Stephen A. GellerJohnston, Edgar O2023-05-222018-10-051991-05-062018-10-05https://repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/27581The study relates the syntactic phenomena of word order displacement and pleonastic pronouns with finite verbs to emphatic constructions in Biblical Hebrew. After a compilation of the word order patterns in a database of all (non-waw consecutive) main clauses in Gen 12-25, Dt 1-11, 29-31, there is a review of the older studies of Albrecht, Brockelmann, of modern studies in linguistics, and then newer studies in Biblical Hebrew.Biblical StudiesComparative LiteratureCultural HistoryHistory of ReligionJewish StudiesLanguage Description and DocumentationLanguage Interpretation and TranslationReading and LanguageSyntaxDissertation/Thesis