The Syntax of the Gezer Calendar
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12555517 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A M Honeyman (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1953 |
| Volume | 85 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 53-58 |
| Publication date | 1953-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1356-1863 • E-ISSN: 1474-0591 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0035869x0010588x |
| OpenAlex | W2197913991 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
The list of eight seasons named in the Gezer Calendar is consecutive and complete, and there is no reason for supposing that the word in that inscription has any other than its normal meaning of “lunation, month”, or that the annual cycle at Gezer in the second half of the tenth century before the common era differed from the twelve-month year found in other parts of the North-West Semitic world as well as in Mesopotamia. It follows that some of the periods named in the Gezer list must extend over more than one month, i.e.—since there is no indication in the text of any fraction of a month—over two months at least. H. L. Ginsberg was the first to see that the solution is to be sought in the differing forms and , each of which occurs four times. Ginsberg proposed to treat the latter form as construct singular and the former as a construct dual with waw as a mater lectionis to represent -ō < -ā in the nominative dual construct
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| Citations per year | 0.04 |
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| Citation span | 1999 - 1999 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |