The Fundamentals of Hebrew Accents
Divisions and Exegetical Roles beyond Syntax

Provides the fundamental features of the Tiberian Hebrew accents, focusing on their divisions and exegetical roles.

Sung Jin Park (Author)

9781108479936, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 16 July 2020

190 pages
22.2 x 14.5 x 1.5 cm, 0.35 kg

'This book provides a useful introduction to a neglected topic … this resource will help students of the Hebrew text gain an appreciation for the Tiberian accentual system.' Mark D. Futato, Zondervan Academic

This book is designed to serve as a textbook for intermediate Hebrew students and above. Sung Jin Park presents the fundamental features of the Tiberian Hebrew accents, focusing on their divisions and exegetical roles. Providing innovative methods for diagramming biblical texts, the volume explores the two major rules (hierarchy and dichotomy) of disjunctive accents. Students will also attain biblical insights from the exegetical application of the biblical texts that Hebrew syntax alone does not provide. Park's volume shows how the new perspectives on Hebrew accents enhance our understanding of biblical texts.

1. Introduction to Tiberian Hebrew accents
2. Major rules of Hebrew accents
3. Substitutions of disjunctive accents (I)
4. Substitutions of disjunctive accents (II)
5. Conjunctive Accents
6. Minor rules of Hebrew accents
7. The divisions by Hebrew Accents
8. The exegetical roles of the divisions.

Subject Areas: Biblical studies & exegesis [HRCG], Old Testaments [HRCF1], Grammar, syntax & morphology [CFK], Language: history & general works [CBX]