Sirach, scrolls, and sages : proceedings of a Second International Symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Ben Sira, and the Mishnah, held at Leiden University, 15-17 December 1997 / edited by T. Muraoka & J.F. Elwolde.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The semantics of 'glory' in Ben Sira--traces of a development in post-biblical Hebrew? / J.K. Aitken -- Nominal clauses with locative and possessive predicates in Qumran Hebrew / M.F.J. Baasten -- The Hebrew texts of Ben Sira 32[35].16-33[36].2 / P.C. Beentjes -- An unusual use of the definite article in biblical and post-biblical Hebrew / M. Ehrensvärd -- Some lexical structures in 1QH: towards a distinction of the linguistic and the literary / J.F. Elwolde -- On syntax and style in Ben Sira: word order / S.E. Fassberg -- Further comments on the linguistic profile of Ben Sira: syntactic affinities with Late Biblical Hebrew / A. Hurvitz -- Pseudo-classicisms in Late Biblical Hebrew, in Ben Sira, and in Qumran Hebrew / J. Joosten -- Some notes on biblical expressions and allusions and the lexicography of Ben Sira / M. Kister -- The participle in Qumran Hebrew with special reference to its periphrastic use / T. Muraoka -- 4QMMT: linguistic analyiss of redactional forms related to biblical and rabbinic language / M. Pérez Fernández -- Negation in the Hebrew of Ben Sira / W.T. van Peursen -- The derivation of the noun tsbwht in the Dead Sea Scrolls / E. Qimron -- The Hebrew of Ben Sira investigated on the basis of his use of krt: a syntactic, semantic, and language-historical contribution / F.V. Reiterer -- Grammatically speaking: the participle as a main verb of clauses (perdicative participle) in direct discourse and narrative in pre-Mishnaic Hebrew / M.S. Smith -- Qumran and Mishnah: a comparison of prescriptive text types / N.A. van Uchelen -- The language of the Hebrew Bible contrasted with the language of the Ben Sira manuscripts and of the Dead Sea Scrolls / J.W. Wesselius.