Dr. W.T. van Peursen – Old Testament
Position:
- Associate Professor of Old Testament
| Telephone number: | +31 (0)71 527 2569 |
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| E-Mail: | w.t.van.peursen@hum.leidenuniv.nl |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Leids Instituut Godsdienstwetenschappen |
| Office Address: |
Witte Singel-complex Matthias de Vrieshof 1 2311 BZ Leiden Room number 0.02a |
W.Th. (Wido) van Peursen finished his PhD dissertation on the verbal system in the Hebrew text of Ben Sira in 1999. A revised and enlarged edition appeared in 2004. In 2000 he received a scholarship from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for a post-doctoral research project entitled “Language and Interpretation in the Syriac Text of Ben Sira. A Comparative Linguistic and Literary Study”. A monograph with the same title appeared in 2007. This project is part of CALAP (Computer Assisted Linguistic Analysis of the Peshitta), a joint research project of the Peshitta Institute Leiden and the Werkgroep Informatica Vrije Universiteit. The main focus of this project is the interaction between computer linguistics, Syriac and general Semitic studies, textual criticism and Old Testament exegesis. In 2005 he received a VIDI grant from NWO for the project Turgama: Computer–Assisted Analysis of the Peshitta and the Targum: Text, Language and Interpretation. Wido van Peursen is also involved in some international projects on the Syriac language and Peshitta studies, including the International Syriac Language Project, the preparation of the Concordance to the Peshitta, the New English Annotated Translation of the Syriac Bible (The Bible of Edessa), the Revision of the List of OT Peshitta Manuscripts, the ESF Research Network Program Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies, and the Pericope Project.
Links
- Blended Learning (Studeren op afstand)
- KNAW Colloqium 'Text comparisons and Digital Creativity' 30-31 October
Selected Publications
- Peursen, W.Th. van, Language and Interpretation in the Syriac Text of Ben Sira. A Comparative Linguistic and Literary Study (Monographs of the Peshitta Institute Leiden 16; Leiden: Brill, 2007). More>>
- Keulen, P.S.F. van and Peursen, W.Th. van, Corpus Linguistics and Textual History. A Computer-Assisted Interdisciplinary Approach to the Peshitta (Studia Semitica Neerlandica 48; Assen: Van Gorcum, 2006; distributed by Brill Academic Publishers). More>>
Reviews:
Cook, J., Review of Biblical Literature [http://www.bookreviews.org] (2007). More>>
Greenberg, G., Aramaic Studies 4 (2006) 259–263.
- Peursen, W.Th. van and Haar Romeny, R.B. ter, Text, Translation, and Tradition. Studies on the Peshitta and its Use in the Syriac Tradition Presented to Konrad D. Jenner on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday (MPIL 14; Leiden: Brill, 2006). More>>
Reviews:
Cook, J., Review of Biblical Literature [http://www.bookreviews.org] (2007). More>>
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The Verbal System in the Hebrew Text of Ben Sira (Studies in Semitic Languages and Literatures 41; Leiden: Brill, 2004). More>>
Reviews:
Beentjes, P.C., Bijdragen: International Journal in Philosophy and Theology 66 (2005) 221–222.
Elwolde, J.F., Journal of Semitic Studies 51 (2006) 397–409.
Di Giulio, M., Materia giudaica. Rivista dell’associazione italiana per lo studio del giudaismo 10 (2005) 188–190.
s.a., New Testament Abstracts 49 (2005) 455.
- Baasten, M.F.J. and Peursen, W.Th. van, Hamlet on a Hill: Semitic and Greek Studies Presented to Professor T. Muraoka on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday (OLA 118; Leuven: Peeters, 2003). More>>
Reviews:
Brooke, G.J., Society for Old Testament Study. Book List 2004, 2–3.
Hagedoorn A.C., Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 117 (2005) 143–144.
Healey, J.F., Journal of Semitic Studies 51 (2006) 433.
Hoop, R. de, Journal for the Study Judaism 37 (2006) 401–403.
Prato, G.L., Adamantius 11 (2005) 469–473.
Rendsburg, G.A., Ancient Near Eastern Studies 41 (2004) 267–272.
s.a., New Testament Abstracts 48/2 (2004) 453–454.
