Om den hebraiske numeraliesyntaks i et diakront perspektiv

Abstract

Ancient Hebrew numeral syntax is peculiar in several ways, and varying syntactic patterns are used side by side. It is likely that at least one of the variations is rooted in language change and is older than its counterpart. Many hebraists use such systematic differences to date biblical texts linguistically. But biblical Hebrew texts are extremely ill suited for linguistic dating, and differences in the preferred numeral syntax of certain texts do not change this picture.