ORION CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF THE
DEAD SEA SCROLLS
ELIEZER BEN-YEHUDA CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF THE
HISTORY OF THE HEBREW LANGUAGE
Hebrew in the Second Temple Period:
The Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls and of
Other Contemporary Sources
DECEMBER 29–31, 2008
MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2008
Beit Maiersdorf, Room 501
16:30
Registration (4th Floor Lobby)
17:30
Greetings
Israel Bartal, Dean, Faculty of Humanities
Steven Fassberg, Director, Orion Center and
the Eliezer Ben-Yehuda Center
Presentation of
‫ ספר אבי הורביץ‬:‫יב‬-‫מחקרים בלשון יא‬
18:00
12:30
Lunch Break
Session III: Chair, Abraham Tal
14:00
Alexey Yuditsky, Ben-Gurion University:
“Non-Construct ‫הכל‬/‫ כל‬in the Dead Sea
Scrolls”
14:30
Gregor Geiger, Hebrew University:
“Complements of Participles in the Dead Sea
Scrolls”
15:00
Jan Joosten, Université Marc Bloch
(Strasbourg):
“A Chapter of Diachronic Syntax in Ancient
Hebrew: The Combination of Volitive Verbal
Forms with a Temporal Phrase”
Language Studies XI–XII: Avi Hurvitz Festschrift
15:30
Opening Lecture
Moshe Bar-Asher, Hebrew University:
“On the Language of the Vision of Gabriel”
Session IV: Chair, Takamitsu Muraoka
16:00
Pierre van Hecke, Katholieke Universiteit
Leuven:
“Constituent Order in Nominal Clauses with
the Copula ‫ היה‬in Qumran Hebrew”
16:30
Tamar Zewi, University of Haifa:
“Content Clauses in the Dead Sea Scrolls”
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2008
Rabin Building, Room 2001
Session I: Chair, Esther Chazon
9:00
Emanuel Tov, Hebrew University:
“Scribal Features of Two Qumran Scrolls”
9:30
Ingo Kottsieper, Akademie der Wissenschaften zu
Göttingen:
“The t-Prefix in Hebrew Documentary Texts of
the Second Temple Period: Thoughts about Its
Linguistic Background and Significance”
10:00
Mats Eskhult, Uppsala Universitet:
“Relative ha-: A LBH Phenomenon?”
10:30
Session II: Chair, Yochanan Breuer
11:00
Elisha Qimron, Ben-Gurion University:
“The 3rd Personal Masculine Plural Pronouns in
Early Hebrew”
11: 30 Matthew Morgenstern, University of Haifa:
“The Literary Use of Biblical Hebrew in PostBiblical Hebrew Works”
12:00
Annette Steudel, Akademie der Wissenschaften zu
Göttingen:
“Developments in the Terminology of the
Qumran Community”
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
____________________________________________
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2008
Rabin Building, Room 2001
Session V: Chair, Ofra Tirosh-Becker
9:00
Steven Fassberg, Hebrew University:
“Shifts in Word Order in the Hebrew of the Second
Temple Period”
9:30
Jean-Sébastien Rey, Université Paul Verlaine
(Metz):
“On the Prepositional Object with bet in Late
Biblical Hebrew”
10:00
Ursula Schattner-Rieser, Institut Catholique de
Paris:
“From ‘Foundation’ to ‘Foundation’: On the
Semantic Development of ‫ אוש‬in the Dead Sea
Scrolls”
10:30
Coffee Break
Session VI: Chair, Frank Polak
11:00
Menahem Kister, Hebrew University:
“The Meaning of the Root ‫ נד"ב‬and Its Derived
Forms in the Dead Sea Scrolls”
11:30
Francesco Zanella, Universität Bonn, ThWQ
Project:
“Between ‘Righteousness’ and ‘Alms’: A
Semantic Study of the Lexeme ‫ צדקה‬in the
Dead Sea Scrolls”
12:00
Gary Anderson, Notre Dame University:
“Some Further Thoughts on Kutscher’s
Observations about Words for Purification and
Cleansing in Second Temple Hebrew”
12:30
Lunch Break
Session VII: Chair, Shalom Paul
14:00
Haim Dihi, Ben-Gurion University:
“‫ואל תקמיעהו בנגשה‬: Linguistic Innovations in
MS F of Ben Sira”
14:30
Avi Hurvitz, Hebrew University:
“Terminological Modifications in the Biblical
Genealogical Records and Their Potential
Chronological Implications”
15:00
David Talshir, Ben-Gurion University:
“Second Temple Period Hebrew Mirrored in
Phrases Peculiar to Late Biblical Hebrew and
to Qumran Hebrew”
15:30
Coffee Break
Session VIII: Chair, Michael Stone
16:00
Reinhard Kratz, Georg-August-Universität
(Göttingen):
“Laws of Wisdom: Sapiential Traits in the Rule
of the Community (1QS V–IX)”
16:30
Noam Mizrahi, Hebrew University:
“Aspects of Poetic Stylization in Second
Temple Hebrew: A Comparison of the Songs
of the Sabbath Sacrifice with Ancient Piyyut”
17:00
Concluding Remarks: Moshe Bar-Asher
Mandel Institute for Jewish Studies
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and Associated Literature
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AND
The Eliezer Ben-Yehuda Center
for the Study of the History of the Hebrew
Language
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Phone:
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Fax:
(02) 588–3584
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Acknowledgements:
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Orion Foundation Ltd.
The Sir Zelman Cowen Universities Fund
The Eliezer Ben-Yehuda Center for the Study
of the History of the Hebrew Language
THE TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL ORION
SYMPOSIUM:
Hebrew in the Second Temple
Period: The Hebrew of the Dead Sea
Scrolls and of Other Contemporary
Sources
29–31 December 2008
Beit Maiersdorf Faculty Club, Room 501
Rabin World Center for Jewish Studies, Room 2001
The Hebrew University, Mount Scopus