- Lettinga, J.P., Grammatica van het bijbels Hebreeuws, tenth revised edition by T. Muraoka, with the assistance of W.Th. van Peursen, and Hulpboek bij de Grammatica van het bijbels Hebreeuws, eighth, revised edition (Leiden: Brill, 1996; eleventh revised edition of the Grammatica and ninth, corrected edition of Hulpboek, 2000). More>>
2011
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Peursen, W.T., van (2011)
Daniel’s Four Kingdoms in the Syriac Tradition. In: Peursen, W.Th., van & Dyk, J.W. (Eds.), .), Tradition and Innovation in Biblical Interpretation. Studies Presented to Professor Eep Talstra on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday (Studia Semitica Neerlandica), 57. , pp. 189-207. Leiden: Brill.
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Bakker, D. & Peursen, W.T., van (2011)
Digital Text Comparison of Ancient Hebrew Texts. A Case Study of the Two Accounts of the Battle against the Canaanite Army Captain Sisera (Judges 4-5). In Jorn, R.J., Liu, Kecheng, Faber, N.R. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Informatics and Semotics in Organisations: Problems and Possibilities of Computational Humanities. ISICO 2011, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands, 4–6 July 2011 (pp. 145-152). Leeuwarden: Fryske Akademy.
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Peursen, W.T., van (2011)
The Book of Ben Sira in the Syriac Tradition. In: Rey, J.-S. & Joosten, J. (Eds.), The Texts and Versions of the Book of Ben Sira. Transmission and Interpretation (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism), 150. , pp. 143-165. Leiden: Brill.
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Peursen, W.T., van & Gutman, A. (2011)
The Two Syriac Versions of the Prayer of Manasseh. (Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies, 30). Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias.
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Peursen, W.T., van (2011)
Tradition and Innovation in Biblical Interpretation. An Introduction. In: Peursen, W.Th., van & Dyk, J.W. (Eds.), Tradition and Innovation in Biblical Interpretation. Studies Presented to Professor Eep Talstra on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday (Studia Semitica Neerlandica), 57. , pp. 1-10. Leiden: Brill.
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Peursen, W.T., van & Dyk, J.W. (2011)
Tradition and Innovation in Biblical Interpretation. Studies Presented to Professor Eep Talstra on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday. (Studia Semitica Neerlandica, 57). Leiden: Brill.
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2010
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Meer, M.N., van der & Keulen, P.S.F., van & Peursen, W.T., van & Haar Romeny, R.B., ter (Eds.) (2010)
Isaiah in Context. Studies in Honour of Arie van der Kooij on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Leiden, Boston: Brill.
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Peursen, W.T., van (2010)
Review of Boccaccini, G. (ed.), Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man. Revisiting the Book of Parables. [Bespreking van: Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man. Revisiting the Book of Parables]. In: Bibliotheca Orientalis 67/5-6 (September-December 2010), 67, pp. 390-394.
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Peursen, W.T., van (2010)
Review of Loader, W., Enoch, Levi, and Jubilees on Sexuality. Attitudes toward Sexuality in the Early Enoch Literature, the Aramaic Levi Document, and the Book of Jubilees. [Bespreking van: Enoch, Levi, and Jubilees on Sexuality. Attitudes toward Sexuality in the Early Enoch Literature, the Aramaic Levi Document, and the Book of Jubilees]. In: Bibliotheca Orientalis 67/5-6 (September-December 2010), 67, pp. 387-389.
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Peursen, W.T., van (2010)
Review of Xeravitz, G.G. and Zsengellér, J. (eds.), Studies in the Book of Ben Sira. Papers of the Third International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books, Shime`on Centre, Pápa, Hungary, 18–20 May, 200. [Bespreking van: Studies in the Book of Ben Sira. Papers of the Third International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books, Shime`on Centre, Pápa, Hungary, 18–20 May, 2006]. In: Journal for the Study of Judaism, 41, pp. 437-438.
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Weel, A.H., van der & Thoutenhoofd, E. & Peursen, W.T., van (Eds.) (2010)
Text Comparison and Digital Creativity. Leiden: Brill.
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Peursen, W.T., van (2010)
Text Comparison and Digital Creativity. An Introduction. In: Peursen, W.Th., van, Thoutenhoofd, E.D., Weel, A.H., van der (Eds.), Text Comparison and Digital Creativity. The Production of Presence and Meaning in Digital Text Scholarship (Scholarly Communication), 1. , pp. 1-27. Leiden: Brill.
