Word Order Reading List

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Jason Hare
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Word Order Reading List

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So, I offered in another thread to put together a short reading list / bibliography on the discussion of biblical Hebrew word order. I’m using this thread to accomplish that and will the other thread here for continuation. After all, the question of word order comprises a wide argument among perfectly competent scholars of the biblical languages, who come down on different positions with regard to the natural (unmarked) syntactic order in biblical Hebrew (and also Koinē Greek).

The following was basically taken from Robert D. Holmstedt’s blogpost discussing word order in the biblical languages and addressing Moshavi’s writings on the topic.

Chronological Bibliography Heimerdinger, Jean-Marc. 1999. Topic, Focus and Foreground in Ancient Hebrew Narratives. JSOTSupp 295. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press. Moshavi, Adina. 2000. The Pragmatics of Word Order in Biblical Hebrew: A Statistical Analysis. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Yeshiva University, New York. Holmstedt, Robert D. 2002. The Relative Clause in Biblical Hebrew: A Linguistic Analysis. Dissertation, Hebrew and Semitic Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisc. Shimasaki, Katsuomi. 2002. Focus Structure in Biblical Hebrew: A Study of Word Order and Information Structure. Bethesda, MD: CDL Press. Holmstedt, Robert D. 2003. Adjusting Our Focus (review of Katsuomi Shimasaki, Focus Structure in Biblical Hebrew: A Study of Word Order and Information Structure). Hebrew Studies 44:203-15. Holmstedt, Robert D. 2005. Word Order in the Book of Proverbs. Pp. 135-54 in Seeking Out the Wisdom of the Ancients: Essays Offered to Honor Michael V. Fox on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday, ed. R. L. Troxel, K. G. Friebel and D. R. Magary. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns. Lunn, Nicholas P. 2006. Word-Order Variation in Biblical Hebrew Poetry: Differentiating Pragmatics and Poetics, with Foreward by Jean-Marc Heimerdinger. Paternoster Biblical Monographs. Bletchley: Paternoster. Holmstedt, Robert D. 2009a. Word Order and Information Structure in Ruth and Jonah: A Generative-Typological Analysis. Journal of Semitic Studies 54 (1):111-39. Holmstedt, Robert D. 2009b. Review of Word-Order Variation in Biblical Hebrew Poetry: Differentiating Pragmatics and Poetics, with Foreword by Jean-Marc Heimerdinger by Nicholas P. Lunn. Journal of Semitic Studies 54 (1):305-07. Moshavi, Adina. 2010. Word Order in the Biblical Hebrew Finite Clause. LSAWS 4. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.

I’ll add a few more to this, but this will get you started!
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Thanks, Jason. This very helpful and good start on a bibliography on this important subject.
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Jason, in case you don't have it, here's one by BO Isaakson presented at SBL in 2015 (rec'd notification from Academia.edu):
https://tinyurl.com/2p8c47x7
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