Once Again on Word Order in the War Scroll (1QM)

This contribution offers a critical evaluation of John Screnock’s hypothesis that the basic word order in 1QM is subject-verb, with inversion triggered by fronting of non-subject elements or by the use of intransitive verbs. After a detailed examination of the evidence, the opposite conclusion is re...

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主要作者: Siegismund, Kasper (Author)
其他作者: Screnock, John 1984- (Bibliographic antecedent)
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語言:English
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出版: Brill 2018
In: Dead Sea discoveries
Year: 2018, 卷: 25, 發布: 1, Pages: 83-106
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Kriegsrolle (Qumrantexte) / 希伯來語 / 詞序
IxTheo Classification:HD Early Judaism
Further subjects:B War Scroll Qumran Hebrew Hebrew syntax Hebrew word order 1QM 1:1–3
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總結:This contribution offers a critical evaluation of John Screnock’s hypothesis that the basic word order in 1QM is subject-verb, with inversion triggered by fronting of non-subject elements or by the use of intransitive verbs. After a detailed examination of the evidence, the opposite conclusion is reached. Basic word order is verb-subject, with inversion to subject-verb order with pragmatically marked subjects (focus fronting). There seems to be no causal relationship between transitivity and word order. Furthermore, it is argued that Screnock’s interpretation of 1QM 1:1–3 (which flows from his transitivity-based analysis) is highly unlikely, as it leads to a division of sentences that would produce a structure practically unattested in the rest of the text. In addition, the findings are applied to the general discussion of word order in Hebrew, in particular as an argument against recent attempts at describing Biblical Hebrew as a language with basic subject-verb order.
ISSN:1568-5179
Reference:Kritik von "Word order in the War Scroll (1QM) and its implications for interpretation (2011)"
Contains:Enthalten in: Dead Sea discoveries
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15685179-12341452