Table Of ContentGary A. Anderson, How Does Almsgiving Purge Sins?Moshe Bar-Asher, Mistaken Repetitions or Double Readings?Haim Dihi, Linguistic Innovations in Ben Sira Manuscript FMats Eskhult, Relative ha-: A Late Biblical Hebrew Phenomenon?Steven Fassberg, Shifts in Word Order in the Hebrew of the Second Temple PeriodGregor Geiger, Plene Writing of the Qoel Pattern in the Dead Sea ScrollsPierre Van Hecke, Constituent Order in Clauses in the Hebrew of the Dead Sea ScrollsAvi Hurvitz, Terminological Modifications in Biblical Genealogical Records and Their Potential Chronological ImplicationsJan Joosten, Imperative Clauses Containing a Temporal Phrase, and the Study of Diachronic Syntax in Ancient HebrewReinhard Kratz, Laws of Wisdom: Sapiential Traits in the Rule of the Community (1QS 5-7)Noam Mizrahi, Aspects of Poetic Stylization in Second Temple Hebrew: A Linguistic Comparison of the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice with Ancient PiyyuMatthew Morgenstern, The Literary Use of Biblical Language in the Works of the TannaimElisha Qimron, The Third Personal Masculine Plural Pronoun and Pronominal Suffix in Early HebrewJean- Sébastien Rey, On the Prepositional Object with bet in Qumran HebrewUrsula Schattner-Rieser, From the "Foundation" of the Temple to the "Foundation" of a Community: On the Semantic Evolution of *US () in the Dead Sea ScrollsDavid Talshir, Syndetic Binomials in Second Temple Period HebrewEmanuel Tov, Scribal Features of Two Qumran ScrollsAlexey (Eliyahu) Yuditsky, The Non-Construct / in the Dead Sea ScrollsFrancesco Zanella, Between "Righteousness" and "Alms": A Semantic Study of the Lexeme in the Dead Sea ScrollsTamar Zewi, Content Clauses in the Dead Sea Scrolls
SynopsisThe Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the book of Ben Sira can be properly understood only in the light of all contemporary Second Temple period sources. With this in mind, 20 experts from Israel, Europe, and the United States convened in Jerusalem in December 2008. These proceedings of the Twelfth Orion Symposium and Fifth International Symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ben Sira examine the Hebrew of the Second Temple period as reflected primarily in the Dead Sea Scrolls, the book of Ben Sira, Late Biblical Hebrew, and Mishnaic Hebrew. Additional contemporaneous sources--inscriptions, Greek and Latin transcriptions, and the Samaritan oral and reading traditions of the Pentateuch--are also noted., This volume offers a multi-disciplinary examination into the Hebrew of the Second Temple period as reflected in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Ben Sira, inscriptions, Greek and Latin transcriptions, the Samaritan oral and reading traditions of the Pentateuch, and Mishnaic Hebrew.