Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Max Rogland" <rogland AT erskine.edu>]

Those interested in pursuing the subject should consult the book below.

 

Regards,

 

Max Rogland

 

 

 


Comparing Welsh and Hebrew


 


Karel Jongeling


 


Comparing Welsh and Hebrew consists of two parts. In the first part the
author discusses the history of the comparison of Welsh and Hebrew. In the
first half of the seventeenth century the comparability of Welsh and Hebrew,
on the level of syntax as well as on the level of the lexicon, was
extensively discussed.
This is, of course, a long time before the emergence of historical
linguistics in its own right in the nineteenth century, and therefore only
interesting from a historical point of view. However, the insight that
Celtic is one of the branches of the Indo-European languages, accepted since
the second half of the nineteenth century, was not enough to put an end to
this discussion. It rather made a change in the type of solution proposed.
The second part of this study gives an overview of the points comparable in
Hebrew and Welsh syntax. There are even more of them than supposed by
earlier scholars. The question how this situation came about is tentatively
solved by the supposition of an Afro-Asiatic substratum in the British
Isles, and perhaps also on the Atlantic shores of the continent.
(In English, 176 pp.)

 


No. 81


ISBN 978-90-5789-032-1 


176 pp.


Leiden 2000


Price: € 27,60