| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000)
Fiscal Year 2001: ¥2,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000)
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| Research Abstract |
The goal of this research project was to reexamine the isoglosses demarked by W.R. Garr in 1985, based on recent developments in Hebrew linguistics, i.e. studies in Israelian Hebrew by G.A. Rendsburg.
In the fiscal year 2001, Moriya was in the Netherlands and the United States, so Ikeda collected literature related to the project and started the research work by himself.
In April 2002, Prof. A.F. Rainey (Tel Aviv University) visited Japan. Ikeda invited him to Tsukuba for five days for review of Ikeda's work in the preceding year. Ikeda and Moriya took full advantage of Rainey's advice, and continued their work until the end of July. In July-August in the same year, Ikeda and Moriya invited Prof. G.A. Rendsburg (Cornell University) and Sh. Izre'el (Tel Aviv University) to Japan for two weeks, and held meetings and a symposium in Tokyo, Tsukuba and Kyoto in coordination with Dr. D.T. Tsumura (Japan Bible Seminary). In these occasions, Ikeda and Moriya presented some results of their work, while Rendsburg, Izre'el and Tsumura reported on their assignments. They had a fruitful academic exchange and came up with the following new findings:
・ Garr's isoglosses have been revised for twelve linguistic features.
・ It has been proposed as a working hypothesis that there was diglossia in northern Israel with JH as the high variety and IH as the low variety.
・ It has been proved that there was slight differences between northern and southern dialects in pre-biblical Canaanite, which manifest more clearly in Canaano-Akkadian.
The papers read at the symposium in Tsukuba have been published in Orient (Report of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan).
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