Die Anfänge der hebräischen Grammatik and die hebräische Sprachwissenschaft vom 10. bis zum 16. Jahrhundert

The aim of this book is to provide a concise historical survey of linguistic investigation relating to the notion of morphophonemics. The study is essentially historical and thus does not offer its own theory of morphophonemics. Since attention is focused on the development of morphophonemic theory, contemporary work in this area is not of central concern. But the study was undertaken in the hope that a better understanding of earlier work would help to clarify present-day issues.

The present volume reproduces two still unsurpassed accounts of the flourish and eventual decline of Hebrew linguistic scholarship covering the period from the 10th to the 16th century, at a time when Christian scholars and theologians - as a result of the Reformation with its emphasis on the authority of the Bible - began to study Hebrew. These studies are Wilhelm Bacher's Die Anfange der hebraischen Grammatik (Leipzig 1895) and Die hebraische Sprachwissenschaft vom X. bus zum XVI. Jahrhundert (Trier 1892). In addition, this volume contains a bibliography of Bacher's writings, compiled by his pupil and successor Ludwig Blau and supplemented in 1928 by Denes Friedman, and an introductory article by Jack Fellman.

• 1. Preface to the New Edition
• 2. Wilhelm Bacher - pioneer in the history of Hebrew linguistics (by Fellman, Jack)
• 3. Bibliographie der Schriften Wilhelm Bachers (by Blau, Ludwig)
• 4. Nachtrag zu "L. Blau's Bibliographie der Schriften Wilhelm Bacher's" (by Friedman, Denes)
• 5. Die Anfange der hebraischen Grammatik (by Bacher, Wilhelm)
• 6. Die hebraische Sprachwissenschaft vom 10. bis zum 16. Jahrhundert, mit einem einleitenden Abschnitte uber die Massora (by Bacher, Wilhelm)