Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2012. — 546 p. — (Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic. Vol 8). — ISBN: 978-1-57506-253-2.
After almost three centuries of modern study of the Hebrew Bible, it is clear that internal analysis of the text cannot convincingly disclose the periods of composition of the components that were finally redacted into the text that has come down to us.
Abbreviations.
Introduction.
Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives on Diachrony.
Examining Diachrony in Biblical Hebrew.
Morphological Features.
Syntactic Features.
Lexical Features.
Sociological and Dialectal Considerations.
Text-Critical Considerations.
Comparative Semitic Perspectives on Diachrony.
Afterword.
Indexes.