment of proximate and distant deixis. Interestingly, already the rabbinic scholars of Babylonia fail to recognize the distinction between proximate and distant deixis. Thus, the second argument, that though this distinction is known in Biblical Hebrew, its preservation among Palestinian rabbis is due to its vitality in Greek and so counts as contact-induced maintenance.
ISSN:1477-8556
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of Semitic studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/jss/fgv003