A history of the Hebrew language - Saenz-Badillos, Angel (New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1996)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Hebrew language -- History