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Book review: Das hebräische Partizip in den Texten aus der judäischen Wüste , written by Gregor Geiger

Book review: Das hebräische Partizip in den Texten aus der judäischen Wüste , written by Gregor... Das hebräische Partizip in den Texten aus der judäischen Wüste . stdj 101. Leiden: Brill, 2012. Hardcover. Pp. xvii + 591. € 188.00/ us $ 261.00. isbn 9789004202863. With cd-rom . The author of the present monograph modestly states, on its first page, that it is primarily descriptive in nature and that in order to describe one must collect and classify—and that collection, therefore, has taken up a major part of the working hours of the author as well as the paper and printing ink that has gone into the creation of the book. The same will probably hold for the benefit to be derived from its use: “Whoever is looking for a [specific] participle from a Qumran scroll will find it here, listed together with identical or similar forms, comparable constructions or with other forms derived from the same root, and will also find a great amount of references to further discussion” (1). Complete comprehensiveness is aimed at in terms of the material covered, and achieving this is certainly no small feat, dealing with a textual corpus that comprises all biblical and non-biblical Hebrew manuscripts from the Judean desert, including sites other than Qumran, as well as http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Dead Sea Discoveries Brill

Book review: Das hebräische Partizip in den Texten aus der judäischen Wüste , written by Gregor Geiger

Dead Sea Discoveries , Volume 22 (1): 126 – Apr 17, 2015

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Brill
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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
Subject
Book Reviews
ISSN
0929-0761
eISSN
1568-5179
DOI
10.1163/15685179-12341340
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Das hebräische Partizip in den Texten aus der judäischen Wüste . stdj 101. Leiden: Brill, 2012. Hardcover. Pp. xvii + 591. € 188.00/ us $ 261.00. isbn 9789004202863. With cd-rom . The author of the present monograph modestly states, on its first page, that it is primarily descriptive in nature and that in order to describe one must collect and classify—and that collection, therefore, has taken up a major part of the working hours of the author as well as the paper and printing ink that has gone into the creation of the book. The same will probably hold for the benefit to be derived from its use: “Whoever is looking for a [specific] participle from a Qumran scroll will find it here, listed together with identical or similar forms, comparable constructions or with other forms derived from the same root, and will also find a great amount of references to further discussion” (1). Complete comprehensiveness is aimed at in terms of the material covered, and achieving this is certainly no small feat, dealing with a textual corpus that comprises all biblical and non-biblical Hebrew manuscripts from the Judean desert, including sites other than Qumran, as well as

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Published: Apr 17, 2015

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