Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Ray Clendenen" <rclende AT lifeway.com>]

Here is the bibliography I have most recently used in speaking on discourse
linguistics/textlinguistics for biblical Hebrew:

Bergen, R. D. "Text as a Guide to Authorial Intention: An Introduction to
Discourse Criticism." JETS 30 (1987): 327-36.

________, ed. Biblical Hebrew and Discourse Linguistics. Dallas: Summer
Institute of Linguistics, 1994.

Blokland, A. F. den Exter. _In Search of Text Syntax: Towards a Syntactic
Text Segmentation Model for Biblical Hebrew. VU University Press, 1995.

Bodine, W. R., ed. Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew. Winona Lake: Eisen-
brauns, 1992.

________, ed. Discourse Analysis of Biblical Literature: What it is and
What it Offers. Atlanta: Scholars, 1995.

Clendenen, E. R. "Interpreting the Minor Prophets for Preaching," Faith &
Mission 13 (1995): 54-69.

________. "Old Testament Prophecy as Hortatory Text: Examples from
Malachi." Journal of Translation and Textlinguistics 6 (1993): 336-41.

Dawson, D. A. Text-Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew. JSOTSup 177. Shef-
field: Academic, 1994.

Longacre, R. E. "From Tagma to Tagmeme in Biblical Hebrew." In A William
Cameron Townsend en el Vigésimoquinto aniversario del Instito
Lingüistico de Verano, 563-92. Mexico: Instituto Lingüistico de Vera-
no.

________. "Interpreting Biblical Stories." In Discourse and Literature:
New Approaches to the Analysis of Literary Genres, ed. T. van Dijk,
169-85. Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1985.

________. Joseph: A Story of Divine Providence: A Text Theoretical and
Textlinguistic Analysis of Genesis 37 and 39-48. Winona Lake, IN:
Eisenbrauns, 1989.

________. "A Spectrum and Profile Approach to Discourse Analysis." Text
1 (1981): 337-59.

Talstra, E. "Text Grammar and Hebrew Bible." 2 parts. Bibliotheca Orien-
talis 35 (1978): 169-74, 39 (1982): 26-38.