Once Again on Word Order in the War Scroll (1QM)
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Once Again on Word Order in the War Scroll (1QM). / Siegismund, Kasper.
In: Dead Sea Discoveries, Vol. 25, No. 1, 2018, p. 83-106.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Once Again on Word Order in the War Scroll (1QM)
AU - Siegismund, Kasper
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Faculty of Theology
KW - Hebraisk sprog
KW - Qumran
KW - Dødehavsrullerne
KW - Ordstilling
KW - Krigsrullen
KW - 1QM
KW - Hebrew language
KW - Qumran
KW - Dead Sea Scrolls
KW - Word order
KW - War Scroll
KW - 1QM
M3 - Journal article
VL - 25
SP - 83
EP - 106
JO - Dead Sea Discoveries
JF - Dead Sea Discoveries
SN - 0929-0761
IS - 1
ER -
ID: 186150932