Footnotes

1.

See Yosef Ofer, “The Mystery of the Missing Pages of the Aleppo Codex,BAR 41:04; Emanuel Tov, “Searching for the ‘Original Bible,’BAR 40:04; David Marcus and James A. Sanders, “What’s Critical About a Critical Edition of the Bible?BAR 39:06; Yosef Ofer, “The Shattered Crown, 60 Years After the Riots,BAR 34:05; Harvey Minkoff, “The Aleppo Codex—Ancient Bible from the Ashes,Bible Review 07:04.

2.

See Sidnie White Crawford, “A View from the Caves,BAR 37:05; Steve Mason, “Did the Essenes Write the Dead Sea Scrolls?BAR 34:06; “A New Dead Sea Scroll in Stone?BAR 34:01.

3.

See Paul Sanders, “Missing Link in Hebrew Bible Formation,BAR 41:06.

Endnotes

1.

Although certain phenomena characteristic of the late period at times appear sporadically in earlier compositions, an outstanding accumulation of these features may be found only in the decisively late sources.

2.

Frederick H. Cryer, “The Problem of Dating Biblical Hebrew and the Hebrew of Daniel,” in Knud Jeppesen, Kirsten Nielsen and Bent Rosendal, eds., In the Last Days: On Jewish and Christian Apocalyptic and Its Period (Festschrift Benedikt Otzen) (Aarhus: Aarhus Univ. Press, 1994), p. 192.

3.

For diachronic studies dealing specifically with Late Biblical Hebrew, see Aaron D. Hornkohl, Ancient Hebrew Periodization and the Language of the Book of Jeremiah: The Case for a Sixth-Century Date of Composition (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2014); Avi Hurvitz, “Biblical Hebrew, Late,” in Geoffrey Khan, ed., Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics, vol. 1 (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2013), pp. 329–338; Avi Hurvitz, A Concise Lexicon of Late Biblical Hebrew: Linguistic Innovations in the Writings of the Second Temple Period (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2014); Eduard Y. Kutscher, “Biblical Hebrew,” in Raphael Kutscher, ed., A History of the Hebrew Language (Jerusalem: Magnes, 1982), pp. 12–86; Robert Polzin, Late Biblical Hebrew: Toward an Historical Typology of Biblical Hebrew Prose (Missoula, MT: Scholars Press for the Harvard Semitic Museum, 1976); Mark F. Rooker, “Recent Trends in the Linguistic Analysis of Biblical Hebrew,” in Ethan C. Jones, ed., Essays in Honor of George L. Klein (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, forthcoming); Angel Sáenz-Badillos, A History of the Hebrew Language (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1993), pp. 112–160.