The Verbal System in the Hebrew Text of Ben Sira (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics) Hardcover – 2003

by Wido Th Peursen (Author)

This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the verbal system in the extant Hebrew witnesses of Ben Sira. It is an important contribution both to Ben Sira studies and to the debate about the tenses in Classical Hebrew.

Willem Th. van Peursen, Ph.D. (1999), Leiden University, is post-doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Theology, Leiden University. He has published on Ben Sira, Classical Hebrew and Syriac, and is co-editor of the Concordance to the Peshitta (in progress).

Series: Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics (Book 41)