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Tien eeue leksikografie: Van woordelys tot woordeboek
HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies | Vol 41, No 2 | a2135 |
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v41i2.2135
| © 1985 Wouter C. van Wyk
| This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 07 January 1985 | Published: 07 January 1985
Submitted: 07 January 1985 | Published: 07 January 1985
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Wouter C. van Wyk,, South AfricaFull Text:
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Ten centuries of lexicography: From vocabulary list to dictionary
The aim of the article is to illuminate the development in the lexicography of Biblical Hebrew through ten centuries from the first vocabularly list to a dictionary based on linguistic, comparative Semitic and encyclopedic principles. The writer treats several stages through the Middle Ages, the Reformation period, the Enlightenment and the Twentieth century up to a contemporary project of South African scholars working on a new Semantic Hebrew 'wordbook'. The conclusion in the article is that the nature of a specific dictionary or vocabularly list, for example philological, theological or linguistic, serves particular, legitimate needs.
The aim of the article is to illuminate the development in the lexicography of Biblical Hebrew through ten centuries from the first vocabularly list to a dictionary based on linguistic, comparative Semitic and encyclopedic principles. The writer treats several stages through the Middle Ages, the Reformation period, the Enlightenment and the Twentieth century up to a contemporary project of South African scholars working on a new Semantic Hebrew 'wordbook'. The conclusion in the article is that the nature of a specific dictionary or vocabularly list, for example philological, theological or linguistic, serves particular, legitimate needs.
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