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Determining the Significance of Lexical Features as Indicative of CBH and LBH: Insights from the Tiberias Stylistic Classifier for the Hebrew Bible 确定作为CBH和LBH指示的词汇特征的意义:来自提比里亚文体分类器对希伯来圣经的启示

Journal for Semitics Pub Date : 2022-01-27 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6573/9302

Joshua Berman

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The Meaning of Qatal Qatal的含义

Journal for Semitics Pub Date : 2022-01-27 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6573/9299

Kevin Grasso

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A Re-examination of Verb Agreement with Conjoined Subjects in Biblical Hebrew 《圣经》希伯来语连词动词一致性再考

Journal for Semitics Pub Date : 2022-01-26 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6573/9295

Jesse Scheumann

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Defining Collective Nouns: How Cognitive Linguistics Can Help Hebrew Grammarians 定义集合名词：认知语言学如何帮助希伯来语语法学家

Journal for Semitics Pub Date : 2022-01-26 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6573/9288

Dougald W. McLaurin

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Partnership Remembered: Erets Canaan as Co Provider and Co-Enforcer in H 合作记忆:让迦南成为H的共同供应商和共同执行者

Journal for Semitics Pub Date : 2022-01-12 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6573/9070

Esias Meyer

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Unipolar Conceptual Metaphors in Biblical Hebrew 圣经希伯来语中的单极概念隐喻

Journal for Semitics Pub Date : 2022-01-12 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6573/9563

At Lamprecht

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A Love Triangle Between God, Sophia, and the Righteous Interwoven in the Retelling of the Pentateuchal Stories in Wisdom 10 上帝、索菲亚和正义之间的三角恋交织在《智慧》一书中重述的五经故事中

Journal for Semitics Pub Date : 2022-01-12 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6573/9217

Ananda B. Geyser-Fouché

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Leviathan, Rebuffing the Notion of Being Identified as a Natural Animal? 利维坦，拒绝被认定为自然动物的概念?

Journal for Semitics Pub Date : 2022-01-12 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6573/9108

Allan Dyssel

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Curriculum Vitae: Prof. S. W. van Heerden 个人简历:s.w. van Heerden教授

Journal for Semitics Pub Date : 2021-08-16 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6573/9829

W. Wessels

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The Socio-legal Praxis of Leviticus 25 利未记的社会法律实践25

Journal for Semitics Pub Date : 2021-08-02 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6573/9517

N. Sindane

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