Advances in the Study of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic by Benjamin J. Noonan offers a much-needed introduction to the issues in the current world of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic scholarship. This book fills a gap in the field of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic linguistics and provides an accessible, comprehensive, up-to-date, and linguistically-informed investigation of our understanding of these languages.

Topics addressed include:
Linguistics and linguistic theories History of scholarship of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic Lexical semantics and lexicography Verbal stems Tense, mood, and aspect in the verbal system Discourse analysis Register, dialect, style-shifting, and code-switching Word order in Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic Dating of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic texts Teaching and learning Biblical Hebrew