Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Gerald A. Klingbeil" <gklingbeil AT aiias.edu>]

Dear Bryan and Johannes

here are some additional and more recent bibliographic references to 
pragmatics and Biblical Hebrew. I hope it helps.

Gerald

Frank H. Polak, "Sociolinguistics and the Judean Speech Community in the 
Achaemenid Empire," in /Judah and the Judeans in the Persian Period/ 
(ed. Oded Lipschits and Manfred Oeming; Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 
2006), 589-628.

Nicolai Winther-Nielsen, "Towards the Peak of Mount Sinai: A 
Discourse-Pragmatic Analysis of Exodus 19," /SEE-J Hiphil/ 2 (2005): 1-19.

William M. Schniedewind, "Prolegomena for the Sociolinguistics of 
Classical Hebrew," /Journal of Hebrew Scriptures/ 5 (2004): online.

John A. Cook, "The Semantics of Verbal Pragmatics: Clarifying the Roles 
of Wayyiqtol and Weqatal in Biblical Hebrew Prose," /Journal of Semitic 
Studies/ 49.2 (2004): 247-73.

Nicolai Winther-Nielsen, "Fact, Fiction, and Language Use: Can Modern 
Pragmatics Improve on Halpern's Case for History in Judges?," in 
/Windows Into Old Testament History. Evidence, Argument, and the Crisis 
of "Biblical Israel"/ (ed. V. Philips Long, David W. Baker and Gordon J. 
Wenham; Grand Rapids, Mich.-Cambridge, U.K.: Wm B. Eerdmans Publishing 
Company, 2002), 44-81.

Chantal J. Klingbeil, "Mirando más allá de las Palabras - Pragmática 
Lingüística y su Aplicación a los Estudios Bíblicos," in /Entender la 
Palabra. Hermenéutica Adventista para el Nuevo Siglo/ (ed. Merling 
Alomía, Gerald A. Klingbeil, Martin G. Klingbeil and Jorge Torreblanca; 
Cochabamba: Universidad Adventista de Bolivia, 2000), 123-35.

James K. Waters, "Contrastive Discourse Pragmatics and Translation with 
Implications for Training," /Bible Translator/ 51.1 (2000): 124-34.

Cristo H. J. van der Merwe, "The Elusive Biblical Hebrew Term wayehi 
(Hebr.). A Perspective in Terms of its Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics 
in 1 Samuel," /Hebrew Studies/ 40 (1999): 84-114.

Archibald L. H. M. van Wieringen, "The Reader in Genesis 22:1-19. 
Textsyntax - Textsemantics - Textpragmatics," /Estudios Bíblicos/ 53 
(1995): 289-304.

Horacio Simian-Yofre, "Pragmalingüistica: comunicación y exégesis," 
/Revista Bíblica/ 50.2-3 (1988): 75-95.

E. R. Hope, "Pragmatics, Exegesis, and Translation," in /Issues in Bible 
Translation/ (ed. Philip C. Stine; United Bible Societies Monograph 
Series 3; London: United Bible Societies, 1988), 113-28.