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Peursen, W.T., van (2010)
The Text of Isaiah 26:9–19 in the Syriac Odes. In: Meer, M.N., van der, Keulen, P.S.F., van, Peursen, W.Th., van, Haar Romeny, R.B., ter (Eds.), Isaiah in Context. Studies in Honour of Arie van der Kooij on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday (Vetus Testamentum Supplements), 138. , pp. 339-355. Leiden: Brill.
(Part of book or chapter of book)
2009
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Peursen, W.T., van & Sikkel, C.J. (2009)
Conference Report: EACL 2009 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages, Athens, Greece, 31 March 2009. Hugoye, Journal of Syriac Studies, 12 (1)
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Peursen, W.T., van (2009)
How to Establish a Verbal Paradigm on the Basis of Ancient Syriac Manuscripts. In Rosner, , M. & Wintner, , S. (Eds.) Proceedings of the EACL 2009 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages (pp. 1-9). Athens: Association of Computational Linguistics.
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Peursen, W.T., van (2009)
Plagiaatbestrijding en analyse van oude bijbelvertalingen. Computationele tekstvergelijking in onderwijs en onderzoek. Nederlands Theologisch Tijdschrift, 63, pp. 22-36.
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Peursen, W.T., van (2009)
Review of Schoors, A., The Preacher Sought to Find Pleasing Words. A Study of the Language of Qoheleth. Part II: Vocabulary (OLA 143; Leuven 2004). [Bespreking van: The Preacher Sought to Find Pleasing Words. A Study of the Language of Qoheleth. Part II: Vocabulary]. In: Bibliotheca Orientalis, 66, pp. 211-214.
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Peursen, W.T., van & Falla, T.C. (2009)
The The Particles geyr and deyn in Classical Syriac. In Williams, P.J. (Ed.) Foundations for Syriac Lexicography II. Colloquia of the International Syriac Language Project Vol. 3 (pp. 63-98). Piscataway: Gorgias.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
2008
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Peursen, W.T., van (2008)
Dray, C.A., Translation and Interpretation in the Targum to the Books of Kings (SAIS 5). [Bespreking van: Translation and Interpretation in the Targum to the Books of Kings]. In: Ancient Near Eastern Studies, 45, pp. 269-271.
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Dyk, J.W. & Peursen, W.T., van (Eds.) (2008)
Foundations for Syriac Lexicography III. Colloquia of the International Syriac Language Project. Piscataway: Gorgias.
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Peursen, W.T., van (2008)
Inflectional Morpheme or Part of the Lexeme: Some Reflections on the Shaphel in Classical Syriac. In: Dyk, J.W. & Peursen, W.Th., van (Eds.), Foundations for Syriac Lexicography III. Colloquia of the International Syriac Language Project (Perspectives on Syriac Linguistics), 4. , pp. 41-57. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias.
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Dyk, J.W. & Peursen, W.T., van (2008)
Introduction: Syriac Lexicography between General Linguistics and Semitic Philology. In: Dyk, J.W. & Peursen, W.Th., van (Eds.), Foundations for Syriac Lexicography III. Colloquia of the International Syriac Language Project (Perspectives on Syriac Linguistics), 4. , pp. 1-8. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias.
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Peursen, W.T., van (2008)
La diffusion des manuscrits bibliques conservés: typologie, organisation, nombre et époques de copie. In: Briquel-Chatonnet, F. & Moigne, Ph., Le (Eds.), L’Ancient Testament en syriaque (Études Syriaques), 5. , pp. 193-214. Paris
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Peursen, W.T., van (2008)
Language Variation, Language Development and the Textual History of the Peshitta. In: Gzella, H. & Folmer, M.L. (Eds.), Aramaic in its Historical and Linguistic Setting (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission), 50. , pp. 231-256. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
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Peursen, W.T., van (2008)
Malessa, M., Untersuchungen zur verbalen Valenz im biblischen Hebräisch (SSN 49). [Bespreking van: Untersuchungen zur verbalen Valenz im biblischen Hebräisch]. In: Nederlands Theologisch Tijdschrift, 62, pp. 68-69.
