Anyone know where I could find the Hebrew Bible with passages divided by linguistic period i.e. Archaic Hebrew, Standard Biblical Hebrew, Late Biblical Hebrew .... or some similar historical continuum?
That would tend to depend upon one's view of such matters as the date(s) of the Pentateuch. Those who opt for a Mosaic composition would have a different view from those who align with critical thinking. The book of Job has also been a topic of discussion with some placing it quite early while others place it late.
Anyone know where I could find the Hebrew Bible with passages divided by linguistic period i.e. Archaic Hebrew, Standard Biblical Hebrew, Late Biblical Hebrew .... or some similar historical continuum? That would tend to depend upon one's view of such matters as the date(s) of the Pentateuch. Those who opt for a Mosaic composition would have a different view from those who align with critical thinking. The book of Job has also been a topic of discussion with some placing it quite early while others place it late.
I was thinking of division only on linguistic grounds for example I know that the Song of Moses and of Miriam are older Hebrew than Ezra, for example. And I've found reasonable historical reconstructions of some of the sound changes in Hebrew. I would expect there to be dialectic divisions as well but I'm willing to work one step at a time.
What sort of sound changes?
Wikipedia was my starting point even though I never quite trust it. Two resources I do trust are:
From Wikipedia, an example of why I'm interested:
Dialect variation in Biblical Hebrew is attested to by the well-known shibboleth incident of Judges 12:6, where Jephthah's forces from Gilead caught Ephraimites trying to cross the Jordan river by making them say שִׁבֹּ֤לֶת ('ear of corn') The Ephraimites' identity was given away by their pronunciation: סִבֹּ֤לֶת. The apparent conclusion is that the Ephraimite dialect had /s/ for standard /ʃ/. As an alternative explanation, it has been suggested that the proto-Semitic phoneme */θ/, which shifted to /ʃ/ in most dialects of Hebrew, may have been retained in the Hebrew of the trans-Jordan. However, there is evidence that the word שִׁבֹּ֤לֶת had initial consonant */ʃ/ in proto-Semitic, contradicting this theory.
Hebrew as spoken in the northern Kingdom of Israel, known also as Israelian Hebrew, shows phonological, lexical, and grammatical differences from southern dialects.The Northern dialect spoken around Samaria shows more frequent simplification of /aj/ into /eː/ as attested by the Samaria ostraca (8th century BCE), e.g. ין (= /jeːn/ < */jajn/ 'wine'), while the Southern (Judean) dialect instead adds in an epenthetic vowel /i/, added halfway through the first millennium BCE (יין = /ˈjajin/). The word play in Amos 8:1–2 כְּלוּב קַ֫יִץ... בָּא הַקֵּץ may reflect this: given that Amos was addressing the population of the Northern Kingdom, the vocalization *קֵיץ would be more forceful. Other possible Northern features include use of שֶ- 'who, that', forms like דֵעָה 'to know' rather than דַעַת and infinitives of certain verbs of the form עֲשוֹ 'to do' rather than עֲשוֹת. The Samaria ostraca also show שת for standard שנה 'year', as in Aramaic.
The guttural phonemes /ħ ʕ h ʔ/ merged over time in some dialects. This was found in Dead Sea Scroll Hebrew, but Jerome attested to the existence of contemporaneous Hebrew speakers who still distinguished pharyngeals. Samaritan Hebrew also shows a general attrition of these phonemes, though /ʕ ħ/ are occasionally preserved as [ʕ].
OK, I was hoping you weren't drawing conclusions from some of the vowel pointings since these were added much later.
