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Homonymous Roots Between Exegesis and Textual Criticism: The Case of חבלי־מות and חבלי שאול in Ps 18,5-6
Biblica. 2024. Vol. 105. No. 4. P. 494–505.
Discussing the variants חבלי־מות in Psa 18,5 and משברי־מות in 2 Sam 22,5 I join Talmon in considering them not transmission errors, but synonymous readings. However, I demonstrate that the equating of these two terms as both denoting “birth pangs” is not attested in the Hebrew Bible but is a later exegetical development. I argue that חבלי־מות in Psa 18,5 should be interpreted as “destructions of death” (from the root ḫbl). In this sense, it constitutes an appropriate synonymous pairing for משברי־מות “breakers of death”, and its juxtaposition with the expression חבלי שאול “cords of Sheol” in verse 6 is an intended wordplay.
Khurshudyan V., Plungian Vladimir, Stepanyants Maxim, Voprosy Jazykoznanija 2026 No. 5 P. 81–98
This study examines the range of strategies used to encode future time reference in Standard EasternArmenian, situating them within the broader context of other Modern Armenian varieties. Illustrative data are drawn from Standard Western Armenian, the Hadrut dialect, and the Hamshen dialect. Adopting a semantic approach, we employ the term “future time reference” to delimit ...
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Zhivlov M., Journal of Language Relationship 2025 Vol. 23 No. 3-4 P. 344–374
The article continues the series of publications focused on the reassessment of the controversial Hokan hypothesis. In this paper, the traditional comparative method is applied to the reflexes of Proto-Hokan obstruents and glottal stop. The obtained results are compared to Terrence Kaufman’s (1989) reconstruction of Proto-Hokan. ...
Added: September 27, 2026
Loesov S., Häberl C., Бромирская А. С., Journal of Semitic Studies 2026 Vol. 71 No. 2 P. 765–812
This contribution presents three excerpts from a Modern Western Aramaic interview collected in December 2020 in Maaloula, Syria. In the interview, the narrator relates his own biographical details, the legendary life of Thecla, and a personal account of a miraculous healing. The local traditions concerning Thecla feature distinctive motifs, including the miraculous opening of the ...
Added: September 27, 2026
Chermoshentseva K., Человек: образ и сущность. Гуманитарные аспекты 2026 Т. - № 2(66) С. 227–243
The paper focuses on the system of metaphorical images used in modern English-language memoir narratives in prenatal and postnatal discourse. It reveals a set of social representations of pregnancy and childbirth, which act as a modeling factor for the formation of metaphorical images. The purpose of the study is to demonstrate the decisive role of ...
Added: September 22, 2026
Никитенко Д. Ю., RHEMA. РЕМА 2026 № 1 С. 188–207
This study explores a fragment of the accentual system of the Pskov dialect, with data obtained from both a corpus and fieldwork. The focus is on a-stem nouns (1st declension), with the accent types and stress patterns described. The accent types of nouns are presented in tables, while the stress patterns are given in a dictionary format, allowing for a combined approach to describing the dialect’s accentual system. Special attention is paid to stress placement in the accusativus singularis form of a number of words, which in this case ...
Added: September 22, 2026
Воробьёва О. А., Достоевский и мировая культура. Филологический журнал 2026 № 3 С. 230–246
The article examines the history of the creation of the radio play
Babulyenka, directed in 1968 by N.S. Sukhotskaya based on Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel The Gambler. An analysis of archival materials preserved in the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art (RGALI), including the typescript of the script, Sukhotskaya’s directorial notes, the working notes of F. G. ...
Added: September 20, 2026
Springer, 2026.
Two volumes of the SPECOM 2026 proceedings contain a collection of submitted papers presented at SPECOM 2026, which were thoroughly reviewed by members of the Program Committee and additional reviewers consisting of almost 80 experts in the conference topic areas. In total, 65 regular full papers out of 99 submissions made via the EasyChair electronic ...
