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Stuart Creason (Ph.D. Chicago) works in the areas of ancient Hebrew and Aramaic grammar and text interpretation, in particular the application of modern linguistic methods to the data provided by ancient Hebrew and Aramaic texts for the purpose of more refined and accurate grammatical analysis. His dissertation (currently being revised for publication by Eisenbrauns) focuses on the classification of Hebrew verbs by semantic class and the implications of this classification for the delineation of the relationships between the various verbal binyanim (or stems). Recent work includes a forthcoming article on "Aramaic" in The Encyclopedia of the World’s Ancient Languages. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). Teaching responsibilites cover the full range of ancient Aramaic dialects (including Syriac) as well as elementary Classical Hebrew.

Education:

• Ph.D., 1995, University of Chicago (Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations; Department of Linguistics)

Publications

Forthcoming:

• “PQD Revisited” in Festschrift for Gene Gragg. (Chicago: Oriental Institute Publications).
• Lexical Aspect in the Hebrew Verbal System. (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns).

Appeared:

• “Aramaic” in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World’s Ancient Languages. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
• “The Syntax of M) and the Structure of the Marseille Tariff,” Rivista di Studi Fenici 20 (1992):143-59.
• “Discourse Constraints on Null Complements in Biblical Hebrew,” University of Chicago Working Papersin Linguistics 7 (1991):18-47.

Reviews

• An Introduction to Aramaic, by Frederick Greenspahn, in Hebrew Studies 43 (2002):238-40
• Participants in Old Testament Texts and the Translator, by Lénart J. de Regt, in Review of Biblical Literature (June 2, 2000)
• Modern Hebrew for Biblical Scholars, by Takamitsu Muraoka, in Journal of the American Oriental Society 120 (2000):654-55
• The Anterior Construction in Classical Hebrew, by Ziony Zevit, in Journal of the American Oriental Society 120 (2000):262-3
• Discourse Analysis of Biblical Literature. What it is and What it Offers, ed. by Walter R. Bodine, in Journal of Near Eastern Studies 58 (1999):140-41.
• Biblical Hebrew and Discourse Linguistics, ed. by Robert D. Bergen, in Journal of Near Eastern Studies 58 (1999):138-40.
• Janus Parallelism in the Book of Job, by Scott B. Noegel, in Journal of the American Oriental Society 118 (1998):602-3.

Conference Papers

• “PQD Revisited” (Symposium in Honor of Gene Gragg, 2004)
• “The Development of Stressed Short Vowels in Ancient Hebrew” (2000 Arbeitsgemeinschaft Semitistik in der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft)
• “The Interaction of Syntax, Verb Form and Discourse Structure in the Karatepe Inscription” (1995 SBL Annual Meeting)
• “Word Order in Relative Clauses” (1993 SBL Annual Meeting)
• “Split Subjects and Participant Reference in Hebrew Narrative” (Summer Institute of Linguistics Seminar on Discourse Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew, June 1993)
• “Infinitival Complement Structures in Biblical Hebrew” (1992 SBL Annual Meeting)
• “The Semantics of Null Complements in Biblical Hebrew” (1991 SBL Annual Meeting)