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The Ancient Egyptian Conception of God: From the Predynastic Through the Old Kingdom (ca. 3800–2135 B.C.E.) 古埃及人的上帝观:从前王朝到古王国(约公元前3800-2135年)
Journal for Semitics Pub Date : 2020-12-08 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6573/7244
Leival Richards
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Counting and Weighing: On the Role of Intuition in Philology and Linguistics 计数与权衡：论直觉在语言学和语言学中的作用
Journal for Semitics Pub Date : 2020-12-08 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6573/8180
M. Ehrensvärd, R. Rezetko, I. Young
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Decolonising the Reading of Psalm 8 in an African (Yoruba) Context. 在非洲（约鲁巴语）背景下对诗篇8的非殖民化阅读。
Journal for Semitics Pub Date : 2020-11-03 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6573/7613
D. Adamo
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Linguistics, Philology, and the Role of Theory 语言学、语言学与理论的作用
Journal for Semitics Pub Date : 2020-11-03 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6573/8047
Robert D. Holmstedt
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The Biblical Hebrew Beth Essentiae: Predicate Marker 圣经希伯来文Beth Essentiae：谓词标记
Journal for Semitics Pub Date : 2020-11-03 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6573/8019
Jacques Boulet
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引用次数: 2
“Blessed Are the Killers of Infants”—Understanding the Imprecation of Psalm 137 in Light of the Canonical Contexts of the Major Prophets “杀害婴儿的人有福了”——从主要先知的典型语境看《诗篇》第137篇的印象
Journal for Semitics Pub Date : 2020-10-29 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6573/7823
Ryu Park
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A Hermeneutic of Variation? The Orthographic Variability of the Hebrew Bible and the Larger Dead Sea Scrolls 变异的解释学?希伯来圣经和更大的死海古卷的正字法差异
Journal for Semitics Pub Date : 2020-10-29 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6573/6633
J. D. de Joode, D. Speelman
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Finding Missing Objects in Biblical Hebrew (with an Appendix on Missing Subjects) 寻找圣经希伯来语中丢失的物体(附关于丢失主题的附录)
Journal for Semitics Pub Date : 2020-09-30 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6573/7859
J. Cook
{"title":"Finding Missing Objects in Biblical Hebrew (with an Appendix on Missing Subjects)","authors":"J. Cook","doi":"10.25159/2663-6573/7859","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25159/2663-6573/7859","url":null,"abstract":"Missing object complements are significant for the grammar and the lexicon. An explanation is called for of their syntactic status, the basis for their “recovery” or interpretation in discourse, constrictions on what type of objects may be missing, and their information-structure status in the context of object marking more generally. In this essay I present a taxonomy of missing complements in Biblical Hebrew from the perspective of information structure, focusing especially on the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic bases of their interpretation in the discourse. In an appendix I briefly explore the applicability of this taxonomy of missing objects to explain the interpretation of missing subjects in Biblical Hebrew discourse.","PeriodicalId":42047,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Semitics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41841393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The Contribution of Papyrus Ashmolean Museum 1945.96 (Adoption Papyrus) to our Understanding of the Ancient Egyptian “Testamentary Disposition” and Succession Law 阿什莫林纸莎草博物馆(1945.96)对我们理解古埃及“遗嘱处分”和继承法的贡献
Journal for Semitics Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6573/7445
Nicolaas J van Blerk
{"title":"The Contribution of Papyrus Ashmolean Museum 1945.96 (Adoption Papyrus) to our Understanding of the Ancient Egyptian “Testamentary Disposition” and Succession Law","authors":"Nicolaas J van Blerk","doi":"10.25159/2663-6573/7445","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25159/2663-6573/7445","url":null,"abstract":"This article will focus on the importance of the New Kingdom Papyrus Ashmolean Museum 1945.96 (Adoption Papyrus). The research question is whether this papyrus assists us in a better understanding of the ancient Egyptian testamentary disposition. The aim is to identify and discuss concepts and elements pertaining to succession law in general, but in particular testamentary dispositions. A problem when studying any ancient text is to keep in mind that one can never enforce modern concepts onto these ancient texts. However, these ancient texts might contain building blocks of later concepts; in particular, the Adoption Papyrus may give us valuable information regarding these early concepts and elements of succession law and in the process indicate that the building blocks of succession law are much older than Roman law. The methodology used is a textual approach analysing the Adoption Papyrus in order to attempt identifying legal concepts and elements of succession law. With my background as lawyer and Egyptologist, it appears to me that there are several identifiable elements and concepts of testamentary dispositions and succession law evident in the Adoption Papyrus. With my multi-disciplinary approach to this study, I endeavour to indicate that the first building blocks of the testamentary disposition and succession law can be found in these ancient New Kingdom texts, long before Roman law was developed.","PeriodicalId":42047,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Semitics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42672705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Applying Communicative Language Teaching Principles to Biblical Hebrew Instruction 交际语言教学原则在圣经希伯来语教学中的应用
Journal for Semitics Pub Date : 2020-07-30 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6573/6885
L. Lemmer
{"title":"Applying Communicative Language Teaching Principles to Biblical Hebrew Instruction","authors":"L. Lemmer","doi":"10.25159/2663-6573/6885","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25159/2663-6573/6885","url":null,"abstract":"Biblical Hebrew (BH) has traditionally been taught using the so-called “grammar-translation” method. This method, however, has been shown to be ineffective in bringing most students to spoken or reading fluency. Communicative language teaching (CLT) has been the dominant teaching method of modern languages since the 1980s. In modern language teaching, spoken fluency is the primary goal of the language teaching. The goal of most students studying BH, however, is not spoken fluency, but reading with comprehension. The thesis of this article is threefold: 1) that CLT can be used to help students reach their goal of reading with comprehension, 2) that it can be implemented with success in a first-year classroom, and 3) that students find it more effective and enjoyable than the grammar-translation method. After a brief overview of the history of language teaching, the first part of the body of the article substantiates the claim that CLT is effective in helping students read with comprehension and not just speaking fluently. The second part shows how CLT can be implemented in a first-year classroom. The various techniques that we use in our curriculum are described in some theoretical detail, after which their application in the curriculum is described. Finally, we consider some feedback that we have received from students.","PeriodicalId":42047,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Semitics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42166985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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