Added: September 20, 2026
Пинчукова А. Е., Вестник филологических наук 2026 Т. 6 № 9 С. 176–186
The paper focuses on the study of language phenomena within the interdisciplinary paradigm and the notion of a narrative as one of the most popular ones for investigation in various fields. The purpose of the article is to single out the principles of the communicative competence development in the medical sphere, in which the area ...
Added: September 18, 2026
Tsvetkova M. V., Алентьева А. А., Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Литературоведение, журналистика 2026 № 2 С. 385–397
The purpose of this article is to describe the specifics of Irish playwright Brian Friel’s adaptation of I.S. Turgenev’s novel Fathers and Sons for the theater and the reasons behind Friel’s transformations. The novelty of this study stems from the fact that the reception of Russian classical literature in Ireland in the 20th century has ...
Added: September 17, 2026
Гусев В. Ю., Языки и фольклор коренных народов Сибири 2025 Т. 56 № 4 С. 90–99
В нганасанском языке существует сложная система чередования гласных в суффиксах, которая восходит к противопоставлению переднего и заднего рядов, но в результате многих передвижений гласных лишилась фонетической мотивации. Из всех суффиксов есть один глагольный, который, присоединяясь к корням, выражающим визуально наблюдаемые свойства, способен принимать гласные обоих сингармонических классов, соответственно меняя гласные и всех аффиксов, следующих за ...
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Гусев В. Ю., Аралова Н. Б., Языки и фольклор коренных народов Сибири 2025 Т. 54 № 2 С. 81–95
Рассматриваются формы сравнительной степени прилагательных, которые возникли в диалектахсеверных тунгусо-маньчжурских языков. Морфологическая сравнительная степень ‒ типологически довольно редкое явление, которое отсутствует, в том числе, в большинстве языков Сибири. Однако во многих диалектах эвенкийского, эвенского и негидальского языков эти формы появились, грамматикализовавшись в континентальных диалектах из селективного показателя, а в быстринском эвенском (Камчатка) ‒ из аттенуатива. ...
Added: September 16, 2026
Гусев В. Ю., Вестник Российского фонда фундаментальных исследований. Гуманитарные и общественные науки 2025 № 3 С. 54–69
В статье рассматриваются модели образования числительных второго десятка (с 11 до 19) в языках Сибири. «Простая» модель, в которой эти числительные образуются соположением слова ‘десять’ и количества единиц («десять один», «десять два» и т.д.), характерна для языков юга Сибири, но проникает также на север восточнее Енисея и на восток Якутии. Вторая модель, включающая слово типа ...
Added: September 16, 2026
Куликова В. А., Гусев А. Д., Токунова П. В., Коммуникативные исследования 2026 Т. 13 № 2 С. 355–369
The article examines the semantic and pragmatic features of cognitive terms functioning in modern Russian-language media texts. The study aims to describe the specifics of using cognitive terminology in contexts aimed at expressing evaluation. The relevance of the work is driven by the active processes of mediatization and determinologization, as a result of which scientific ...
Added: September 14, 2026
Bursov K., Slioussar N., Kokhova M. et al., Brain and Language 2026 Vol. 275 Article 105719
Previous EEG studies demonstrated ample evidence for a major influence of morphological regularity on inflectional processing. However, regularity effects may be attributed to different properties of inflectional classes: to type frequency, to productivity, or to defaultness (assumed only in some models). In many languages, these factors cannot be teased apart, but it is possible in ...
Added: September 13, 2026
Bursov K., Slioussar N., Discourse Processes 2025 Vol. 62 No. 3 P. 155–176
Various coordinating and subordinating conjunctions that connect clauses differ in their structural properties. Such properties seem to influence dis course prominence: references to antecedents from main clauses are more frequent than from subordinate. Structurally, coordinate and subordinate clauses, as well as in-between cases, can be distinguished based on the degree of integration to the host ...
