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Verbs and War Scroll: Studies in the Hebrew Verbal System and the Qumran War Scroll. By Søren Holst. Studia Semitica Upsaliensia 25. Uppsala: Uppsala University Library, 2008. Paperback. Pp. 178. € 18.80/US$ 25.00. ISBN 9789155472450.

Verbs and War Scroll: Studies in the Hebrew Verbal System and the Qumran War Scroll. By Søren... 378 Book Reviews / Dead Sea Discoveries 18 (2011) 367–391 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2011 DOI: 10.1163/156851711X602755 Verbs and War Scroll: Studies in the Hebrew Verbal System and the Qumran War Scroll . By Søren Holst. Studia Semitica Upsaliensia 25. Uppsala: Uppsala University Library, 2008. Paperback. Pp. 178. € 18.80/US$ 25.00. ISBN 9789155472450. In this book based on his 2004 dissertation at the University of Copenhagen, Søren Holst analyzes all of the verbal forms in the 1QM manuscript of the War Scroll (= 1Q33), with occasional use of Cave 4 fragments to supplement where lacunae are present. His central conclusion is that models based on word order have explanatory power in cases where a discourse-typological model, such as that of Longacre, is inadequate. In the first chapter, which comprises the first half of the book, Holst conducts a survey of scholarship on the verbal system of ancient Hebrew. Holst reviews theories of the Hebrew verbal system based on tense, comparative-historical stud- ies, the Aktionsart /aspect distinction, modality and text-linguistics. The author concludes that the best approach is one that combines the insights of traditional, clause-level grammatical approaches with those of text-linguistic approaches, according to which levels higher http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Dead Sea Discoveries Brill

Verbs and War Scroll: Studies in the Hebrew Verbal System and the Qumran War Scroll. By Søren Holst. Studia Semitica Upsaliensia 25. Uppsala: Uppsala University Library, 2008. Paperback. Pp. 178. € 18.80/US$ 25.00. ISBN 9789155472450.

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378 Book Reviews / Dead Sea Discoveries 18 (2011) 367–391 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2011 DOI: 10.1163/156851711X602755 Verbs and War Scroll: Studies in the Hebrew Verbal System and the Qumran War Scroll . By Søren Holst. Studia Semitica Upsaliensia 25. Uppsala: Uppsala University Library, 2008. Paperback. Pp. 178. € 18.80/US$ 25.00. ISBN 9789155472450. In this book based on his 2004 dissertation at the University of Copenhagen, Søren Holst analyzes all of the verbal forms in the 1QM manuscript of the War Scroll (= 1Q33), with occasional use of Cave 4 fragments to supplement where lacunae are present. His central conclusion is that models based on word order have explanatory power in cases where a discourse-typological model, such as that of Longacre, is inadequate. In the first chapter, which comprises the first half of the book, Holst conducts a survey of scholarship on the verbal system of ancient Hebrew. Holst reviews theories of the Hebrew verbal system based on tense, comparative-historical stud- ies, the Aktionsart /aspect distinction, modality and text-linguistics. The author concludes that the best approach is one that combines the insights of traditional, clause-level grammatical approaches with those of text-linguistic approaches, according to which levels higher

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