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Peursen, W.T., van (2008)
Review of Beentjes, P.C., Happy the One who Meditates on Wisdom” (Sir. 14,20). Collected Essays on the Book of Ben Sira. [Bespreking van: Happy the One who Meditates on Wisdom” (Sir. 14,20). Collected Essays on the Book of Ben Sira]. In: Journal for the Study of Judaism, 39, pp. 90-92.
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Peursen, W.T., van (2008)
The Word תחליף in Ben Sira. In: Joosten, J. & Rey, J.-S. (Eds.), Conservatism and Innovation in the Hebrew Language of the Hellenistic Period. Proceedings of a Fourth International Symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ben Sira, pp. 133-148. Leiden: Brill.
(Part of book or chapter of book)
2007
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Peursen, W.T., van & Talstra, E. (2007)
Computer-Assisted Analysis of Parallel Texts in the Bible. The Case of 2 Kings xviii-xix and its Parallels in Isaiah and Chronicles. Vetus Testamentum, 57, pp. 45-72.
(Article)
2006
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Keulen, P.S.F., van & Peursen, W.T., van (Eds.) (2006)
Corpus Linguistics and Textual History. A Computer-Assisted Interdisciplinary Approach to the Peshitta. Assen: Van Gorcum.
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Peursen, W.T., van (2006)
Sirach Quotations in the Discourses of Philoxenus of Mabbug: Text and Context. In: Haar Romeny, R.B., ter (Ed.), The Peshitta: Its Use in Literature and Liturgy. Proceedings of the Third Peshitta Symposium held at Leiden University, 12–15 August 2001 (MPIL), 15. , pp. 243-258. Leiden: Brill.
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Peursen, W.T., van & Haar Romeny, R.B., ter (Eds.) (2006)
Text, Translation, and Tradition: Studies on the Peshitta and its Use in the Syriac Tradition Presented to Konrad D. Jenner on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Leiden: Brill.
(Book editorial)
2005
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Peursen, W.T., van (2005)
Que vive celui qui fait vivre: le texte syriaque de Sirach 48:10–12. In: Schenker, A. & Hugo, Ph. (Eds.), L' enfance de la Bible hébraïque. Histoire du texte de l' Ancien Testament (Le monde de la Bible), 52. , pp. 286-301. Genève: Labor et fides.
(Part of book or chapter of book)
2004
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Jenner, K.D. & Salvesen, A. & Peursen, W.T., van & Haar Romeny, R.B., ter (2004)
The New English Annotated Translation of the Syriac Bible (NEATSB): Retrospect and Prospect. Aramaic Studies, 2 (1), pp. 85-106.
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Peursen, W.T., van (2004)
The Verbal System in the Hebrew Text of Ben Sira. (Sudies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 41). Leiden: Brill.
(Book (monograph))
2003
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Peursen, W.T., van (2003)
Cognitieve linguïstiek en exegese. Te-Ef : Blad van de Theologische Faculteit van de R.U. Leiden, 32 (2), pp. 3-10.
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Peursen, W.T., van (2003)
En dan zal Mozes dit lied zingen. Het gebruik van 'az yiqtol voor de verleden tijd (Rara Hebraica II). Alef Beet, 13/1
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Peursen, W.T., van (2003)
Ezechiël. In: Fokkelman, J. & Weren, W. (Eds.), De Bijbel literair: Opbouw en gedachtengang van bijbelse geschriften en hun onderlinge relaties, pp. 249-261. Zoetermeer: Meinema.
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Baasten, M.F.J. & Peursen, W.T., van (Eds.) (2003)
Hamlet on a Hill: Semitic and Greek Studies Presented to Professor T. Muraoka on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Peeters: Leuven.
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Peursen, W.T., van (2003)
Sirach 51:13-30 in Hebrew and Syriac. In: Baasten, M.F.J. & Peursen, W.T. (Eds.), Hamlet on a Hill. Studies in Semitic and Greek Languages Presented to Professor T. Muraoka on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta), 118. , pp. 357-374. Leuven: Peeters.
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Peursen, W.T., van (2003)
Wijsheid van Jezus Sirach. In: Fokkelman, J. & Weren, W. (Eds.), De Bijbel literair: Opbouw en gedachtengang van bijbelse geschriften en hun onderlinge relaties, pp. 475-486. Zoetermeer: Meinema.
