Maimon Cohen

Maimon Cohen (Hebrew: מאימון כהן; born 1947)[1] is a linguist of the Hebrew language. He is on the faculty of Kaye Academic College of Education in Beersheba, Israel.[2]

Education

In 1987, he completed his dissertation, which dealt with linguistic aspects of the Qere and Kethiv in the Masoretic Text of Scripture.[1] His adviser was Simcha Kogut.[3]

Cohen continued his work on the Qere and Kethiv in the 1990s and received the Nehemya Allony Prize in 1998.[4][5]

Works

In 2007, he published The Kethib and Qere in the Biblical Text: A Linguistic Analysis of the Various Traditions Based on the Manuscript 'Keter Aram Tsova' (Hebrew).

In this book, Cohen set out to answer the following questions:[6]

  • What are the historical roots of the Qere/Kethiv phenomenon?
  • How can the inconsistencies in the phenomenon be reconciled? In one place, the Qere and Kethiv might be exactly the reverse of what they are in a different place.
  • Is there a relationship between the Kethiv and Qere? That is, is one of them consistently an earlier work, and the other consistently a later one?

After four chapters, on orthography, morphology (and morpho-phonology), syntax (and morpho-syntax), and lexicon and style, Cohen presented this conclusion:[7] the vast majority of occurrences of Qere and Kethiv in Scripture reflect different dialects of the ancient Hebrew language (whether earlier. later, or simultaneous). Only a few occurrences are related to the specific style of Scripture; most occurrences have nothing to do with Scripture per se, and instead relate to the Hebrew language as a whole. He writes in the preface[8] that this book would be interesting to people who are concerned with the phenomenon of Qere/Kethiv, people who study Biblical orthography, to Hebrew linguists in general, and Biblical scholars.

References

  1. ^ a b "Dr. Maimon Cohen". Archived from the original on 18 March 2012. Retrieved 2 July 2012.
  2. ^ "Maimon Cohen". Archived from the original on 16 March 2010. Retrieved 2 July 2012.
  3. ^ Cohen. The Kethib and Qere. pp. xii.
  4. ^ Cohen, page xii
  5. ^ "Author Page - Maimon Cohen". magnespress.co.il. Archived from the original on 2 October 2011. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  6. ^ Cohen. p. 11. {{cite book}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. ^ Cohen. pp. 308 ff. {{cite book}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. ^ Cohen. pp. xi. {{cite book}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
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