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2009

Near Eastern Languages and Societies

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Elementary Hebrew I, Howard Ervin, Cheryl Iverson, Marlene Mankins Dec 2009

Elementary Hebrew I, Howard Ervin, Cheryl Iverson, Marlene Mankins

College of Theology and Ministry Faculty Research and Scholarship

It is the object of this course to provide the student with a basic knowledge of classical Hebrew. It is a practical concern of the instruction to provide the fundamental skills to enable the student to read and interpret the Hebrew text of the Old Testament for teaching and sermonic purposes.

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Grammar In The Classroom: The Case Of Israeli Hebrew, Shmuel Bolozky Jan 2009

Grammar In The Classroom: The Case Of Israeli Hebrew, Shmuel Bolozky

Shmuel Bolozky

No abstract provided.

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Introduction: The Private Life Of Public Conveniences, Olga Gershenson Jan 2009

Introduction: The Private Life Of Public Conveniences, Olga Gershenson

Olga Gershenson

No abstract provided.

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He`Ara `Al Gamar Vesiyem Ba`Ivrit Hayisre’Elit (A Comment On Gamar And Siyem In Israeli Hebrew), Shmuel Bolozky Dec 2008

He`Ara `Al Gamar Vesiyem Ba`Ivrit Hayisre’Elit (A Comment On Gamar And Siyem In Israeli Hebrew), Shmuel Bolozky

Shmuel Bolozky

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Accented Past: Russian Immigrants In Israeli Film, Olga Gershenson Dec 2008

Accented Past: Russian Immigrants In Israeli Film, Olga Gershenson

Olga Gershenson, PhD

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Colloquial Hebrew Imperatives Revisited, Shmuel Bolozky Dec 2008

Colloquial Hebrew Imperatives Revisited, Shmuel Bolozky

Shmuel Bolozky

In revisiting Bolozky's [Bolozky, Shmuel, 1979. "On the new imperative in colloquial Hebrew." "Hebrew Annual Review" 3, 17-24] and Bat-El's [Bat-El, Outi, 2002. "True truncation in colloquial Hebrew imperatives." "Language" 78(4), 651-683] analyses of colloquial Hebrew imperatives, the article argues for restricting Imperative Truncation to the morphologically-triggered process of #tV prefix elision (or even to just #t prefixes). Elision of "e" and "i" in imperatives is claimed to be effected by the general, phonetically-motivated elision of the same vowels in casual speech. The prominence and sonority of the vowel a protects it from elision in imperatives, and short forms like …

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