The Fundamentals of Hebrew Accents
Divisions and Exegetical Roles beyond Syntax

This book is designed to serve as a textbook for intermediate Hebrew students and above. Sung Jin Park presents the fundamental features of the Tiberian Hebrew accents, focusing on their divisions and exegetical roles. Providing innovative methods for diagramming biblical texts, the volume explores the two major rules (hierarchy and dichotomy) of disjunctive accents. Students will also attain biblical insights from the exegetical application of the biblical texts that Hebrew syntax alone does not provide. Park's volume shows how the new perspectives on Hebrew accents enhance our understanding of biblical texts.

1. Introduction to Tiberian Hebrew accents; 2. Major rules of Hebrew accents; 3. Substitutions of disjunctive accents (I); 4. Substitutions of disjunctive accents (II); 5. Conjunctive Accents; 6. Minor rules of Hebrew accents; 7. The divisions by Hebrew Accents; 8. The exegetical roles of the divisions.

Sung Jin Park (Ph.D. Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion) is Associate Professor of Biblical Studies and Dean of Asian Studies at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Kansas City. He is the author of Typology in Biblical Hebrew Meter: A Generative Metrical Approach (2017) and numerous academic articles.