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Unlike earlier investigations on the changes Biblical Hebrew underwent over the ages, this study does not attempt to draw a broad picture encompassing various kinds of linguistic phenomena. The work stresses the need for a well-founded statistical and form-oriented methodology for the description of historical linguistic change in the Hebrew Bible. With the aid of computer techniques the book concentrates on one major aspect of Biblical Hebrew, viz. the verbal tense forms. It examines the absolute and relative frequencies of these data in the books of Samuel, Kings and Chronicles in a comprehensive manner. In this way some of the established opinions concerning increase or decrease in the use of certain tense forms are confirmed, others contradicted, and new evidence is adduced. In addition to the statistical analyses, Verbs andamp; Numbers contains a complete inventory of the parallel passages where Chronicles has another tense form than the Vorlage. This makes it a valuable source of information for the interpretation of the book of Chronicles.

Hebrew language --- Tense --- Word frequency --- Bible --- Criticism, Textual --- 809.24 --- 222.6 --- 222.7 --- 221.02*1 --- Hebreeuws. Hebreeuwse taalkunde --- Samuelboeken. Boeken der koningen. David. Salomon. Elia. Elisa. Josias --- Kronieken. Ezra. Nehemia --- Oud Testament: bijbelse filologie: hebreeuws --- Theses --- Tense. --- Word frequency. --- 221.02*1 Oud Testament: bijbelse filologie: hebreeuws --- 809.24 Hebreeuws. Hebreeuwse taalkunde --- Jewish language --- Jews --- Semitic languages, Northwest --- Languages --- Bible. --- Samuel (Book of the Old Testament) --- Shemuʼel (Book of the Old Testament) --- Kings (Books of the Old Testament) --- Koenige (Books of the Old Testament) --- Könige (Books of the Old Testament) --- Königsbücher (Book of the Old Testament) --- Koningen (Book of the Old Testament) --- Melakhim (Books of the Old Testament) --- Chronicles (Book of the Old Testament) --- Divre ha-yamim (Book of the Old Testament) --- Paralipomenon (Book of the Old Testament) --- Yŏktae kisŏ (Book of the Old Testament) --- Yŏktaegi (Book of the Old Testament) --- Chronikbuch (Book of the Old Testament) --- Criticism, Textual. --- Hebrew language - Tense --- Hebrew language - Word frequency