Open AccessTien eeue leksikografie: Van woordelys tot woordeboek
Author(s) -
W.C. Van Wyk
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
hts teologiese studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.282
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 2072-8050
pISSN - 0259-9422
DOI - 10.4102/hts.v41i2.2135
Subject(s) - lexicography , philology , hebrew , enlightenment , semitic languages , linguistics , vocabulary , history , period (music) , literature , classics , philosophy , arabic , art , sociology , theology , gender studies , feminism , aesthetics
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