Prof. Adina Moshavi

Books (as author)

2010. Word Order in the Biblical Hebrew Finite Clause: A Syntactic and Pragmatic Analysis of Preposing. Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic 4. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns.

Articles and chapters in books

(With R. C. Steiner) 1995. “A Selective Glossary of Aramaic Texts in Egyptian Script.” In J. Hoftijzer and K. Jongeling (eds.), Dictionary of the North-West Semitic Inscriptions, 2:1249-1266. Leiden: Brill.

2006. “The Discourse Functions of Object/Adverbial-Fronting in Biblical Hebrew.” In S. E. Fassberg and A. Hurvitz (eds.), Biblical Hebrew in its Northwest Semitic Setting: Typological and Historical Perspectives, Publication of the Institute for Advanced Studies 1, 231-245. Jerusalem: Magnes and Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns.

2013. “Verbal Clause, Biblical Hebrew.” In G. Khan (ed.), Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics, vol. 3, 904-910. Leiden: Brill

2013. “Interrogative Clause, Biblical Hebrew.” In G. Khan (ed.), Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics, vol. 2, 306-316. Leiden: Brill

2013. “Word Order, Biblical Hebrew,” In G. Khan (ed.), Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics, vol. 3, 991-998. Leiden: Brill. 

Articles in periodicals

2004. “On Distinguishing Polysemy from Generality in the Biblical Hebrew Verb: An Analysis of the Verb bqš,” Lěšonénu 66: 31-48 (in Hebrew).

2007. “Topicalization in Biblical Hebrew,” Lešonenu 69: 7-30 (in Hebrew).

2007. “Syntactic Evidence for a Clausal Adverb הלא in Biblical Hebrew.” Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages 33: 51-63.

2007. “הלא as a Discourse Marker of Justification in Biblical Hebrew.” Hebrew Studies 48: 171-186.

2009. “Two Types of Argumentation Involving Rhetorical Questions in Biblical Hebrew Dialogue.” Biblica 90: 32-46.

2009. “Focus Preposing in Biblical Hebrew,” Lěšonénu 71: 35-55 (in Hebrew).

2010. “‘Is That Your Voice, My Son David?’ Conducive Questions in Biblical Hebrew.” Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages 36: 65-81.

2011.  “Can a Positive Rhetorical Question have a Positive Answer in the Bible.” Journal of Semitic Studies 56: 253-273.

2011. “Rhetorical Question or Assertion?  The Pragmatics of הלא in Biblical Hebrew.” Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Studies 32: 91-105.

2013. “The Communicative Functions Of Content (“WH”) Questions In Classical Biblical Hebrew Prose.” Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages 39: 69-87.

2014. “What Can I Say? Implications and Communicative Functions of Rhetorical ‘WH’ Questions in Classical Biblical Hebrew Prose.” Vetus Testamentum 64: 93-108.

2015. “Between Dialectic and Rhetoric: Rhetorical Questions Expressing Premises in Biblical Prose Argumentation. Vetus Testamentum 65:136-151.

In preparation:

Books (as editor)

(With Tania Notarius) Studies in Biblical Hebrew Linguistics. Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic. Indiana: Eisenbrauns.