Advances in the Study of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic by Benjamin J. Noonan offers a much-needed introduction to the issues in the current world of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic scholarship. This book fills a gap in the field of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic linguistics and provides an accessible, comprehensive, up-to-date, and linguistically-informed investigation of our understanding of these languages. 

Topics addressed include:

• Linguistics and linguistic theories
  
• History of scholarship of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic
  
• Lexical semantics and lexicography
  
• Verbal stems
  
• Tense, mood, and aspect in the verbal system
  
• Discourse analysis
  
• Register, dialect, style-shifting, and code-switching
  
• Word order in Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic
  
• Dating of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic texts
  
• Teaching and learning Biblical Hebrew