A History of the Hebrew Language

includes index and biblioraphy

1 Hebrew in the context of the Semitic languages 1.1 Hebrew, a Semitic language 1.2 The Semitic languages 1.3 Common or Proto-Semitic 1.4 The Hamito-Semitic or Afro-Asiatic group 1.5 Hamito-Semitic and Indo-European 2 Hebrew, a Northwest Semitic language 2.1 The Northwest Semitic languages 2.2 Dialect development and its consequences 3 Pre-exilic Hebrew 3.1The historical unity and development of Hebrew 3.2The origins of Hebrew 3.3The language of archaic biblical poetry 3.4The language of the inscriptions 3.5Pre-exilic Hebrew prose 4 Biblical Hebrew in its various traditions 4.1 The transmission of Biblical Hebrew 4.2 The testimony of the Greek and Latin inscriptions 4.3 Biblical Hebrew according to the Palestinian tradition 4.4 Biblical Hebrew according to the Babylonian tradition 4.5 Biblical Hebrew according to the Tiberian tradition 5 Hebrew in the period of the Second Temple 5.1 Post-exilic Biblical Hebrew 5.2 The language of the Dead Sea Scrolls 5.3 Samaritan Hebrew 6 Rabbinic Hebrew 6.1 Early studies 161 6.2 Origins and classification of Rabbinic Hebrew 166 6.3 New approaches to the study of Rabbinic Hebrew 177 6.4 Orthography, phonetics, and phonology of Rabbinic Hebrew 179 6.5 Morphology of Rabbinic Hebrew 184 6.6 Grammar and vocabulary of Rabbinic Hebrew 195 7 Mediaeval Hebrew 7.1 Historical and geographical background 7.2 The language of the paytanim 7.3 The language of Saadiah Gaon 7.4 The language of the Hebrew poetry of Spain 7.5 The language of the Hebrew prose of Spain 7.6 Mediaeval Hebrew in Italy and central Europe 8 Modern Hebrew 8.1 The period of transition 8.2 The revival of Hebrew 8.3 Israeli Hebrew 8.4 Studies in Israeli Hebrew 8.5 Phonology, morphology, and syntax of Israeli Hebrew