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2002
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Peursen, W.T., van (2002)
Morphosyntactic and Syntactic Issues in the Syriac Text of 1 Kings 1. In: Cook, J. (Ed.), Bible and Computer. The Stellenbosch AIBI-6 Conference. Proceedings of the Association Internationale Bible et Informatique "From Alpha to Byte", University of Stellenbosch, 17–21 July 2000, pp. 99-112. Leiden: Brill.
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Peursen, W.T., van (2002)
Morphosyntactic and syntactic issues in the Syriac text of 1Kings 1. In: Cook, J. (Ed.), Bible and Computer: The Stellenbosch aibi-6 Conference. Proceedings of the Association Internationale Bible et Informatique “From Alpha to Byte”, University of Stellenbosch, 17–21 July 2000, pp. 99-112. Leiden: Brill.
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Peursen, W.T., van (2002)
Progress Report: three Leiden projects on the Syriac text of Ben Sira. In: Egger-Wenzel, R. (Ed.), Ben Sira’s God. Proceedings of the Second International Ben Sira Conference, Durham, Ushaw College, 2001 (Beihefte zur Zeitscrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft), 321. , pp. 361-370. Berlin: De Gruyter.
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Jenner, K.D. & Peursen, W.T., van (2002)
Unit delimitations and text of Ben Sira. In: Korpel, M. & Oesch, J. (Eds.), Studies in Scriptural Unit Division (Pericope), 3. , pp. 144-201. Assen: Van Gorcum.
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2001
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Peursen, W.T., van (2001)
Qumran origins: some remarks on the Enochic/Essene hypothesis. Revue de Qumran, 20, pp. 241-253.
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Peursen, W.T., van (2001)
The Alleged Retroversions from Syriac in the Hebrew Text of Ben Sira Revisited: Linguistic Perspectives. In: Lehmann, R.G. (Ed.), Kleine untersuchungen zur Sprachen des Alten Testaments und seiner Umwelt Vol. 2, pp. 47-95. Waltrop: Spenner.
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Peursen, W.T., van (2001)
Wie schreef de Dode-Zeerollen? Plein: tijdschrift voor Theologie, kerk en cultuur, 2/2
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2000
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Peursen, W.T., van (2000)
Conditional Clauses with אם in the Protasis in Qumran Hebrew. In: Muraoka, T. & Elwolde, J.F. (Eds.), Diggers at the Well: Proceedings of a Third International Symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ben Sira (STDJ), 36. , pp. 215-231. Leiden: Brill.
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Peursen, W.T., van (2000)
De ontdekking van de Hebreeuwse tekst van het boek Ben Sira. Alef Beet, 10 (1), pp. 23-30.
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Peursen, W.T., van (2000)
Talen en schriftsoorten in Qumran. Schrift, 191, pp. 139-142.
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1999
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Peursen, W.T., van (1999)
Negation in the Hebrew of Ben Sira. In Muraoka, T. & Elwolde, J.F. (Eds.) Sirach, Scrolls and Sages. Proceedings of a Second International Symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Ben Sira and the Mishnah, held at Leiden University, 15-17 December 1997. Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah (pp. 223-243). Leiden: E.J. Brill.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings) -
Peursen, W.T., van (1999)
The verbal system in the Hebrew text of Ben Sira. Universiteit Leiden, 420pp.(Leiden, Leiden University) T. Muraoka.
(Dissertation)
1997
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Peursen, W.T., van (1997)
Nat—Koopmans—Lettinga—Muraoka: ontwikkelingen in de hebraïstiek van 1936 tot 1996. Nederlands Theologisch Tijdschrift, 51, pp. 194-207.
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Peursen, W.T., van (1997)
Periphrastic Tenses in Ben Sira. In: Muraoka, T. & Elwolde, J.F. (Eds.), The Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ben Sira: Proceedings of a Symposium Held at Leiden University (December 1995) (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah), 26. , pp. 158-173. Leiden: Brill.
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1996
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Peursen, W.T., van (1996)
Guarded, Besieged or Devastated? Some Remarks on Isaiah 1:7–8, with Special Reference to 1QIsa-a. Dutch Studies in Near Eastern Languages and Literatures (Rugtitel: DS-NELL), 1996 (2), pp. 101-110.
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