Added: September 13, 2026
Yurovitskaya M., Zeitschrift fur die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 2026 Vol. 138 No. 3 P. 392–400
I propose to relate the puzzling rendering of סָבְאָם as Χαναναίους in Hos 4:18a LXX to the only other occurrence of סֹבֶא “strong drink, wine, or beer”, Isa 1:22, where the term is translated in the LXX as οἱ κάπηλοι “retailers”. Given that כְּנַעֲנִי “Canaanite” functioned as a designation for “trader”, I argue that both verses ultimately reflect ...
Added: June 25, 2026
Битнер К. А., Индоевропейское языкознание и классическая филология 2025 Т. 29 № 1 С. 180–195
The article focuses on the interpretation of several of the most important variants of the text of Isaiah 42:1–9, which are contained in the Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaa ) discovered at Qumran. This manuscript is the oldest evidence of the Hebrew text of the biblical book of Isaiah, dating from the second half of the ...
Added: June 22, 2026
Shumilin M., Индоевропейское языкознание и классическая филология 2026 Т. 30 № 1 С. 769–790
In the article, a reconsideration of Biagio Garofalo’s treatise “Considerations regarding the Poetry of the Hebrews and the Greeks” (Considerazioni intorno alla poesia degli Ebrei, e de i Greci, 1707) is proposed inscribing it in the context of European discussions of “natural word order” in the 17th and 18th centuries. The treatise is more often ...
Added: June 18, 2026
Seleznev M., Индоевропейское языкознание и классическая филология 2025 Т. 29 № 2 С. 401–410
The crystallization of apocalyptic and eschatological ideas in the Jewish tradition began during the Babylonian captivity and continued during the Second Temple period. In a developed form, Jewish eschatology is presented in the book of Daniel (second century B.C.), in the book of Enoch (last centuries B.C.), in the New Testament, and in numerous Jewish ...
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Yurovitskaya M., Индоевропейское языкознание и классическая филология 2025 Т. 29 № 2 С. 651–661
It has long been recognised that the LXX and Targumim share common exegesis of a number of verses and words. In contrast to the hypothesis of a direct influence of the early forms of Targumim on the LXX, I believe that these versions rather reflect a common approach to the interpretation of biblical texts, as ...
Added: June 18, 2025
Seleznev M., Journal of Septuagint and Cognate Studies (JSCS) 2024 Vol. 57 P. 73–93
In the LXX-Psalter, in about 80% of cases, the choice between past, present, and future/non-indicative (in the present paper we consider future tense and non-indicative moods together) was predetermined by the tenses of the original. As for the remaining 20%, some of these “abnormal” renderings can be explained as inheriting the tense value from the ...
Added: November 13, 2024
Seleznev M., В кн.: Миф, ритуал, литература.: М.: Издательский дом НИУ ВШЭ, 2022. С. 68–83.
Стих Ис 19:18-19 звучит по-разному в масоретском тексте Библии, в Септуагинте и в кумранских рукописях. Согласно кумранским рукописям 1QIsa и 4QIsb (к сожалению, в других кумранских списках Исайи этот стих безнадежно поврежден): «В тот день будет пять городов в земле египетской, говорящих на языке Ханаана и клянущихся Господом Воинств. Один из них будет называться ʽir ...
Added: November 13, 2024
Битнер К. А., Индоевропейское языкознание и классическая филология 2024 Т. 1 № 28 С. 127–139
The paper discusses the meaning of the word nwgˁ, which occurs in the Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaa ) in Isa 53:8. This manuscript is the oldest Hebrew copy of the biblical book of Isaiah, dating from the second half of the second century BCE. The passage Isa 53:8 is part of the so-called Fourth Song ...
Added: September 10, 2024
Kogan L., Yurovitskaya M., Восток. Афро-азиатские общества: история и современность 2024 № 2 С. 211–239
This article is a part of the forthcoming commentary on the biblical Book of Hosea. It contains a new translation of chapter 3 with an introduction and a detailed philological com- mentary on the Hebrew text.
In the commentary, we analyze a number of complex or rare words and expressions: 1) rēaʕ “neighbor”; 2) pānā “to ...
Added: July 20, 2024