This volume offers a multi-disciplinary examination into the Hebrew of the Second Temple period as reflected in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Ben Sira, inscriptions, Greek and Latin transcriptions, the Samaritan oral and reading traditions of the Pentateuch, and Mishnaic Hebrew.

Steven E. Fassberg, Ph.D. (1984), Harvard University, is Casper Levias Professor of Ancient Semitic Languages at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His publications include Studies in the Syntax of Biblical Hebrew (1994), and The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Challa (2010).
Prof. Moshe Bar-Asher, Ph.D. (1976), Professor Emeritus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; President, Academy of the Hebrew Language. His publications include: Leshonot Rishonim: Studies in the Language of the Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Aramaic (2012) and Studies in Classical Hebrew (forthcoming).
Ruth A. Clements, Th.D. (1997), Harvard University Divinity School is Head of Publications at the Hebrew University's Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and co-editor of Text, Thought, and Practice in Qumran and Early Christianity (2010).