Saenz-Badillos, Angel. <br/><br/>
A history of the Hebrew language / 
Angel Saenz-Badillos ; translated by John Elwolde. 
 - 1st pbk. ed. 
 - New York,  NY :  Cambridge University Press,  1996. 
 - xii, 371 p. ;  pbk ;   23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Foreword / Shelomo Morag -- 1. Hebrew in the context of the Semitic languages. 1.1. Hebrew, a Semitic language. 1.2. The Semitic languages. 1.3. Common or Proto-Semitic. 1.4. The Hamito-Semitic or Afro-Asiatic group. 1.5. Hamito-Semitic and Indo-European -- 2. Hebrew, a Northwest Semitic language. 2.1. The Northwest Semitic languages. 2.2. Dialect development and its consequences -- 3. Pre-exilic Hebrew. 3.1. The historical unity and development of Hebrew. 3.2. The origins of Hebrew. 3.3. The language of archaic biblical poetry. 3.4. The language of the inscriptions. 3.5. Pre-exilic Hebrew prose -- 4. Biblical Hebrew in its various traditions. 4.1. The transmission of Biblical Hebrew. 4.2. The testimony of the Greek and Latin inscriptions. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0521556341 (paperback) 0521431573 (hb) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>95018821 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Hebrew language--History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PJ4545  / .S2313 1996 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>492.409/SAE